Lethal Heat tries to burn Monrovia foes
Lethal Heat, who won six of nine starts in 2008 before going to the sidelines following a third-place finish in the Del Mar Oaks (gr. IT), starts a new year for trainer Barry Abrams in the $100,000 ......
| Posted on: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 | |
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Pitched Perfectly needs trip in Count Fleet
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Pitched Perfectly will have to be on top of his game in order to defeat Haynesfield in Saturday's $65,000 Count Fleet Stakes, but if his last race was any indication of his true ......
| Posted on: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 | |
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Full gate for Hal's Hope
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - The 2009 Gulfstream Park meeting will get off to a fast start on Saturday with a 10-race program that includes two stakes, the $100,000 Spectacular Bid for 3-year-olds and ......
| Posted on: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 | |
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NTRA Thoroughbred Notebook: Dec. 31, 2008
News and notes from around the Thoroughbred racing world, compiled by NTRA Communications, (212) 230-9500.
GOMEZ IN PURSUIT OF MONEY RECORD
Garrett Gomez, the nation’s leading rider in terms of ......
| Posted on: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 | |
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Careers near end for two fillies
ARCADIA, Calif. - It will be a short California winter for Dearest Trickski and Baroness Thatcher, who will begin the season as sprinters at Santa Anita and end as broodmares in Kentucky.
Both ......
| Posted on: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 | |
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Third Eclipse Award for Billy Reed
Click here to read "A Rose for Eight Belles"
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association, Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers Association announced Dec. 31 that Billy Reed, long time ......
| Posted on: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 | |
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El Conejo: Black Seventeen at crossroads
ARCADIA, Calif. - Black Seventeen's 2009 campaign will be defined by Thursday's $100,000 El Conejo Handicap at Santa Anita.
If he runs well, he is likely to race primarily in Southern California ......
| Posted on: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 | |
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No decision yet on Peppers Pride
Peppers Pride has not yet been officially retired, but all signs were pointing in that direction as of Tuesday.
"We're still not positive, or 100 percent, but we're leaning that way," said Joel ......
| Posted on: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 | |
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Square Eddie to run in San Rafael Stakes
Square Eddie, who worked six furlongs Dec. 29 at Hollywood Park in a sharp 1:12 2/5 for trainer Doug O’Neill, is scheduled to stay in California for his next race. The Canadian-bred Smart Strike ......
| Posted on: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 | |
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After 20 days unhit, pick six pays $116K
Some bettor somewhere was alive to The Lord's Facts in the final leg of the pick six on Saturday at Hawthorne. One can only hope, for their sanity, that they also had Doc Webster on the ticket.
The ......
| Posted on: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 | |
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Gomez returns in style on Monday
Not even a frightening spill that knocked out several front teeth can slow down Eclipse Award-winning jockey Garrett Gomez, who continued his pursuit of Jerry Bailey’s single-season North American ......
| Posted on: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 | |
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No surgery expected for injured Indyanne
Surgery for the brilliant filly Indyanne, who fractured a sesamoid in her left front ankle while leading in the stretch of the La Brea Stakes (gr. I) at Santa Anita Park Dec. 27, has been postponed, ......
| Posted on: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 | |
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Perrone wins Eclipse for feature writing
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), Daily Racing Form and the National Turf Writers Association today announced that Vinnie Perrone has won the 2008 Media Eclipse Award for Writing ......
| Posted on: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 | |
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Haynesfield tests road to the Derby
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The dominant victory Haynesfield recorded in the Damon Runyon Stakes here Dec. 7 had many excited to see him run again. That chance will come Saturday in the $65,000 Count Fleet ......
| Posted on: Monday, December 29, 2008 | |
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Big Drama will stay in comfort zone at Calder
MIAMI - The richest 3-year-old stabled in south Florida, at least through the majority of the winter season, will not be training at Gulfstream Park, Payson Park, or even at Palm Meadows, which has ......
| Posted on: Monday, December 29, 2008 | |
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