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...arena has continued to see its numbers drop as the juvenile and yearling sales have been off around 25-30 percent. This year's Keeneland September sale offers a slightly smaller catalog of 5,189 horses, down from 2008's record total of 5,555. But with the...
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For the second consecutive racing season, Keeneland Race Course is cutting stakes purses, the Lexington track announced Thursday.
Seven fall stakes are being cut by a total of $275,000, which follows a $600,000 cut in stakes purses during the latest
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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Keeneland Race Course in Lexington will reduce the total purses for fall stakes races by $275,000, track officials announced Thursday.
The fall meet will be held Oct. 9 to 31.
• The Grade II Thoroughbred Club of America, a six-furlong race for fillies
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OPELOUSAS -Jockey Shane Seller has announced his comeback after a more than 4 _ year retirement due to a severe knee injury. The now 42-year-old native of Erath, La. is set to make his return on Thursday, July 2 in the first race aboard the Mark Guidry
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Relatively manageable area gas prices this summer about $2.70 a gallon for regular unleaded, according to GasBuddy.com make one-tank getaways a smart vacation choice.
Museums, concerts, festivals, heritage tours, sports events and amusement parks are
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Racing starts in New York at 11:35 Eastern time, so go early if you want to make the thrid race.
It's a maiden race in which you have a triple whammy entrant. Trained by Zito, he raced at Keeneland, and he is a grandson of Star de Naskra. Allof these
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finished third in both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness: "I saw (Rachel Alexandra) breezing at Churchill before the Oaks and I knew she was a super star ... she's a filly for the ages."
Yes, it's early to start thinking about Horse of the Year. But
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Horses are headed to the 141st Belmont Stakes in two weeks from several different angles, including a few from the Preakness and at least three who ran in the Kentucky Derby, but skipped the second leg of the Triple Crown.
Then there’s Charitable Man,
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Horses are listed in post-position order, not according to program number.
Comments: JOE SIX PACK looked good winning last out and appears to be in a good spot for the repeat score. FIDGETY FELON drops back in for a tag and will be tough at this
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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NEW YORK — Charitable Man got back into the 3-year-old picture Saturday, pulling away to a 3 3/4-length win in the $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park.
It was the third win in four starts for the colt trained by Kiaran McLaughlin. Unbeaten in
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Stephen Skaggs does not come from a Kentucky horse racing family. Although he grew up in Lexington, epicenter of the thoroughbred universe, no one in his family patronizes Keeneland Race Course or pays attention to the Kentucky Derby.
But Skaggs is an
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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A month ago, trainer Todd Pletcher was hoping just to get one horse in the Kentucky Derby: Florida Derby runner-up Dunkirk. With only $150,000 in graded-stakes earnings, the colt appeared in danger of missing the cut if more than 20 horses were entered.
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"I'm going to sit down and try and (answer) them one day," said McCarthy.
There are the other participants in this 135th Kentucky Derby, who can't help but smile when you bring up the name of the $20,000 claimer who won the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes at
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Twelve years later, Kelly Breen still remembers everything about the day. The big crowd. The stylish race-goers, so many of them dressed up. The buzz that was palpable the moment he stepped foot inside Churchill Downs.
And, of course,
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Stormalory, whose career has blossomed since being placed on the turf, and Bittel Road, seeking to resurrect his promising career after a detour to synthetic surfaces, will clash with two-time stakes winner Battle of Hastings in a deep edition of the
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list. We knew he might make since the latter part of January. So we just stuck with our plan, and that was to do it, if possible. We ran fourth, so we kind of rethought it. But as time went on, they lost a few horses (to injuries). Then they lost
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El Paso Times
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...employee Frances White applauds as members of the 194th Armor Brigade from Ft. Knox enter the paddock during Military Day at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., Sunday, April 19, 2009. Photo by Matt Goins Matt Goins - Members of the 194th Armor Brigade from Ft....
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Advice spoiled Square Eddie's return to racing on Saturday, roaring from last to first to take the $300,000 Lexington Stakes at Keeneland.
Advice, trained by Todd Pletcher and owned by WinStar Farm, overtook Square Eddie with a
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Barre Montpelier Times-Argus
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MLB: Lidge blows first save since '07 Brad Lidge blew his first save in 54 opportunities, allowing four runs, including a three-run homer to Kevin Kouzmanoff, and the Padres beat the Phillies 8-5. He hadn't blown a save opportunity since Sept. 23, 2007
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Advice spoiled Square Eddie's return to racing, roaring from last to first to take the $300,000 Lexington Stakes yesterday at Keeneland in Kentucky.
Advice, trained by Todd Pletcher and owned by WinStar Farm, overtook Square Eddie with a spectacular
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Jockey Garrett Gomez and Advice, center, charged from last to first to win the Lexington Stakes, the last major prep race for May's Kentucky Derby.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) Advice spoiled Square Eddie's return to racing on Saturday, roaring from last to
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Advice has spoiled Square Eddie's return to racing, roaring from last to first to take the $300,000 Lexington Stakes at Keeneland.
Advice, trained by Todd Pletcher and owned by WinStar Farm, overtook Square Eddie with a spectacular
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Unlike his opponents today, Square Eddie doesn’t need any graded-stakes earnings to make it to the Kentucky Derby starting gate in two weeks.
Instead, the Grade II $300,000 Lexington Stakes offers the Smart Strike colt a chance to get back his
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The Lexington Stakes (G2) on Saturday at Keeneland Race Course is all about money and prestige.
Racing in the Kentucky Derby for a 3-year-old's owner and trainer is a dream. Winning is comparable to winning the lottery. Sire and dam fees explode on
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Afternoon Stroll, a 50-1 shot, won the $100,000, Grade III Appalachian Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Keeneland yesterday.
Afternoon Stroll had the lead in midstretch, gave it up to Hot Cha Cha and then fought back to win by a nose
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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Eclipse Award-winning jockey Garrett Gomez will be aboard champion Stardom Bound in the May 1 Kentucky Oaks, IEAH Stables head Michael Iavarone said today.
Stardom Bound had been ridden by Mike Smith last year and in her first three starts this year,
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With two weeks to go before entries are taken for the May 2 Kentucky Derby, all the high-profile horses whose owners and trainers want to run are virtually assured of getting in the field.
Highly regarded Florida Derby runner-up Dunkirk should easily
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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LEXINGTON - The Kentucky Derby will mark its 135th anniversary with one of the most compelling story lines in the fabled history of the nation's premier race.
Thomas McCarthy, a 75-year-old prostate cancer survivor who struggled in anonymity in
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Cincinnati Enquirer
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Tom McCarthy has been training racehorses for more than 45 years, doing so as quietly as it can be done. He never had many horses or one that did anything too special, and he had no reason to believe that would ever change. Among the smallest of the
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Tulsa-owned Charitable Man will not run in the 135th
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Longshot General Quarters, ridden by Eibar Coa, cruised to victory over favorite Hold Me Back in the $750,000 Grade I Toyota Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky.
The victory in the Blue Grass sets up General Quarters for a trip
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -John Gosden was a young trainer in California more than 20 years ago when the chatty Englishman asked Hall of Famer Jack Van Berg if he really thought underachieving Alysheba could win the 1987 Kentucky Derby.
"He said 'John I
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Sportvision Inc., whose 1st and Ten Line, K-Zone and car-tracking virtual graphics have become staples of football, baseball and NASCAR telecasts, is bringing its technology to horse racing on Saturday.
TVG will sport the technology company's virtual
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Can Stardom Bound, who had her streak of five consecutive Grade I victories snapped in Saturday's Ashland Stakes at Keeneland, even come close to beating Rachel Alexandra in the Kentucky Oaks on May 1? Watch this running of Sunday's Fantasy Stakes at
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"I'm just trying to make a negative a positive," said Duff.
Duff said he isn't sure whether he experiences a 30 percent drop in business during Keeneland meets because customers would rather spend the afternoon at the track or because they are trying
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Hooh Why pulled a huge upset Saturday in the Ashland Stakes at Keeneland, foiling Stardom Bound's attempt at a sixth consecutive Grade 1 win.
With substitute jockey Corey Lanerie aboard, Hooh Why took the lead at the quarter pole and
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LEXINGTON — Hooh Why pulled a huge upset Saturday in the Ashland Stakes at Keeneland, foiling Stardom Bound's attempt at a sixth consecutive Grade I win.
With substitute jockey Corey Lanerie aboard, Hooh Why took the lead at the quarter pole and never
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ARCADIA, Calif. -- Amid all the talk that today's Santa Anita Derby boils down to whether stretch-running Pioneerof the Nile can catch favored The Pamplemousse, NBC racing analyst Gary Stevens offered this:
"I don't think either one of them will
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Rick Dutrow hasn't changed his tune, just the inspiration for the song.
A year after Big Brown's failed chase for the Triple Crown, Dutrow is training another leading 3-year-old. But this time it's a filly -- Stardom Bound, who has
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Sometimes being frank can be construed as being brash, even cocky. No doubt that Rick Dutrow rubbed some people the wrong way last year during his Triple Crown quest with Big Brown, but those close to him say he was simply being
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...what the player wants," HANA president Jeff Platt said in a news release announcing the inaugural rankings earlier this year. Keeneland president Nick Nicholson said he was particularly excited about the objectivity of the ranking system. "It's quite an honor,"...
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Lane's End Farm has dropped its sponsorship of the Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland Race Course, ending 12 years of being the title sponsor of the Grade 1 race for 2-year-olds.
The Breeders' Futurity is run on the first Saturday in October. A Grade 1
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FLORENCE, KY. — Hold Me Back roared to the lead in the stretch and won the $500,000 Lane's End Stakes on Saturday at Turfway Park, but even the trainer of the long shot winner was not sure what his next step would be.
Co-favorites Bittel Road and West
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FLORENCE, Ky. (AP) -Hold Me Back roared to the lead in the stretch and won the $500,000 Lane's End Stakes on Saturday at Turfway Park.
Co-favorites Bittel Road and West Side Bernie did not hit the board in a race that has produced numerous Kentucky
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FLORENCE, Ky.—Hold Me Back roared to the lead in the stretch and won the $500,000 Lane's End Stakes on Saturday at Turfway Park.
Hold Me Back, trained by Bill Mott and ridden by Kent Desormeaux, had won a maiden race at Arlington Park and an allowance
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Having been devised to break down transatlantic boundaries, the Kentucky Derby Challenge could have found no better ambassador than the man who saddled the winner. How ironic, then, that Mafaaz himself could yet come to distil fresh schisms within the
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The Independent
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The John Gosden-trained Mafaaz ran down pacesetter Sochcahtoa in deep stretch and held off a late charge by Spring of Fame to win yesterday's inaugural running of the $115,000 Kentucky Derby Challenge Stakes by a neck at Kempton Park near London. In
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When Ventura was nosed at the wire in last weekend's Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita, it marked the first loss in 2009 by a 2008 Breeders' Cup champion.
Stardom Bound, winner of the 2008 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, is 2-0 this year and is being pointed
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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. -- After Duke of Homberg won last month's Hallandale Beach Stakes, trainer Tom Albertrani thought about waiting to run the horse until the Transylvania Stakes at Keeneland on April 3.
But with the horse doing so well - not to
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ARCADIA, Calif. -- Zenyatta, the unbeaten champion older female of 2008, is likely to make her 2009 debut at the Hollywood Park spring-summer meeting, possibly in the $150,000 Milady Handicap on May 23.
Trainer John Shirreffs said Wednesday that
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