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Niles' Batton returns to agency he helped launch
South Bend TribuneNILES -- Back to the future. At least that's how Tim Batton describes his return to the Ferry Street Resource Center, the nonprofit referral and social services agency he helped jump-start seven years ago. It's an apt description. Batton, 57, was...Tags: Unemployment Benefits
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Triple Crown: Impossible dream?
After Kentucky Derby winner Orb finished in fourth place at the Preakness, we are on the longest drought ever for a Triple Crown winner ("Lukas kept prediction to himself: Oxbow," May 20). The last time a horse won a Triple Crown was Affirmed in 1978....
Tags: Equestrian, Triple Crown, Hallandale Beach, Preakness Stakes, Kentucky Derby
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Orb is horse to beat and has made the rest of Preakness field an afterthought
Shug McGaughey, the trainer for Kentucky Derby winner Orb, attributes his calm demeanor since that race to maturity. Had he made it to the Preakness with a Triple Crown chance at a younger age, the 64-year-old insists, the scene would have been...
Tags: Joel Rosario, Equestrian, Mike Smith, Pimlico, Triple Crown
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With Oxbow's win, Orb's Triple Crown dreams dashed
For all of his laser focus on Saturday's Preakness, Claude "Shug" McGaughey couldn't help but dream ahead to the possibility of his colt, Orb, going for a Triple Crown at his home track of Belmont Park in New York. "I wouldn't be telling you the truth...
Tags: Equestrian, Pimlico, Pitbull (music artist), Triple Crown, Pimlico Race Course
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Stakes are highest for Orb in Preakness
BALTIMORE — Horse racing's Preakness is a place of history and a bubble of hope. If you come here with a Kentucky Derby victory under your belt, as trainer Shug McGaughey and Orb have, you have little time to appreciate that history. You are...
Tags: Sports, Horse and Harness Racing, Equestrian, Triple Crown, Rosie Napravnik
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Walkwithapurpose scratches, so Black-Eyed Susan left with Hall of Fame duel
Baltimore Sun Media GroupThe top local entrant for Friday's 89th running of the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico took one wrong step on Thursday and had to be scratched. Walkwithapurpose, a Maryland-bred owned by Sagamore Farm in Glyndon, was expected to be one of the top...Tags: Joel Rosario, Equestrian, Pimlico, NBC (tv network), Preakness Stakes
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8 horses committed to Preakness 2013 field with Normandy Invasion dropping out
Orb's path to the finish line in the second leg of the Triple Crown remains uncrowded. Normandy Invasion, the fourth-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, dropped from contention for Saturday's 138th running of the Preakness on Sunday. Trainer Chad...
Tags: Equestrian, Chemical Industry, Lasix (drug), Pimlico, Preakness Stakes
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Pletcher scoffs at rumors second-favorite Verrazano stopped eating
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Todd Pletcher knew there were rumors. He even figured some of them impugned his horses. When you're one of the winningest trainers in the game who just happens to condition a quarter of the Kentucky Derby field, that, he said,...
Tags: Equestrian, Sports, Horse and Harness Racing, U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Kentucky Derby
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Kentucky Derby full of intrigue with Pletcher's pack, O'Neill's return
The Baltimore SunLast year's chase for the Triple Crown ended when trainer Doug O'Neill stepped to a microphone stand in a patch of fenced-in grass next to a barn near the Belmont Park track. Brushing back tears, he announced that a tendon injury would prevent I'll Have...Tags: Equestrian, Sports, Preakness Stakes, Churchill Downs, Kentucky Derby
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Louisville coach Rick Pitino watches his Kentucky Derby horse train
The Baltimore SunOn Wednesday at Churchill Downs, a crowd clad mainly in Louisville basketball shirts gathered at Barn 45 to watch Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino as he visited a horse of which he owns five percent. Pitino, a month removed from becoming the...Tags: Sports, Equestrian, Zoology, Preakness Stakes, Gorgui Dieng
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Ore Pass headed to Gotham Stakes in search of Kentucky Derby points
Horses chasing a spot in the Kentucky Derby this year must, for the first time, compile points (instead of graded earnings) by finishing in the top four in a series of races chosen by the staff at Churchill Downs. The revised qualification rules are...
Tags: Equestrian, Laurel, Laurel, Michael Phelps, Kentucky Derby
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Horse trainer Rick Dutrow sues to reverse ban on racing in New York
Rick Dutrow, who trained Big Brown to Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes wins in 2008, has filed a federal lawsuit seekng to overturn his 10-year ban from thoroughbred racing in New York for drug violations. The lawsuit, filed in Brooklyn, says...
Tags: Equestrian, Litigation, Trials, Preakness Stakes, Brooklyn (New York City)
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