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DAY 11 of 57 ESTIMATED ATTENDANCE 2,750 ON-TRACK HANDLE $198,549 OFF-TRACK HANDLE $2,576,999 TOTAL HANDLE $2,775,548 TODAY’S SIMULCAST SCHEDULE Aqueduct, 11:20 a.m.; Laurel Park, 11:30 a.m.; Gulfstream Park, 11:35 a.m.; Tampa Bay, 11:35 a.m.; Fair Grounds, 1 p.m.; Golden Gate, 2:45 p.m.; Santa Anita, 3 p.m.; Turfway Park, 4:15 p.m.; Penn National 5 p.m.; Delta Downs, 5:40 p.m.; Charles Town, 6 p.m.; Daytona Beach (greyhounds), 6:25 p.m.; Derby Lane (greyhounds), 6:30 p.m.; Sam Houston, 7:10 p.m.

THURSDAY’S STARS

No star was brighter Thursday than jockey Alex Canchari, who rode three winners on the nine-race card. Canchari took Dingdingdingding ($15, $7.20, $4.60)to the winner’s circle in the second, a 5½-furlong $12,500 claiming race. He came back to win the seventh, a 1-mile maiden-special race on betting favorite Eskimo Kisses ($4.20, $2.60, $2.20) before capping his three-win day on Burtnjoe ($15.40, $6.80, $5.20) in the ninth and final race. Canchari wasn’t the only multiple-winning jockey Thursday. Luis Contreras won the third, a 6-furlong race for 4-year-olds and up on Conquest Hiosilver ($6.70, $2.60, $2.80) and also the featured eighth, a maiden special weight race with a $76,000 purse, aboard Title Ready ($11.40, $5.60, $4.40). Trainer Brad Cox also picked up a pair of winners on the day. Those wins came on Electric Avenue ($5, $4.80, $3.20) in the fourth and on Sworn Silence ($4, $3.40, $3) in the sixth.

EXCLAMATION POINT SET

Exclamation Point, a recently named half-brother to champion and 2017 Arkansas Derby winner Classic Empire, is scheduled to make his career debut in Saturday’s fourth race at Oaklawn, a maiden special weights event for 3-year-olds at 6 furlongs. Trained by Brad Cox, Exclamation Point is a homebred for Steve and Brandi Nicholson, who also bred Classic Empire, an Eclipse Award-winning 2-year-old male after winning 4 of 5 starts, including the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. “I’m excited to get him started,” Cox said Wednesday afternoon. “He’s doing really well. We think he’s a horse that’s going to do his best running around two turns.”

THE KING COTTON

Two-time champion Ivan Fallunovalot bids for millionaire status in the $125,000 King Cotton Stakes for older sprinters Saturday. Trained by Tom Howard of Hot Springs, Ivan Fallunovalot has earned $961,403 in a 29-race career that includes 17 victories. After being claimed for $25,000 at the 2014 Oaklawn meeting on behalf of Lewis Mathews of Bismarck, Ivan Fallunovalot won the 6-furlong King Cotton in 2015 and 2016 and finished fourth last year. A victory Saturday would make Ivan Fallunovalot the third Texas-bred to reach $1 million in career earnings.

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