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September 2009 - Posts

• Morvich Win points California Flag to Turf Sprint
  Sep 30 2009, 11:44 PM

  California Flag is right back where he was a year ago - bound for the $1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint on Nov. 7 after a front-running in the $100,000 Morvich Handicap at Santa Anita on Wednesday. Last year, California Flag won the Morvich, but... Post Reactions

• Icon Project skips Beldame to run in Spinster
  Sep 30 2009, 02:10 PM

  Icon Project, who would have been the favorite for Saturday's Grade 1, $600,000 Beldame at Belmont Park, will skip that race and instead run in the Grade 1, $500,000 Spinster Stakes at Keeneland on Oct. 11, trainer Marty Wolfson said Wednesday. Read... Post Reactions

• Mine That Bird gets feel for Santa Anita surface
  Sep 29 2009, 05:43 PM

  Mine That Bird was not expected to dazzle anyone Tuesday morning in his first autumn workout over the Santa Anita racing surface, and the Kentucky Derby winner performed to expectations. Jockey Joe Talamo and Mine That Bird came onto the track in a busy... Post Reactions

• Misremembered works for Indiana Derby
  Sep 29 2009, 05:40 PM

  Misremembered, winner of the Grade 2 Swaps in summer at Hollywood Park, is on his way to Indiana for the $500,000 Indiana Derby on Saturday. Trainer Bob Baffert said Victor Espinoza would ride the colt. Misremembered worked a half-mile Tuesday in 47.80... Post Reactions

• Ohio Derby field still in flux
  Sep 29 2009, 04:49 PM

  A surprisingly large field of 13 3-year-olds was entered Tuesday for this weekend's Grade 2, $150,000 Ohio Derby, although the trainers of some horses have said they intend to cross-enter in the Indiana Derby, which offers a far bigger purse on the... Post Reactions

• Mi Sueno for the season after workout injury
  Sep 29 2009, 04:09 PM

  Mi Sueno, the top-ranked 2-year-old filly in California, is done for the season and her future racing career is in jeopardy after suffering a condylar fracture of the right cannon bone in a workout Tuesday morning at Hollywood Park. Trainer Eric Gulliot... Post Reactions

• Better Talk Now retired with injury
  Sep 29 2009, 04:05 PM

  There will be no swan-song race for Better Talk Now. Better Talk Now, the 10-year-old gelding and earner of $4.35 million in purse money, was officially retired from racing Tuesday after developing a fresh tear in the suspensory ligament of his left hind... Post Reactions

• Joe Talamo on The Tonight Show: 9/29/09
  Sep 29 2009, 12:38 PM

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• Jockey Club Gold Cup: Dry Martini on track
  Sep 28 2009, 06:45 PM

  The connections of Dry Martini are hoping the affinity the 6-year-old gelding showed for Belmont Park's main track in the spring and summer is evident again this weekend when he runs in the Grade 1, $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup. Dry Martini recorded... Post Reactions

• Trainer Bill Mott eyes big weekend
  Sep 28 2009, 06:40 PM

  Trainer Bill Mott will have one favorite and two intriguing longshots to run in Saturday's Grade 1 stakes events here. In the $600,000 Flower Bowl Invitational, Mott will send out Dynaforce, who won this race last year and who comes off a solid 1... Post Reactions

• Calvin Borel reuniting with Mine That Bird
  Sep 28 2009, 06:37 PM

  Jockey Calvin Borel has been confirmed as Mine That Bird's rider for the $300,000 Goodwood Stakes at Santa Anita on Oct. 10, trainer Chip Woolley said over the weekend. The Grade 1 Goodwood, a major prep for the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic... Post Reactions

• Churchill Downs to install permanent lights
  Sep 28 2009, 06:35 PM

  Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., has begun soliciting bids for the installation of permanent lights so the track can schedule live race cards at night by the start of the 2010 spring meet, the track's parent company announced Monday. The plan to... Post Reactions

• Del Mar receives Alliance accreditation
  Sep 28 2009, 01:19 PM

  The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) announced that the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, Calif., has been fully accredited by the NTRA Safety and Integrity Alliance following a complete review of all racing operations at the facility... Post Reactions

• Winning Machine takes B.C. Derby at Hastings
  Sep 27 2009, 11:54 PM

  Trainer Doris Harwood shipped up from Emerald Downs to finish first and third with Winning Machine and Noosa Beach in the Grade 3, $275,000 British Columbia Derby at Hastings Sunday. With Gallyn Mitchell aboard for the first time, Winning Machine broke... Post Reactions

• Good day for long shots at Monmouth
  Sep 26 2009, 11:34 PM

  On a unique day of racing Saturday at Monmouth Park, in which the track ran six National Steeplechase Association races and five traditional flat races, speed dominated in the track's four stakes races. Read More... Post Reactions