horse race
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s weekly politics newsletter for closely monitoring the horse race between Trump’s approval rating and the Washington, D.C., temperature in Celsius.
From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026
The Duke of York Stakes, a horse race run each year at York, is now the Minster Stakes.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Winning the Derby changes anyone’s life, but it’s magnified when you make history, as DeVaux did by becoming the first female trainer to win the world’s most famous horse race.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
For example, there have been no debates and none are planned at the moment, and the lack of polling means that horse race coverage is nonexistent.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
The track, flooded with by far the largest crowd ever to attend a horse race in San Francisco, was overwhelmed.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
