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Calder will not race on Memorial Day for first time
Something is missing from Calder Race Course's Memorial Day weekend agenda. Memorial Day. For the first time, Calder will not offer live racing on Memorial Day, a major occasion on the national racing calendar. Monday is normally a dark day for live...Tags: Gulfstream Park, Sports, Holidays, Churchill Downs, Horse and Harness Racing
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Santa Anita gets key racing dates
Santa Anita came away the big winner Thursday when the California Horse Racing Board tentatively approved racing dates for 2014 and 2015 in response to the pending closure of Betfair Hollywood Park on Dec. 22. Santa Anita will expand its usual fall...
Tags: Triple Crown, Sports, Horse and Harness Racing
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Nate's Mineshaft seeks to re-establish credentials
Nate's Mineshaft has impeccable lineage on his sire's side of the family — starting with Mineshaft after AP Indy and Seattle Slew. Mineshaft was America's Horse of the Year in 2003; AP Indy was Horse of the Year in 1992; and Triple Crown winner...
Tags: Arlington Park, Triple Crown, Sports, Metal and Mineral, Horse and Harness Racing
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Oxbow's Preakness victory doesn't spoil anything
BALTIMORE — Chances are, the horse racing public will get it wrong again. When Oxbow went wire-to-wire in Saturday's Preakness, again ruining a chance for a Triple Crown, it is likely to prompt hand-wringing among those who see it as the...
Tags: Triple Crown, Preakness Stakes, Equestrian, Sports, Horse and Harness Racing
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Napravnik reflects on early days at Pimlico as she prepares for Preakness ride
Sitting in front of a microphone Friday morning, Rosie Napravnik fielded questions about her first race at Pimlico Race Course while donning a hat from her new sponsor, Snickers Bites. For the 25-year-old jockey, it was a fitting juxtaposition, as she's...
Tags: Preakness Stakes, Rosie Napravnik, Equestrian, Pimlico, Human Accomplishments
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Everything revolves around Orb
The Baltimore SunThe colt was a knucklehead, really. He had speed and endurance in his pedigree, but if you had polled his owners and his trainer a year ago, none would have predicted that he’d gallop in the same steps as his great-grandsire, 1977 Triple Crown...Tags: Triple Crown, Equestrian, Long Island, NBC (tv network), Sports
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Orb trainer McGaughey has Triple Crown reminders 'every day'
BALTIMORE - Wednesday morning at Pimlico race track was similar to most mornings for Claude McGaughey III. Except there were lots of reporters around, which made it different. McGaughey is a thoroughbred horse trainer, currently the one in the catbird'...Tags: Orb (racehorse), Triple Crown, Equestrian, Secretariat (racehorse), Sports Illustrated
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Press Box: Hollywood Park to close this year
ReutersThe Sports Xchange Press Box: Hollywood Park to close this year Betfair Hollywood Park race track will close before the end of the year. In a letter to the California Race Board on Thursday, track president Jack Liebau wrote that the horse racing track...Tags: Villanova Wildcats, Sports, Basketball, Syracuse Orange, Horse and Harness Racing
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Hollywood Park's ghost of a chance casts pall on Southland racing
With its announcement Thursday, Hollywood Park did little to refute the theory that horse racing is a sport in need of hospice. They raced at the Inglewood track Friday, but it wasn't business as usual. Nor will it be the rest of this meeting and the...
Tags: Michael Jackson, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Sports, Los Angeles International Airport, Horse and Harness Racing
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Hollywood Park closing in December
ReutersThe Sports Xchange Hollywood Park closing in December Betfair Hollywood Park will close before the end of the year. In a letter to the California Race Board on Thursday, track president Jack Liebau wrote that it will close at the end of its fall meet...Tags: Churchill Downs Inc.
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Factbox - Kentucky Derby winner Orb
Reuters(Reuters) - Profile of the 2013 Kentucky Derby winner Orb Bred in Kentucky, his sire was Malibu Moon, a son of the 1992 Breeders' Cup Classic winner A.P. Indy, while his dam was Lady Liberty, a daughter of the 1990 Kentucky Derby winner Unbridled. The...Tags: Orb (racehorse), Equestrian, Dubai World Cup, Animal Kingdom (racehorse), Shug McGaughey (racehorse)
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As Kentucky Derby nears, these two already have won
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — As the Kentucky Derby approaches, consider Dennis O'Neill and Tom Knust as Twin Spires for racehorse Goldencents. The backstretch barns at Churchill Downs were celebrity central Wednesday morning, led by the current biggest...
Tags: Triple Crown, Equestrian, Health Treatments, Churchill Downs, Celebrities
May 23, 2013
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May 10, 2013
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May 11, 2013
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May 10, 2013
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May 4, 2013
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May 1, 2013
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