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May 2008 - Posts
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Italian Group 1 winner Sudan (Ire) executed a dominant front-running performance on Saturday, easily winning the $100,000 Golden Gate Fields Stakes (G3) by four lengths to earn his first North American win. Read More...
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Jerry and Anne Moss’s Zenyatta extended her record to five wins in as many career starts when she powered home with her customary late charge in the $183,300 Milady Handicap (G2) on Saturday at Hollywood Park. Read More...
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Acoma rallied in the stretch to reel in runner-up Keep the Peace and earn her first graded stakes win by a half-length in the $109,000 Dogwood Stakes (G3) on Saturday at Churchill Downs. Read More...
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Graded stakes winner Inca King set an uncontested pace and never looked back, earning his first stakes victory of the year in the $119,700 Opening Verse Handicap on Saturday at Churchill Downs. Read More...
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Darley Stable’s Raw Silk sprinted to a clear early lead and never was seriously threatened on Saturday en route to her first stakes race victory in the $150,000 Sands Point Stakes (G2) at Belmont Park. Read More...
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Maggi Moss’s Indian Chant dug in when challenged by Noonmark in the final sixteenth and had enough energy to hold him off by a head in a stirring stretch duel in the $119,125 Aristides Stakes (G3) on Saturday at Churchill Downs. Read More...
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Dual classic winner Big Brown galloped on Saturday morning at Belmont Park, continuing his preparation for a run at the Triple Crown in the Belmont Stakes (G1) on June 7. Read More...
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Hutcheson Stakes (G2) winner Smooth Air powered past Cherokee Artist in early stretch and surged clear to a convincing four-length win in the $300,000 Ohio Derby (G2) on Saturday at Thistledown. Read More...
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With Eurico Da Silva at the reins, Callwood Dancer earned the first stakes victory of her career at odds of 9.05-to-1 by edging Quiet Jungle, who closed from fourth in the early stretch with a torrid rally under Robert Landry to just miss her first stakes...
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Grade 1 winner Greg’s Gold has been retired due to “wear and tear” and will be sent to Harris Farms in Coalinga, California, trainer David Hofmans said. Read More...
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Fox Hill Farms’ multiple graded stakes winner Hard Spun was named the first Pennsylvania-bred horse of the year on Friday night at the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association’s Iroquois Awards Dinner. Read More...
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Trainer Richard Dutrow Jr.’s faith in Big Brown has never wavered, and the outspoken conditioner continued to marvel over the Boundary colt on Friday morning as Big Brown received a bath after galloping over the main track at Belmont Park. Read More....
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Storm Marcopolo, the 2007 Argentinean champion sprinter, died on May 16 at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute near Lexington after experiencing complications from the anesthesia used to perform an MRI on his right front foot. Read More...
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Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Big Brown continued his preparations on Thursday for the $1-million Belmont Stakes (G1) on June 7 at Belmont Park, where he will attempt to become racing’s 12th Triple Crown...
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