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Kobe’s Back rallies to top gray trifecta in San Carlos
Kobe’s Back made it two in a row on Saturday at Santa Anita Park when rallying down the center of the track to prevail in the $301,035 San Carlos (G2) under jockey Gary Stevens.
The gray son of Flatter just made his five-year-old debut a half-le ...
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Melatonin opens up late to upset Big 'Cap
Melatonin, whose only previous stakes placing occurred last October in the Eddie D (G3), a turf sprint, lorded over eight rivals at a 1 1/4-mile on the main track Saturday when upsetting the $1,001,035 Santa Anita H. (G1) .
The Big 'Cap appeared ...
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What a View turns out to be lone speed in Kilroe
Saturday’s $400,345 Frank E. Kilroe Mile (G1) at Santa Anita had no shortage of potential pace players – chief among them Midnight Storm and Om – but when none wanted the lead, the only other entrant with early speed, What a View, took the pole pos ...
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Danzing Candy a sweet winner of the San Felipe
Danzing Candy jumped into the Kentucky Derby picture with a smashing two-length victory in Saturday’s $400,345 San Felipe (G2) at Santa Anita, leading wire to wire in his stakes debut. Trained by Cliff Sise Jr., the dark bay colt has no ...
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Tepin runs down Isabella Sings in course-record Hillsborough
If you were an opposing general trying to figure out how to neutralize the shock effect of Tepin’s acceleration, you’d order a ferocious early pace. Stretch out the battlefield, so to speak, and hope that the champion turf mare wouldn’t have quite th ...
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Terra Promessa stings rivals in Honeybee
Stonestreet Stables LLC’s homebred Terra Promessa was making her stakes debut in Saturday’s $200,000 Honeybee (G3) at Oaklawn Park and passed the black-type test with flying colors when pulling off for a 6 1/2-length victory.
The bay daughter of ...
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Destin tops Pletcher exacta in Tampa Bay Derby
Outwork made the pace and Destin finished the job as the Todd Pletcher-trained duo finished one-two in Saturday's $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby at Tampa Bay Downs.
Tracking three wide in third as Outwork set splits of :24.04, :47.88, and 1:11.43, De ...
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Southland - Sunday, March 13
Another very entertaining evening of greyhound racing at the Southland track as Round 2 of the 2016 SOUTHLAND "HOUND MADNESS STAKES" was run on Friday, March 11. There were 64 talented and hard running greyhounds entered in this tremendously exci ...
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Salutos Amigos mows down rivals, repeats in Tom Fool
Salutos Amigos launched his rally off the far turn, closing dramatically down the middle of the Aqueduct inner track, and easily proved best for the second consecutive year in Saturday’s $200,000 Tom Fool H. (G3) , scoring by 2 ½ lengths. Cornelio V ...
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Baciami Piccola rallies for Florida Oaks victory
Amerman Racing LLC’s Baciami Piccola rallied on the outside from the back of the pack to capture her U.S. debut in the $155,000 Florida Oaks (G3) at Tampa Bay Downs on Saturday.
The Equiano filly broke from the 13 post and settled in 10th on the ...
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Probable field of 13 for $900,000 Rebel at Oaklawn
Edited Press Release
Following a flurry of recent additions and subtractions, the field for the $900,000 Rebel (G2) next Saturday at Oaklawn is coming into sharper focus. The race is the final major local prep for the $1 million Arkansas Derby (G ...
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Expecting Brody’s Cause to come back strong in Tampa Bay Derby; playing speed in San Felipe
The Tampa Bay Derby (G2) has a need-the-lead type in Awesome Banner and Outwork figures to be prompting a solid pace as well. Brody’s Cause has displayed an excellent late kick in all three dirt starts and figures to benefit from the projected set- ...
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Louisiana Downs Update
Severe weather and flooding has forced cancellation of the weekend's races at Louisiana Downs ...
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Winless Kentucky Derby Dream Bets Turning Into Nightmare for DeRosa
As exciting as two Kentucky Derby Championship Series races on the same day are, I’m even more excited about two opportunities to qualify for the Kentucky Derby Dream Bet since I’ve yet to pick a winner ( Bistraya in the Risen Star, Zulu in th ...
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Kellie Reilly picks the Tampa Bay Derby & San Felipe for Kentucky Derby Dream Bet
Saturday offers two more chances to qualify for the Kentucky Derby Dream Bet ’s Final Round. If you haven’t qualified in the contest’s first three races, just cash a $15 win bet on Saturday’s Tampa Bay Derby (G2), or San Felipe (G2), and you’ve clea ...
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Mohaymen breezes half-mile for Florida Derby
Edited Press Release
Undefeated multiple Grade 2 winner Mohaymen breezed a half-mile Friday morning in preparation for his next start in the $1 million Florida Derby (G1) on April 2 at Gulfstream Park.
With regular exercise rider Miguel Jaime ...
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Older horses to take center stage
Both thoroughbred and standardbred racing fans who enjoy watching the older horses compete will have a chance to see the world's best over the next two weekends as Yonkers Raceway offers round one of the lucrative George Morton Levy Memorial series f ...
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Midnight Storm can get jump on Bolo, Om in Kilroe Mile
Having opined on the $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby and $400,000 San Felipe (G2) elsewhere , there is still yet more great stakes action on the Tampa Bay Downs and Santa Anita cards on Saturday. Here are few horses that have caught my eye perusing the pa ...
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Kentucky Derby Dream Bet picks for San Felipe, Tampa Bay Derby from James Scully
TwinSpires.com players have two chances Saturday to cash a $15 win bet and qualify for the final round of the $25,000 Kentucky Derby Dream Bet , with the San Felipe (G2) and Tampa Bay Derby (G2) in the spotlight.
The San Felipe will feature only ...
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Kentucky Derby Dream Bet Tampa Bay Derby, San Felipe picks from Vance Hanson
Saturday offers two opportunities to cash a $15 win bet to qualify for the final round of TwinSpires.com's $25,000 Kentucky Derby Dream Bet contest. A competitive group of 10 is expected to start in the $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby (G2), while a small ...
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Kentucky Derby Dream Bet Tampa Bay Derby and San Felipe Stakes picks from Jennifer Caldwell
There are two opportunities on Saturday for those taking part in TwinSpires.com’s $25,000 Kentucky Derby Dream Bet contest to get a winner.
First up is the Tampa Bay Derby (G2) , which features a field of 10 going 1 1/16 miles. About a half-hou ...
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My Favorite Big Caps
Laffit Pincay III said:
"1986 Greinton. Obvious, biased selection, but it was my father's was 5th & final big cap win. Terrific stretch duel w/ Rafael Meza & Herat. Herat was 1,000/1 & you could have fit him in your pocket. ...
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Cal-bred stars among most underrated San Felipe winners
As the main lead-in to the Santa Anita Derby (G1), the 1 1/16-mile San Felipe (G2) has a rich and storied past all its own. First won by an eventual Kentucky Derby (G1) winner in 1954 by Determine, the race has also been taken down by fellow Derby he ...
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Palm Beach $50,000 St Patrick's Invitational
*Superior Tyson*
Picks 5-1-3-8
This is one wide open Final and should be very entertaining. From watching these 8 Finalists the past month, the strongest greyhound coming in looks like Superior Tyson. "Iron Mike" missed out on the He' ...
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Battaglia's Enthusiasm a Part of His Legacy Away From Announcer's Booth
There were no hashtags or top ten lists.
No weepy recollections about how his calls of bottom-level maiden claimers in driving snowstorms in December helped save Christmas.
There was just the announcement and quiet understanding that, yeah, may ...
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Mardi Gras Futurity Set For Louisiana Downs
Rdd Lajollanfastdash is the morning-line choice in Saturday's Mardi Gras Futurity The first official futurity of the year, the $273,054 Mardi Gras Futurity (RG2), is set for Saturday, March 12 at Louisiana Downs . From 111 juveniles that ran ...
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2016 Kentucky Derby Pedigrees: Zulu
Zulu, best of the rest behind Mohaymen in the Fountain of Youth (G2), is among the notable sons of Bernardini on the 2016 Kentucky Derby trail. Shagaf has just been the subject of a pedigree profile, while Greenpointcrusader is due for his own ...
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Jensen likely to skip Louisiana Derby in favor of Spiral
Edited Press Release
Trainer Larry Jones’ homebred Jensen is likely to skip the $1 million Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby (G2) on March 26 at Fair Grounds and instead ship to Turfway Park for the $500,000 Spiral (G3) on April 2 for his breeder-ow ...
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2016 Kentucky Derby Pedigrees: Shagaf
We continue our pedigree profiles of the 2016 Kentucky Derby hopefuls with Gotham (G3) hero Shagaf, who has joined fellow Shadwell Stable colorbearer Mohaymen as a prominent contender.
Unlike Mohaymen, a $2.2 million auction purchase, Shagaf i ...
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Remembering the 2007 Tampa Bay Derby; Street Sense & Any Given Saturday duel to the wire
Saturday’s $400,000 Tampa Bay Derby (G2) features the return of juvenile Grade 1 winner Brody’s Cause, a highly-ranked Kentucky Derby (G1) contender who was last seen rallying for third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1).
Others with Kentucky ...
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Ortiz brothers thriving at Aqueduct; Shagaf passes Gotham test in good fashion
BY DICK POWELL
Winter racing has not been bad at Aqueduct this year with fewer cancellations and much better weather. The four-day-a-week schedule for the first three months of 2016 have enabled field sizes to maintain and scheduled closures at P ...
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Churchill Downs partners with Ticketmaster for Kentucky Derby ticket resale
Edited Press Release
Churchill Downs Racetrack (CDRT) has launched the Kentucky Derby Ticket Exchange by Ticketmaster, the only online resale marketplace to provide fans with a secure, reliable and convenient place to buy and resell tickets to th ...
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Mid-March Madness For Harness Bets Across North America
At mid-March we are getting closer to official features and series, heading into April, hopefully, with all of our winter profits for springtime action. This weekend we diverge our features’ attractions, beginning Thursday, March 10 with Freehold and ...
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Yonkers and Rosecroft offer Solid Cards
This Saturday night Yonkers Raceway will offer local older pacers one last chance to prep for the ultra-tough and lucrative George Morton Levy Memorial Series that gets under way the following Saturday evening, then on Sunday evening Rosecroft Racewa ...
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Destin, Tepin star on Tampa Bay Derby Day
Destin captured the Sam F. Davis (G3) last out at Tampa Bay Downs and on Saturday will try to parlay that into a victory in the $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby (G2) with jockey Javier Castellano holding the reins.
The Tampa Bay Derby is part of the Roa ...
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San Felipe comes up tough with Mor Spirit & Exaggerator as top draws
The most accomplished 3-year-old on the West Coast, Nyquist, will remain on the sidelines as he readies for a match-up with Mohaymen in the April 2 Florida Derby (G1), but Saturday’s $400,000 San Felipe (G2) at Santa Anita still has major Kentucky ...
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Effinex favored in soft renewal of the Big 'Cap
With most of the nation's leading older males either preparing for the Dubai World Cup (G1) later this month or presently sidelined, Saturday's renewal of the $1 million Santa Anita H. (G1) has come up rather soft. That might turn out to be good n ...
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Marquee Miss continues Oaklawn journey in Honeybee
Marquee Miss will go attempt to move her record to three-for-three on Saturday at Oaklawn Park when lining up against five rivals in the $200,000 Honeybee (G3) going 1 1/16 miles.
The bay daughter of Cowboy Cal is trying to sweep the three-year- ...
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Kentucky Derby Report (3/9); Shagaf grinds out Gotham
Shagaf rallied to a 1 ¼-length decision in Saturday’s Gotham (G3) at Aqueduct, remaining unbeaten in his third career start, and is now headed to the $1 million Wood Memorial (G1) on April 9.
The final time proved disappointing, nearly a second s ...
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Remington Park 2016 Quarter Horse Meet
Bv Midnite Express won the 2015 Heritage Place Futurity at Remington Park Visit remingtonpark.com for more information on upcoming stakes and special events. ...
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Ralis set to make seasonal bow in Rebel
Edited Press Release
Grade 1 winner Ralis will make his sophomore debut in the $900,000 Rebel (G2) on March 19 at Oaklawn Park, trainer Doug O'Neill said Tuesday night.
O'Neill said Mario Gutierrez will have the mount on the Southern Californ ...
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Shagaf overcomes bias in Gotham as speed mostly dominates on Aqueduct inner track
AQUEDUCT NOTEBOOK
There was a single graded event at Aqueduct this past week.
Gotham S. (G3) : Shadwell Stable’s homebred SHAGAF (Bernardini) moved three wide into the lane and finished best of all to remain unbeaten for conditioner Chad Brow ...
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Kentucky Derby Will Miss One True Star
5. Mo Tom - Watch the race. Pay attention to the 2-Mo Tom. Trip handicappers should be all over this guy. Mo Tom could have won this race if not for what many perceived as a speed bias in the Risen Star. What you have to like is how he went inside ...
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Zenyatta, Rachel Alexandra lead 10 nominees for Hall of Fame
Edited Press Release
Four jockeys, four Thoroughbreds and two trainers comprise the 10 finalists on the National Museum of Racing's 2016 Hall of Fame ballot, as selected by the Museum's Hall of Fame Nominating Committee. The finalists are: jockey ...
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Tuesday Opener at Rosecroft
When Rosecroft Raceway kicked off its 2016 spring meet on Tuesday evening, much of the focus was on a pair of races on the latter one-third of the card and a quartet of older pacers raced superbly over the Maryland five-eighths mile oval. A field of ...
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Celebrating John Henry’s birthday; a beloved Grand Warrior, Underdog & Horse with Attitude
BY TAMMY SITERS
Forty-one years ago, on March 9, 1975, a small, ill-tempered and unfashionably-bred colt was born on Golden Chance Farm in Paris, Kentucky. He was also born back at the knees, a fault which can make horses unable to handle the st ...
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Songbird continues to dominate like a superstar; ‘no idea how good she actually may be’
SANTA ANITA NOTEBOOK
A superstar topped the stakes action over the weekend of the winter/spring meeting at Santa Anita.
Santa Ysabel S. (G3) : Fox Hill Farms’ champion SONGBIRD (Medaglia d’Oro) sped to the lead and was never challenged in pos ...
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Polar River unlikely to contest Kentucky Oaks
The three-year-old filly Polar River, who has gained a worldwide following during her four-race career in Dubai, has essentially been ruled out of the $1 million Kentucky Oaks (G1) on May 6 by trainer Doug Watson.
Polar River has won her four race ...
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Get Away Day at Sam Houston Race Park
Today is closing day at Sam Houston Race Park, and it’s a corker of a 12 race card with an average of 11 entries per race.
For fans of multi-race wagers in particular, Sam Houston has an extremely friendly wagering menu with rolling doubles ...
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Racing mourning the loss of Norman Casse
Edited Press Release
The racing world is mourning the passing of Norman E. Casse after a long illness on Sunday at the age of 79. A co-founder of Ocala Breeders' Sales Company in 1974, he served as chairman of the OBS board for 28 years until ste ...
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Songbird favored at 3-1 on Kentucky Oaks Future Wager morning line
Edited Press Release
Fox Hill Farms ’ unbeaten 2-year-old filly champion Songbird (#18 ) is the solid favorite in a strong group of 3-year-old fillies listed as individual betting interests in the 2016 pool of Churchill Downs Racetrack’s Kentu ...
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Unbeaten Kentucky Derby contenders Mohaymen, Nyquist head Future Wager Pool 3
Edited Press Release
A pair of unbeaten stars in Shadwell Stable ’s Fountain of Youth (G2) winner Mohaymen (#13) and Reddam Racing LLC ’s reigning American 2-year-old champion Nyquist (#15) , the winner of the San Vicente (G2) at Santa Anita ...
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Which Palm Beach Final Is On Your Bucket List?
*Pat C Rendezvous*
If I could only choose one Final to be at, I'd have to go with the Derby. The history of it all and the longer distance just beams with excitement and is diffidently on my bucket list to attend.
Someday.
Which Stake ...
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Dover Card offers some fast miles
While Yonkers Raceway might offer the best overnight cards of the weekend on Saturday nights, the best program to kick off the work week begins each Monday evening at Dover Downs where pacers of all ages have the chance to display their ability for l ...
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Dubai Carnival beads: World Cup night landscape after Super Saturday, III
Concluding the discussion from Vol. I on the Dubai World Cup and Vol. II on the other dirt races ...
Postponed photo courtesy Dubai Racing Club/Andrew Watkins.
Thankfully, the Meydan turf course was a comparative haven on Super Saturday, ...
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Dubai Carnival beads: World Cup night landscape after Super Saturday, II
Continuing the discussion from Vol. I, focusing on the Dubai World Cup...
Polar River photo courtesy Dubai Racing Club/Andrew Watkins.
UAE DERBY
The 3-year-old male division has been weak all Carnival, an impression that wasn’t dispe ...
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Dubai Carnival beads: World Cup night landscape after Super Saturday, I
Special Fighter photo courtesy Dubai Racing Club/Andrew Watkins.
Super Saturday left more questions than answers on the dirt, thanks to a blatant track bias that not merely carried, but propelled, front runners on the inside. Anyone trying to imp ...
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The Kentucky Derby field: Will Points Ever Not Matter?
Maybe it’s the former editor in me or that I’m just a persnickety fusspot in general, but one of my pet peeves on the Triple Crown trail is anyone saying fillies have to “face males” to run in the Kentucky Derby.
People need to stop saying that f ...
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Joseph O'Brien calls it a day on riding career
Joseph O'Brien, a leading retained rider for Coolmore and his father, trainer Aidan O'Brien, has told Racing Post that his abbreviated career as a jockey is over.
The 22-year-old's career was always expected to be brief due to his height and wei ...
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Steve Asmussen's Top 5 Horses
5. Tapiture - Under jockey Rosie Napravnik, Tapiture was oh so close to taking home the Breeders cup Dirt Mile in 2014. Goldencents held off Tapiture, but, man, it was a close race! Some may believe that Tapiture doesn't belong on this list. I thin ...
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Five Grade 1s highlight Santa Anita spring meet; Vanity shortened
Edited Press Release
With the $500,000 Gold Cup at Santa Anita (G1) poised to serve as its highlight, Santa Anita's 2016 Spring Meeting, which begins May 5 and runs through July 10, will offer fans and horsemen 34 stakes, with 16 graded events th ...
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Southland - Monday, March 7
What an exciting day it was at the Southland track as the 2016 SOUTHLAND "HOUND MADNESS STAKES" competition got underway on Sunday. There were 64 talented and hard running greyhounds who were entered and who were after the stakes title. I selecte ...
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Weekend Pick 3 Recap--3/7/16
Another race and another paid workout for Songbird who just continues to crush her foes. This race was almost a carbon copy of her last win where she goes to the front, receives not much pressure and then buries her competition on the turn. This time ...
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Cards at Dover Downs and Rosecroft
Warmer temperatures are expected to meet horses, drivers and fans on Monday and Tuesday as Dover Downs again offers another solid, lucrative Monday card and Rosecroft Raceway kicks off its 2016 winter-spring meet on Tuesday. A compact field of six o ...
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Older pacers continue to impress
As mentioned before, while many thoroughbred racing fans are scouting the various Triple Crown prep races to see which sophomore colts - or possibly fillies - might peak on the first Saturday in May, standardbred racing fans are following the numerou ...
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Unbeaten Shagaf doing well after Gotham win; Lady Eli continues training for comeback
Edited Press Release
Shadwell Stable's undefeated Gotham (G3) hero Shagaf came out his 1 1/4-length victory in good order, according to trainer Chad Brown at Aqueduct on Sunday afternoon.
"He looks great this morning, he ate up well," Brown r ...
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Sunland Derby, Oaks canceled: the effect on Kentucky Derby & Oaks points picture
Under quarantine since the cases of EHV-1 were diagnosed in January, Sunland Park is calling off its marquee races, as we know them, on the road to the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Kentucky Oaks (G1).
The Blood-Horse ’s Jeremy Balan reports that the S ...
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Miami Valley’s $30 Winner Nabbed; Freehold Co-Favorites In $77 Pick 3; Tweets ‘Tween Blogs Continue
Again this week, Twinspires Twitter members were treated to special picks for Buffalo Raceway. The March 2 sextet of suggested contenders was tweeted from @FrankCotolo on Twitter and retweeted by @twinspires and @BuffaloRaceway. This week, one of six ...
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Grand Tito parlays good trip into Mac Diarmida victory
Grupo 7C Racing Stable’s Grand Tito surged to a clear lead off the far turn and easily withstood the late bid of Kaigun in Saturday’s $200,000 Mac Diarmida (G2) at Gulfstream Park, scoring by 1 ¼ lengths. Now a two-time graded stakes winner for tra ...
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Songbird turns Santa Ysabel into cakewalk
Perhaps somewhere, in an obscure dimension of alternate reality, or an unknowable corner of the multiverse, there was an upset in the $101,380 Santa Ysabel (G3) . But not in our universe.
Logic, form, and class reigned supreme as undefeated champ ...
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Saturday Meydan card proves revealing
Thoroughbred racing fans had to arise bright and early on Saturday morning to catch the Super Saturday card from Meydan Race Course in Dubai or perhaps wait until the early afternoon to watch the replays, but the seven-race program proved to be somew ...
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Blofeld catches Stanford in final jumps, returns to spotlight in Gulfstream Park H.
It took 16 months but Blofeld is back, displaying the winning form that made him such a heralded 2-year-old prospect in Saturday’s $500,000 Gulfstream Park H. (G2) . The 4-year-old colt was forced to the inside in upper stretch and rallied dete ...
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Shagaf overcomes speed-favoring track, takes Gotham
Shadwell Stable will enter the final round of Kentucky Derby (G1) preps next month in very solid shape after its undefeated colt Shagaf turned in an impressive stretch rally to take Saturday's $400,000 Gotham (G3) at Aqueduct.
By winning the 1 1 ...
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Mor Spirit tops San Felipe workers
Edited Santa Anita press release by Ed Golden
With the Man Upstairs set to unleash a deluge around 8 o’clock tonight, the Men Downstairs flooded the track with horses getting in their final major licks before next Saturday, when Santa Anita pres ...
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Olorda leads Brown trifecta in The Very One
Chad Brown-trained horses comprised half of the six-horse field, but all of the top three placings, in Saturday's $150,000 The Very One for fillies and mares at Gulfstream Park. Not only did Olorda defeat odds-on favored stablemate Dacita and anoth ...
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Special Fighter smashes track record as Keen Ice flops at Meydan
Special Fighter photo courtesy Dubai Racing Club/Andrew Watkins.
American shippers have underscored the quality of US dirt form over the course of the Dubai Carnival, but that trend was abruptly halted when Keen Ice was a distant seventh in Satur ...
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A Kentucky Derby Dream Bet on a Horse Without Kentucky Derby Dreams
Just because the connections of Withers Stakes winner Sunny Ridge don't have aspirations of going to the Kentucky Derby with their Holy Bull gelding doesn't mean those betting on him don't.
It's understandable that New Jersey racing stalwart Denni ...
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2016 Hound Madness Stakes Begins
Welcome to what is sure to be an exciting day of highly entertaining greyhound racing at the Southland track as the 2016 Southland "Hound Madness Stakes" competition gets underway on Sunday. There are 18 races on the program for the twilight card ...
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James Scully’s Kentucky Derby Dream Bet selection
The Editorial staff is playing along for fun in the $25,000 Kentucky Derby Dream Bet at TwinSpires.com and Saturday’s $400,000 Gotham (G3) at Aqueduct serves as the lone qualifier this weekend. Players need to cash a $15 win bet on one of the nin ...
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Meydan Offers Morning Card
Thoroughbred racing fans will have to rise at the crack of dawn on Saturday morning to catch the Super Saturday card at Meydan Race Course in Dubai. Saturday's seven-race card, designed as a prep for the ultra-lucrative Dubai World Cup card, will st ...
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The Dispatch Box: Flintshire comes to US; Solow, Duramente bound for Dubai
Flintshire photo courtesy of NYRA/Coglianese Photography/Susie Raisher .
Before getting into the victorious comebacks of Dubai World Cup night threats Duramente and Solow, I’ve got to comment on the international bombshell that was lobbed to US fa ...
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Kentucky Derby Dream Bet Gotham Stakes pick from Vance Hanson
After shooting fish in a barrel selecting Mohaymen to take last week's $400,000 Fountain of Youth (G2), the pressure is now off now to cash a $15 win bet to qualify for the final round of TwinSpires.com's $25,000 Kentucky Derby Dream Bet contest. ...
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Political Saturday Night at Los Alamitos
Leading Quarter Horse sire Apollitical Jess has four runners in Saturday's Elan Again Handicap Apollitical Jess was an AQHA Champion Quarter Horse. He is retired and as a stallion, producing excellent crops of runners. Four of his offspring wi ...
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Southland - Saturday, March 5
Welcome to another Saturday doubleheader of highly entertaining and exciting greyhound racing at Southland as there are 18 races on the program for both the matinee and evening cards for your viewing and wagering pleasure. This week MoneyMaker Mik ...
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Kellie Reilly picks the Gotham Stakes for Kentucky Derby Dream Bet
After siding with Gun Runner and Mohaymen in the first two races of the Kentucky Derby Dream Bet ’s Qualifying Round, the law of averages is bound to catch up with me in Saturday’s Gotham (G3) at Aqueduct. So consider that a reader warning, or for ...
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Effinex settles in at Santa Anita ahead of Big 'Cap
Edited Press Release
Effinex, the probable favorite for the $1 million Santa Anita H. (G1) on March 12, arrived safely from Florida early Thursday evening and was bedded down in trainer Eoin Harty's barn to prepare for the prestigious 1 1/4-mile ...
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Five underrated Gotham winners that should not be forgotten
Like most New York features the Gotham (G3), which will be renewed at Aqueduct on Saturday, has a rich and storied past. However, it's impact on the classics has lessened since the days when it preceded the Wood Memorial (G1) by two weeks and the Ken ...
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Meydan, Dubai, Saturday 3/5 Preview
[Meydan, 13.35] and he’s the pick. The official feature, the Group I Maktoum Challenge, has been contested by the eventual World Cup winner five times, and Godolphin have used it well. Therefore their Watershed [Meydan, 14.55] must be respected, ...
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Battaglia to hang up mic, takes role as Turfway Park Associate Vice President
Edited Press Release
Mike Battaglia, whose association with Turfway Park stretches back almost half a century, will step down from the announcer’s booth to assume the role of associate vice president at the Northern Kentucky Thoroughbred race tra ...
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Live Meydan Blog – Saturday, March 5th
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What I’m looking for on Dubai’s Super Saturday
The action-packed card at Meydan on “Super Saturday” can be approached two ways: first, for the betting opportunities at hand, and second, for its impact on the March 26 Dubai World Cup night blockbuster.
Let’s go methodically through the program ...
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Remembering the 1992 Gotham; ‘Lure & Devil His Due slugging it out for the entire mile’
The Road to the Kentucky Derby series takes another swing through Aqueduct Saturday for the $400,000 Gotham (G3), with a well-matched field of eight sophomores lining for the 1 1/16-mile test on the inner track.
Shagaf, a Bernardini colt who share ...
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SOUTHLAND - Friday, March 4
Welcome to another Friday doubleheader of highly entertaining and exciting greyhound racing at Southland as there are 18 races on the program for both the matinee and evening cards for your viewing and wagering pleasure. This week MoneyMaker Mike ...
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Mohaymen continues to answer every question; Bernardini represented by a pair of up-and-coming runners
BY DICK POWELL
MOHAYMEN (Tapit), once again, answered every question posed to him in last Saturday’s Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2) at Gulfstream Park and right now, he looks unstoppable on his march to the Kentucky Derby (G1).
What will make t ...
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Geroux believes Da Big Hoss can compete anywhere in the U.S.
Edited Press Release
Jockey Florent Geroux believes that Da Big Hoss, winner of last September’s $600,000 Kentucky Turf Cup (G3) at Kentucky Downs, can compete with any horse in the country at 1 1/2 miles on turf.
The 5-year-old son of Lemon ...
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NTRA announces dates for Eclipse Awards, NHC
Edited Press Release
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) on Thursday announced the dates for next year’s renewals of its marquee events, with the 46 th Annual Eclipse Awards set for January 21 at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale ...
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The day Hialeah served chicken with its Flamingo
They mercilessly booed the horses, owners, trainers, and jockeys for the better part of half an hour. Even Bing Crosby, on hand to present the winning trophy, was not immune to the vitriol of the disgruntled 30,011 in attendance on a gorgeous, 80-deg ...
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Promising Prices For Exotics And Spot Plays Around The Ovals
We would like our bettors to enter March like the proverbial lion and continue to roar, so let’s begin the month that ends with strong late-winter series as spring stakes races loom boldly with features and our signature horses-to-watch list (H2W). A ...
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Judd Kearl and Omar Reyes Top Standings at Hialeah Park
Omar Reyes, leading rider for the 2016 Hialeah Park Quarter Horse meet Reyes does not regret any of the sacrifices he is making at this stage of his career. "Right now, my camper is my home, but that's okay," said Reyes. "I know if I work hard ...
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