May 21, 2013

Horse Racing Recap: Verrazano 1st on AP’s final Top 10 Derby list

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NEW YORK (AP) – Doug O’Neill is gearing up for a Kentucky Derby repeat. A year after winning the Derby with I’ll Have Another, the trainer is going for another – this time with Goldencents. The 3-year-old colt came through with a huge race in winning the Santa Anita Derby on April 6, and should [...]

Horse Racing Recap: Itsmyluckyday early favorite for $1M Florida Derby

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Story Highlights Itsmyluckyday is the early favorite in the Florida Derby draw Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Shanghai Bobby drew the No. 1 post for Saturday’s race The $1M Florida Derby is probably the top Kentucky Derby prep race (PhatzRadio / USA Today) —- HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. — A field of 10 was entered Wednesday for [...]

Horse Racing: Trainer McGaughey closing in on Derby try with Orb

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(PhatzRadio / AP) — Shug McGaughey catches Derby fever every once in a while, and the Hall of Fame trainer just might have it again thanks to a 3-year-old colt named Orb. Sure, it’s more than two months before the Kentucky Derby, but it’s never too early to start planning for a trip to Churchill [...]

Horse Racing Recap: Ain’t No Other wins Sensational Star Stakes

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ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) – Ain’t No Other defeated Starspangled Heat by three-quarters of a length to win the $100,000 Sensational Star Stakes for older California-bred horses at Santa Anita on Sunday. Ridden by Rafael Bejarano, Ain’t No Other ran 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course in 1:11.53 and paid $11.40, $6 and $4. [...]

Horse Racing: Injury knocks Violence off road to Kentucky Derby

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Violence, right, finished just behind Orb, left, on Saturday in the Fountain of Youth stakes at Gulfstream Park. Violence injured his right front ankle (sesamoid).(Photo: AP) Story Highlights Violence won all three of his races as a two-year-old His loss to Orb Saturday was the first of his career A fractured sesamoid knocks Violence off [...]

Horse Racing: Run to Roses – Shanghai Bobby No. 1 in AP’s Top 10

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(PhatzRadio / AP) —- Round up the usual suspects. It’s time to hitch a ride on the road to the Kentucky Derby, and the trainers who show up just about every year are back again. Todd Pletcher, Bob Baffert, Nick Zito and even four-time Derby winner D. Wayne Lukas have a whole bunch of promising [...]

Roger Clemens’ wife: I received HGH injection in 2000

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(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — WASHINGTON — Testifying at her husband’s perjury trial Friday, Roger Clemens’ wife said that she received a human growth hormone injection in 2000. Debbie Clemens said her interest in HGH was sparked by a 2000 USA TODAY cover story that described HGH as a “youth drug,” something that celebrities were [...]

Horse Racing Recap: Union Rags gives trainer Michael Matz hopes for roses

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(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — LOUISVILLE – Michael Matz knows the feeling of watching his horse enter the spotlight on the first Saturday in May, having brought Barbaro to the fore in 2006. “I was lucky enough to have one horse run real well here,” Matz said Monday as he stood in his barn on [...]

Boxing: Dawson tops Hopkins by majority decision for light heavyweight title

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Bernard Hopkins (black trunks) throws a punch against Chad Dawson (grey trunks) during their WBC & Ring Magazine Light Heavyweight Title fight at Boardwalk Hall Arena on April 28, 2012 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. (April 27, 2012 – Source: Al Bello/Getty Images North America) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Bad Chad is a champion [...]

Horse Racing Recap: Union Rags still the 1 in AP’s Run to Roses Top 10

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(PhatzRadio / SI) -– Picking the favorite for the Kentucky Derby may be as tough as picking the winner. Without a breakthrough star heading into the May 5 Derby, there’s a stable full of 3-year-olds worthy of the leading role as horse to beat when a full field of 20 spring from the starting gate [...]