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June 2008 - Posts
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Medication positives and (negative) EPO tests, nothingness and debates over the definition of blogging -- reading the latest DRF+ column by James Quinn is a tonic, because it's about handicapping -- specifically, about pairs of figures as predictors...
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Are you kidding? Send Big Brown to the Arc? We already know that Big Brown can handle the grass. He's bred for it and he broke his maiden by 11 1/4 lengths on the grass last year at Saratoga.... And, obviously, Big Brown has the quality and class...
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Photo by Adam Coglianese/NYRA. ... in the making. Music Note stumbled out of the gate, lost a hind shoe, raced three wide into the stretch tracking a pokey pace (:24.83, :48.66, and 1:13.09), and still the talented and well-bred filly easily pulled away...
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Suffolk Downs takes a zero-tolerance stand on slaughter: Sam Elliott, the track's vice president for racing, has informed the leadership of the New England Horseman's Benevolent and Protective Association that any trainer found to have sold a...
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Man of Iron, the 2-year-old half-brother of Rags to Riches, Jazil, and Casino Drive by Giant's Causeway, debuts today in the first at the Curragh for Aidan O'Brien and Tabor et al: He faces a tough introduction though, because Alyazwa was only...
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In a letter to the editor in the Thoroughbred Daily News, Team Valor founder Barry Irwin responds to Michael Iavarone's announcement that IEAH horses will race drug-free (except for Lasix) and his invitation to other owners to make the same committment...
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... something it should be possible to write about the G1 Suburban Handicap: The Suburban drew a ... field of eight, all in search of their first Grade 1 stakes victory. Grade 1 travesty, indeed. At least the Suburban drew a field big enough for trifecta...
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Thanks to Ernie for passing along a link to the Blood-Horse article on trainer Rick Dutrow's latest infraction, a positive for twice the legal level of clenbuterol in a horse named Salute the Count, second place finisher in the G3 Aegon Turf Sprint...
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Jason Shandler puts Curlin at #7 on a list of the top 10 of the past 30 years, while Jon White crams the Horse of the Year in at #72 on a list of the 100 all-time greats. Me? I'm reserving judgment until his career concludes.... Read More...
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What's a degenerate gambler to do when he's off on a Monday but his wife's working? Why, bet Finger Lakes and Fort Erie, of course! Anyone reading who has tips for the Monday tracks (a list that also includes Delaware, Philly, Prairie, Colonial...
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- But you'll want to join this one: Dana of GbG announces the formation of the Self Appointed Fan Committee, which I had a small part (kindly, Dana gives me too much credit) in pulling together this weekend. While it might seem to be a response to...
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Harry Aleo (in the cowboy hat) with Lost in the Fog in the Golden Gate winner's circle after the 2005 Golden Bear. Photo by ibison4. Reports the Blood-Horse: Harry J. Aleo, the crusty Northern California Thoroughbred owner who burst into national...
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Transit of Venus is 3-1 on the morning line in the first at Belmont this afternoon, making his second start for trainer Gary Contessa after finishing third at the same level on Met Mile day. This was a bad beat for me: I played Transit of Venus at 5-1...
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After seeing what the pick four paid on Tuesday at Colonial Downs (races four through seven), I've decided to focus on the track in the hope of securing a similar overlay using two 9-to-2 horses and two favorites. After taking care of my husbandly...
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Settling in late to watch today's house hearing on horse racing and catch Randy Moss saying Thomas Jefferson used to keep a stable of racehorses on the White House grounds. Really? That's an interesting historical tidbit. The big news this morning...
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