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September 2009 - Posts

• Grade 1 Catchup
  Sep 25 2009, 08:45 PM

  Bob Baffert has rocketed to the lead among trainers, winning seven Grade 1's since the 4th of July to take over the national lead with eight G1's for the year... Read More... Post Reactions

• BC Schedules
  Sep 22 2009, 11:44 AM

  The race lineups announced Monday for the two Breeders' Cup cards Nov. 6 and 7 include a couple of pleasing tweaks to last year's schedule... Read More... Post Reactions

• Juvenile Midpoint
  Sep 19 2009, 01:55 PM

  Saturday's G2 Futurity and G2 Matron at Belmont are the fourth of seven pairs of graded stakes for 2-year-olds that comprise the NYRA... Read More... Post Reactions

• Midshipman's Return
  Sep 17 2009, 04:46 PM

  When Midshipman makes his first start since the BC Juvenile in Friday's 3rd race at Belmont, he will be coming off the second longest layoff by any returning 2-year-old champion... Read More... Post Reactions

• Weekend in Canada
  Sep 14 2009, 01:53 PM

  The Breeders' Cup may have set a dangerous precedent with its hollow and self-serving offer to enrich purses by $1 million if Rachel Alexandra... Read More... Post Reactions

• Rainy Return to Belmont
  Sep 11 2009, 11:10 AM

  It's a wet and windy opening day for the 33-day Belmont fall meeting, with today's four scheduled grass races already rained on to the main track... Read More... Post Reactions

• Day 36: 9/7/09
  Sep 07 2009, 12:10 PM

  Pletcher's seven include Aikenite and One Note Samba in as wide-open a renewal of the Hopeful Stakes as you'll ever see... Read More... Post Reactions

• Day 35: 9/6/09
  Sep 06 2009, 12:09 PM

  Dozens of horses have won Eclipse Awards without competing in the Breeders' Cup, including Horse of the Year titlists John Henry, Spend a Buck, Holy Bull, Charismatic, Point Given and Mineshaft... Read More... Post Reactions

• Day 34: 9/5/09
  Sep 05 2009, 12:21 PM

  Woodward, Forego, Spinaway, Hopeful, trainer and jockey titles all up for grabs in the next 54 hours during the final three days and 34 races of Saratoga 2009... Read More... Post Reactions

• Day 33: 9/4/09
  Sep 04 2009, 01:21 PM

  Today's pick-6 sequence at Saratoga looks a lot like yesterday's, only harder -- and you remember how easy yesterday was... Read More... Post Reactions

• Day 32: 9/3/09
  Sep 03 2009, 11:49 AM

  11:50 am: It's an all-filly and almost-all-turf $209k double-carryover at Saratoga today,with race 5-10 all for fillies and mares, the last five of them on... Read More... Post Reactions

• Day 31: 9/2/09
  Sep 02 2009, 01:13 PM

  Smart and Fancy, 14 for 26 in her career, has finished first, second or third an astounding 24 times in a row.... Read More... Post Reactions