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October 2008 - Posts

• Keeneland sale: Good market for bargains
  Oct 31 2008, 07:56 PM

  LEXINGTON, Ky. - What a difference a year makes. In 2007, a strong yearling auction season preceded good results at the Fasig-Tipton and Keeneland November mixed sales. Fasig-Tipton's average and median both went up, while Keeneland put up a record... Post Reactions

• Smooth Air will point to Sunshine Millions
  Oct 31 2008, 07:49 PM

  MIAMI - Smooth Air, who concluded his successful 3-year-old campaign with a seventh-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita, boarded a van from Calder bound for Ocala, Fla., on Friday morning and a month of rest and relaxation on... Post Reactions

• Alysheba welcomed to Kentucky Horse Park
  Oct 31 2008, 07:48 PM

  LEXINGTON, Ky. - Two-time champion and 1988 Horse of the Year arrived Friday at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, where he was greeted by several hundred of his fans. Read More... Post Reactions

• Big Brown stud fee set at $65K
  Oct 31 2008, 07:20 PM

  Three Chimneys will stand Big Brown for $65,000 when the 2008 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner enters stud at the Midway, Ky., farm in 2009. Read More... Post Reactions

• Speedy Gemswick Park tops Tempted cast
  Oct 31 2008, 05:25 PM

  Gemswick Park, third-place finisher in the Frizette (gr. I) a month ago in her stakes debut for trainer Tom Albertrani, returns in a more comfortable spot as the likely favorite in the $100,000 Tempted Stakes (gr. III) at Aqueduct Park on Sunday. The... Post Reactions

• Highly-touted Friesan Fire tries Nashua
  Oct 31 2008, 05:22 PM

  When Vinery Stables transferred a handful of horses in training from Steve Asmussen into the barn of Larry Jones earlier this summer, graded stakes winner Kodiak Kowboy grabbed much of the attention as the highest profile colt changing hands. But when... Post Reactions

• Chilukki: Copper State hopes to break through
  Oct 31 2008, 12:57 PM

  Millennium Farms’ Copper State, a bridesmaid in four consecutive stakes efforts, will finally try to get over the hump Sunday at Churchill Downs when she takes on 10 rivals in the $150,000 Chilukki Stakes (gr. II), a one-mile main track test for fillies... Post Reactions

• Two try to bounce back in Iroquois
  Oct 30 2008, 09:19 PM

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Forgive two horses their respective last race, and all of a sudden the Iroquois Stakes looks more promising than it might otherwise. Capt. Candyman Can and Brave Victory ran off to impressive maiden victories in New York two starts back... Post Reactions

• Baffert sends out a pair for Sharp Cat
  Oct 30 2008, 09:17 PM

  INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The big crowds and the national television audience are gone, and so is the lucrative prize money. A week after trainer Bob Baffert won two seven-figure Breeders' Cup races at Santa Anita on the same day, he has more modest goals... Post Reactions

• Long Island: J'ray looks daunting off last two
  Oct 30 2008, 09:14 PM

  OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Based on the results of the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf, J'ray might have been competitive in that $2 million race had her connections opted to run. Instead, J'ray will have to settle for a consolation prize of sorts... Post Reactions

• Desert Code might try Hong Kong Sprint
  Oct 30 2008, 09:11 PM

  INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Desert Code, the upset winner of the inaugural $1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Santa Anita on Oct. 25, may go after another seven-figure turf sprint this fall - the $1.54 million Hong Kong Sprint on Dec. 14. Trainer David... Post Reactions

• Wiggins has two live fillies in Pocahontas
  Oct 30 2008, 09:09 PM

  LOUISVILLE, Ky. - It's been a while since owner Dolph Morrison and trainer Hal Wiggins witnessed the exploits of Morris Code, a filly sprinter who earned more than $700,000 when dominating her division throughout the Midwest in the late 1990s. Morrison... Post Reactions

• Nashua: Tagg says Hello Broadway training big
  Oct 30 2008, 09:05 PM

  OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Hello Broadway wilted under the bright spotlight of the Grade 1 Champagne last month. Sunday, he will try to make amends when he runs back in an interesting renewal of the Grade 3, $100,000 Nashua Stakes at Aqueduct. A half-brother... Post Reactions

• NTRA Thoroughbred Notebook: Oct. 30, 2008
  Oct 30 2008, 05:55 PM

  News and notes from around the Thoroughbred racing world Read More... Post Reactions

• Henrythenavigator retired, to stand at Ashford
  Oct 30 2008, 11:58 AM

  Henrythenavigator, a dual European classic winner and runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), has been retired for stallion duty in 2009 at Ashford Stud in Versailles, Kentucky. Read More... Post Reactions