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| Manuel Franco, who will ride Modernstone in the Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes, gets some last-minute instruction from an assistant to trainer Bill Mott. |
| Topic, one of twelve fillies and mares that will compete in the Grade 3 race, prepares to have her tattoo read by the horse identifier. |
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| Aigue Marine, Kendrick Carmouche up, wins the Robert Dick Stakes, one and three eighths miles on the turf. Topic (#11) finished second but was disqualified to ninth for interference in the stretch. |
| Aigue Marine, foaled in 2009 in Great Britain, is trained by Christophe Clement. |
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| Service For Ten walks in the paddock before the Carl Hanford Memorial Stakes, the second of the day's four stakes races. |
| Alex Cintron will ride Balance of Power in the Carl Hanford. |
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| Vegas No Show is trained by Kelly Breen for George and Lori Hall. |
| The horses head to the track. |
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| I'm Steppin' It Up (#8, right), ridden by Jose Caraballo, wins the Carl Hanford Memorial Stakes, one mile and 70 yards on the dirt for 3-year-olds and up. Balance of Power (#1) is second. |
| Carol Cedeno leaves the track after finishing fifth on Indian Jones. |
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| Debt Ceiling stands quietly for the horse identifier before the Oh Say Stakes. |
Larry Jones saddles Coup de Grace, one of seven three-year-olds that will contest the six-furlong race. |
| Snuggley Bear will also give it a shot. |
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| Coup de Grace, left, passes Debt Ceiling (#5) before running down Favorite Tale (#9) to win the Oh Say Stakes by a neck. |
| Coup de Grace, ridden by Kerwin Clark, is owned by Rick Porter's Fox Hill Farm. |
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| Pixie Dust enters the paddock for the Grade 2 Delaware Oaks. |
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| Image of Anna (#6) and Vero Amore (#7) are also in the field of three-year-old fillies. |
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| Edwin Rivera has the mount on #5, Aibhilin. |
Kendrick Carmouche rides Joint Return (#4) for trainer John Servis. |
| Victor Corrasco is aboard #2, Lady Paradime. |
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| Honey's Ryan, Kerwin Clark up, passes Pixie Dust to take the lead at the start of the one and one-sixteenth mile Delaware Oaks. |
from left, Image of Anna, Joint Return, Fortune Pearl and Aibhilin race toward the finish. |
| Fortune Pearl wins it. Joint Return finished second and Aibhilin (right) was third. |
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| Fortune Pearl, a daughter of Mineshaft, is trained by Graham Motion and was ridden to victory in the Delaware Oaks by Trevor McCarthy. |
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