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Million-dollar earning Gigante (Not This Time), named 2025 Virginia-bred Horse of the Year, headlines a slate of Virginia Thoroughbred Association (VTA) award winners whose connections will receive hardware for their efforts on Saturday, Mar. 14 at Colonial Downs, the track said in a release on Tuesday. The trophy presentations will take place on the winner's circle stage between races during the Virginia Derby Day card in New Kent, and are presented by the VTA and Virginia Racing Commission.   The other winners are as follows: Turf Horse: Gigante Older Male:...

Ahead of a weekend which offers no fewer than 26 graded stakes races spread across three days, the GIII Matron Stakes at Aqueduct offers a warm up of sorts as 2-year-old fillies sprint six furlongs on the outer turf course in New York. Snow Face Princess (Midshipman) made headlines over the summer, taking the listed Bolton Landing Stakes at Saratoga before topping the Fasig-Tipton August Digital Sale where Winchell Thoroughbreds picked her up for $775,000. Making her first start for trainer Steve Asmussen at Kentucky Downs, she settled for a...