November 15th, 2009 02:15pm
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Jeff Lowe of the Thoroughbred Times reports, Kip Deville, the 2007 NetJets Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) winner and ’08 Mile runner-up, has been retired following a recent bout with colic.
The six-year-old Kipling horse out of Klondike Kaytie, by Encino, is being treated at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, said Michael Iavarone, president of co-owner IEAH Stables.
“We’re just trying to get him better,” Iavarone said on …
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November 15th, 2009 12:15am
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Jockey Russell Baze swept the first three races en route to a four-win afternoon at Golden Gate Fields Saturday at Albany.
Baze captured the first race with Roar of Eagles ($6.40), the second with Fade to Gold ($5.40) and the third with Blushing Bear Cat ($4.60). The $1 “Russell Baze Pick 3″ paid $18.50.
Baze completed a riding four-bagger when he won the sixth race with odds-on favorite Boot the Boss …
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November 14th, 2009 12:15pm
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The popular Sunshine Millions, which was designed to match the best California-bred horses versus the best bred Thoroughbreds from Florida, will return to both Santa Anita and Gulfstream Park on Saturday, Jan. 30, with $1.8 million in purses at stake.
Inaugurated in 2003, the Sunshine Millions program has become a popular fixture on both the Southern California and Floridaracing calendars, appealing to fans and horsemen alike.
Santa Anita will …
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November 14th, 2009 12:41am
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After picking a number of live horses only to lose by a head, a neck or getting caught at the wire, and managing only one victory in the 14-race Breeders’ Cup last weekend, it’s time to get back on the bike.
What a special show Zenyatta put on, making believers out of almost everyone and rightfully so.
I contacted the Jess Jackson (Rachel Alexandra) camp and was told that he …
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November 13th, 2009 10:34am
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Tim Wilkin of FanIQ reports, Gulfstream Park in Florida, the winter playland of the best horses in training, wants to see the two big ladies slug it out on the racetrack. Ken Dunn, the president and general manager at Gulfstream, would like to see the two females run against each other in the Donn Handicap on Saturday, Feb. 6.
That race would be run a day before the Super …
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November 13th, 2009 12:51am
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Glenye Cain Oakford of the Daily Racing Form reports, Grade 1-winning millionaire Colonel John has retired from racing to WinStar Farm near Lexington, Ky., where he was bred.
The 4-year-old Tiznow colt finished fifth behind Zenyatta in the Breeders Cup Classic in his last start. He now retires with six wins, three seconds, and one third from 15 career starts, for earnings of $1,779,012.
Colonel John won five stakes …
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November 12th, 2009 12:07am
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According to David Grening of the Daily Racing Form, trainer Todd Pletcher has not ruled out running Quality Road in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile here Nov. 28, at Ozone Park, N.Y., but there is a lot of work that needs to be done to make that goal a reality.
Last Saturday, Quality Road freaked out at the starting gate of the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic and cut himself, which …
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November 11th, 2009 12:20am
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Associated Press writer Jimmy Golen reports, four retired racehorses from Suffolk Downs moved into their new home on Tuesday, stepping into sawdust-covered stalls built for them by prison inmates at a 90-acre farm not far from the rocky coastline where the Pilgrims first stepped ashore at Plymouth, Mass.
The horses will live at the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Farm, where the prisoners converted part of an unused dairy barn into …
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November 10th, 2009 05:27pm
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Glenye Cain Oakford of the Daily Racing Form reports, the second time was the charm for Azeri.
The 2002 Horse of the Year went through Keeneland’s January sale this year, only to be bought back for $4.4 million by the Allen E. Paulson Living Trust. Ten months later, the trust tried again at Keeneland’s November auction and got the job done, selling the famous chestnut mare to Japanese breeder Katsumi …
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November 9th, 2009 11:49am
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Now that the Poly Track dust as settled it’s time to start thinking about Horse of the Year.
After reading your responses on my blog, it looks like the majority is willing to, and calling for, a split of the Horse of the Year Award between Jess Jackson’s Rachel Alexandra and Jerry Moss’ Zenyatta.
Even many of the sports’ professionals like trainer Bob Baffert have suggested a shared award would …
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