Blood-Horse | 12 years ago
About 130 horses are expected to work on the Palm Meadows Training Center track during the under tack show.
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Nine Probables Likely for Louisiana Derby
Blood-Horse | 12 years ago
As of March 21, a total of nine probables are expected for the $1 million Louisiana Derby (gr. II) at Fair Grounds on April 1.
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Breeders’ Cup Challenge expanded to 73 races
DRF | 12 years ago
Matt Hegarty
The Breeders’ Cup Challenge, a series of races guaranteeing berths in the 15 races held during the organization’s year-end event, will be expanded from 68 races last year...
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Racetrack Gaming Bill Fails in Minnesota
Blood-Horse | 12 years ago
The Minnesota Senate State Government Committee March 19 voted 8-5 against a measure that would have authorized casino-style gambling, including slot machines, at Canterbury Park and Running Aces Harness Park.
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The PETA Distortion: How Luck’s Cancellation Was Far from Ethical
National Headlines | , Paulick Report | 12 years ago
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Motion Looking to Spiral Into the Derby Again
Blood-Horse | 12 years ago
Graham Motion is back on the Derby trail with recent maiden winner Went the Day Well, who will race next in the Vinery Racing Spiral Stakes (gr. II) March 24.
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Rebel Stakes recap
2012 Triple Crown | 12 years ago
Jon and Joel discuss three key races from the weekend, including the Rebel Stakes (G2). Which of the 3 winners – Secret Circle, Gemologist and Street Life – move up the TCI Top 10? You may be surprised.
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Aqueduct: No plans for Marilyn’s Guy after Excelsior Stakes win
DRF | 12 years ago
David Grening
Adam Coglianese/NYRAMarilyn's Guy wins the Grade 3, $150,000 Excelsior Stakes at Aqueduct.The day after Marilyn’s Guy beat San Pablo by a nose in the Feb 18 As Indicated Stake...
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Turfway Expects Large Field for Vinery Spiral
Blood-Horse | 12 years ago
A full field is possible for the $500,000 Vinery Racing Spiral Stakes (gr. III) March 24, Turfway Park officials said. The race highlights a four-stakes program at the Kentucky racetrack.
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Ohio expedites slot machine rules
DRF | 12 years ago
Matt Hegarty
The Ohio Lottery Commission on Monday passed several rules governing slot machines at Ohio racetracks after Gov. John Kasich signed an executive order allowing the rules to go into e...
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Wood Memorial Likely Next Stop for Gemologist
Blood-Horse | 12 years ago
Undefeated colt likely will have his final Kentucky Derby prep at Aqueduct
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Dominguez Injured in Spill at Aqueduct
Blood-Horse | 12 years ago
Jockey Ramon Dominguez was transported to North Shore University Hospital with an apparent collarbone injury March 18. He was unseated when his mount Mob Wife fell shortly before the wire in the eighth race at Aqueduct.
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Oaklawn Park: Secret Circle will return to go for sweep in Arkansas Derby
DRF | 12 years ago
Secret Circle is being pointed to the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby following his victory in Saturday's Grade 2 Rebel at Oaklawn Park.HOT SPRINGS, Ark. &nda...
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Hansen returns to work tab with easy half-mile breeze
DRF | 12 years ago
Byon King
Churchill DownsHansen worked a half-mile in 50.40 seconds at Churchill Downs Trackside on Sunday.LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Juvenile champion Hansen breezed an easy half-mile in 50.40 seco...
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Turf Paradise: Tequila Factor overcomes tough post in Tempe Handicap
DRF | 12 years ago
Michael Hammersly
Shawn Coady/Coady PhotographyTequila Factor wins Saturday’s $35,000 Tempe Handicap at Turf Paradise.Tequila Factor, a two-time stakes winner on grass who even got a crack at t...
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Tiz Miz Sue all business in G3 Azeri S.
Breeding Farm News | , WinStar Farm | 12 years ago
Tiz Miz Sue's powerful stretch run carried the 5-year-old daughter of Tiznow to a three length victory in the $150,000 Azeri S...
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Santa Anita: Patience pays off with Include Me Out in Santa Margarita
DRF | 12 years ago
Jay Privman
Benoiy PhotoInclude Me Out was not bothered by the sloppy conditions of the Santa Margarita.ARCADIA, Calif. – Even though Include Me Out was coming off the biggest race of her c...
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Secret Circle Hands Baffert Another Rebel Win
Blood-Horse | 12 years ago
Secret Circle handed trainer Bob Baffert his third consecutive victory in the Rebel Stakes (gr. II), taking over from Scatman in mid-stretch and holding off a late run by longshot Optimizer to score the $500,000 event.
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Gulfstream Park: Musical Romance gets up to win Inside Information
DRF | 12 years ago
Mike Welsch
Bob CoglianeseMusical Romance (5), with Juan Leyva up, wins the Inside Information.HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - The champ is back!
Eclipse Award winner Musical Romance rebounded from her...
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Union Rags Works Easy Five Furlongs
Blood-Horse | 12 years ago
Florida Derby favorite Union Rags went to the track at Palm Meadows Training Center the morning of March 17 for an easy five-furlong workout in preparation for his final Kentucky Derby prep.
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Alpha ’60-40′ for Wood Memorial, says McLaughlin
DRF | 12 years ago
David Grening
Barbara D. LivingstonAlpha, with Ramon Dominguez riding, wins the Withers.Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin is undecided on where his top 3-year-old, Alpha, will make his next start, but in...
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Santa Anita Notes: Amazombie beats the rain with drill
DRF | 12 years ago
Brad Free
Shigeki KikkawaAmazombie worked five furlongs in 59 seconds on Friday at Santa Anita.ARCADIA, Calif. – Amazombie beat the rain and the sun early Friday at Santa Anita, where he wo...
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Gemologist Sparkles in Gulfstream Triumph
Blood-Horse | 12 years ago
Undefeated Gemologist got his 3-year-old campaign underway in sharp fashion at Gulfstream Park March 16, pulling away from grade I winner Currency Swap to win an allowance race by seven lengths.
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Aqueduct: Leave of Absence looks tops in Time Tested Stakes
DRF | 12 years ago
David Grening
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Rick Violette is one trainer who won’t be happy that Aqueduct’s inner track season will come to a conclusion on Sunday.Violette, who splits his ...
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Inner track specialists vie in Excelsior
Michael Compton | 12 years ago
Saturday’s $150,000 Excelsior Stakes (G3) at Aqueduct is the final stakes before action moves to the main track there on March 21. The race has attracted a competitive cast of inner track specialists, we well as some new faces on the scene.
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Champion Informed Decision Delivers Colt
12 years ago
Informed Decision, a 2009 Eclipse champion, delivered her first foal, a colt by Street Cry, at Arthur B. Hancock III's Stone Farm in Paris, Ky., on March 11.
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Santa Anita to postpone San Luis Rey
Michael Compton | 12 years ago
Due to a forecast calling for heavy rain over the weekend, Santa Anita racing officials have made the decision to postpone until Sunday, March 25, the Grade 2, $150,000 San Luis Rey Stakes, which was originally scheduled to be run this Sunday. The San Luis Rey, for older horses at 1 ½ miles on turf, […]
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Fair Grounds: Havre de Grace in gear for New Orleans Ladies
DRF | 12 years ago
Marcus Hersh
Alexander Barkoff/Hodges PhotographyHavre de Grace has had a strong series of workouts for her comeback.Rachel Alexandra, the 2009 Horse of the Year, spent the winter of 2009-2010 in...
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Secret Circle and Sabercat to meet in Rebel
Michael Compton | , Top Horse Racing News Story | 12 years ago
Secret Circle, winner of a division of the Southwest Stakes (G3) on Feb. 20, returns to Oaklawn Park for Saturday’s $500,000 Rebel Stakes (G2) to face a competitive group of 3-year-olds, including highly regarded Sabercat (G3).
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Currency Swap and Gemologist meet at Gulfstream
Michael Compton | 12 years ago
Currency Swap and Gemologist, two 3-year-olds with designs on the classic races, are set to clash in an allowance test at Gulfstream Park on Friday. Both horses are making their seasonal bows in the $80,000 race.
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Santa Margarita: Ellafitz Seeks Grade I Glory
12 years ago
On a three-race stakes winning streak for trainer Bob Baffert, Ellafitz will go for her first grade I victory against five opponents in the $300,000 Santa Margarita Invitational Stakes (gr. I) March 17 at Santa Anita.
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Havre de Grace to face four in Ladies
12 years ago
Horse of the Year Havre de Grace, set to make her 2012 debut in the $150,000 New Orleans Ladies Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots March 17, drew post position 2 and will face four opponents.
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Strong day closes out OBS March sale
Michael Compton | , Top Horse Racing News Story | 12 years ago
A colt by War Front fetched the top price of $800,000 to lead the way during Wednesday’s session of the OBS March sale in Ocala, Fl., and top the two-day offering. The second-highest price of the session was a Tiz Wonderful colt who sold to Stonestreet for $525,000.
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Greg Avioli resigns from The Stronach Group
Michael Compton | 12 years ago
Greg Avioli, president and CEO of The Stronach Group, Entertainment Division, has resigned his position, effective April 1, 2012.
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Kentucky approves account-wagering licenses
DRF | 12 years ago
Matt Hegarty
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission unanimously approved licenses for eight account-wagering companies at a meeting on Wednesday after a three-month r...
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Currency Swap, Gemologist Clash at Gulfstream
12 years ago
Unbeaten 3-year-old colts Currency Swap and Gemologist will make their respective 2012 debuts in the third race March 16 at Gulfstream Park.
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Animal Kingdom gets bone scan on injured leg
DRF | 12 years ago
Animal Kingdom won his first start in eight months on Feb. 18. and was injured and forced out of the Dubai World Cup...
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Across the board increases at OBS March
Michael Compton | , Top Horse Racing News Story | 12 years ago
Frank Fletcher Racing Operations went to $485,000 to secure the bid on hip No. 180, Ado, an Empire Maker filly, on Tuesday to top the opening session of the OBS March sale in Ocala. The filly, consigned by Harris Training Center, agent, was the last horse through the ring during the sale’s opening day.
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Slots plan puts Ontario racing in peril
DRF | 12 years ago
Bill Tallon
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The Ontario Horse Racing Industry Association is battling on after Ontario’s government instructed the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation to wind ...
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Spring Hill Farm Out With Knee Fracture
Blood-Horse | 12 years ago
Spring Hill Farm, who finished fourth in the March 10 Tampa Bay Derby (gr. II), suffered a right knee fracture and will have surgery at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington March 14.
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Adios Charlie to Stand at Ocala Stud
Blood-Horse | 12 years ago
Adios Charlie, winner of the 2011 Jerome Stakes (gr. II), has been retired from racing and will stand the immediate 2012 breeding season at J. Michael O'Farrell Jr.'s Ocala Stud Farm. His fee is $3,500 stands and nurses.
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Sabercat ready to start campaign for Winchells, Asmussen
12 years ago
Mary Rampellini
Barbara D. LivingstonTrainer Steve Asmussen looks over Sabercat last fall at Churchill Downs. Sabercat returns to racing in Saturday's Grade 2 Rebel Stakes.HOT SPRINGS, Ark. &ndas...
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Empire Maker filly brings $485,000 bid at first session of OBS Sale
DRF | 12 years ago
Glenye Cain Oakford
The Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company saved the highlight for last Tuesday when the opening session’s final offering, an Empire Maker half-sister to stakes winner Pass...
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Currency Swap and Gemologist entered at Gulfstream
DRF | 12 years ago
Jay Privman
Currency Swap and Gemologist, two of the nation’s elite 2-year-olds from last year, are entered to make their first starts of the year on Friday at Gulfstream Park in a one-mile...
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Four horses earn first stakes wins at OBS
Michael Compton | , Top Horse Racing News Story | 12 years ago
Ocala is often viewed as a training and breeding hub. On a sun-splashed, Monday afternoon, Ocala proved a racing center as well with the annual OBS Champions Day of racing.
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Fed Biz pulled off trail by Baffert
DRF | 12 years ago
Jay Privman
Fed Biz, who missed the San Felipe Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita with a hind-end issue, is still not traveling properly and will be pulled off the trail to the May 5 Kentucky Derb...
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Animal Kingdom out of Dubai World Cup
DRF | 12 years ago
Mike Welsch
Barbara D. LivingstonAnimal Kingdom came out of a Saturday workout "sore," said his trainer, Graham Motion.Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom will not compete as planned in the $10 ...
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‘Izzy’ rules Las Flores
Michael Compton | 12 years ago
Izzy Rules notched her fourth consecutive victory on Sunday, winning the $100,000 Las Flores Stakes (G3) at Santa Anita. As jockey Edwin Maldonado gained his first stakes win at Santa Anita, the 5-year-old Florida-bred mare simply blew away her graded stakes opposition while covering the distance in 1:14.59 after paving the way through robust fractions […]
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Dayatthespa Earns Grade in Herecomesthebride
Blood-Horse | 12 years ago
Odds-on Dayatthespa became a graded stakes winner when she held off Regalo Mia in the final strides to capture the $150,000 Herecomesthebride Stakes (gr. IIIT) by a neck on the Gulfstream Park turf course March 11.
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