Wire to Wire Daily Racing Digest - Saturday, November 8 2025

November 8, 2025 Edition

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Inside This Issue

• Classic of Course Wins Three-Horse Battle to Score in Awesome Banner

• Turf Stakes-Placed Monster Romps in Debut on Synthetic Saturday

• This Day in Florida Thoroughbred History: Skip Away Romps in the Breeders’ Cup Classic

• Florida-breds Around the Country

• Upcoming Milestones: Jockey Leonel Reyes and Jockey Rajiv Maragh

• Chase to the Championship Point Standings

• Florida-breds in Stakes

• Florida Stallion Progeny

• Florida Breeders' List

• W2W Business Place

Florida-bred Classic of Course - ©Lauren King

Classic of Course Wins Three-Horse Battle to Score in Awesome Banner

BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Classic of Course came from off the pace to engage Roar of the Beast and Steppe at the sixteenth pole before getting a half-length advantage under the wire to win the $70,000 Awesome Banner overnight handicap at Gulfstream Park Saturday.

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Florida-bred Monster - ©Lauren King

Turf Stakes-Placed Monster Romps in Debut on Synthetic Saturday

BY GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS OFFICE (Edited)

HALLANDALE BEACH, FL-Arindel's promising juvenile Monster, a maiden winner and twice stakes-placed on turf this year, romped to a four-and-three-quarters-length win in his debut on the all-weather course Saturday at Gulfstream Park.

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Florida-bred Skip Away (red blinkers) in the 1998 Hollywood Gold Cup - ©Benoit

This Day in Florida Thoroughbred History:

Skip Away Romps in the Breeders' Cup Classic

COURTESY BREEDERS' CUP (Edited)

NOVEMBER 8, 1997-Carolyn Hine's Skip Away lived up to his favoritism by scoring a six-length victory in the 14th running of the $4 million Breeders' Cup Classic (Grade 1) at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, Calif.

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Leonel Reyes - ©Ryan Thompson

Milestone

Jockey Leonel Reyes is approaching a personal milestone of 1,000 Thoroughbred career wins in North America (US and Canada). Through the 9th race at Gulfstream Park today, Nov. 8, Reyes was at 997 wins.

Rajiv Maragh - ©Ryan Thompson

Milestone

Jockey Rajiv Maragh is approaching a personal milestone of 2,000 Thoroughbred career wins in North America (US and Canada). Through the 9th race at Gulfstream Park today, Nov. 8, Maragh was at 1,995 wins. He has five scheduled mounts on Sunday, Nov. 9, four mounts on Friday, Nov. 14, and four mounts on Saturday, Nov. 15, all at Gulfstream Park.

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