May 25, 2013

Horse Racing: Shanghai Bobby wins Belmont’s Track Barron Stakes

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NEW YORK (AP) – Shanghai Bobby improved to 2 for 2 on Wednesday, beating Handsome Jack by a length in the $85,000 Track Barron Stakes for 2-year-olds at Belmont Park. Shanghai Bobby, trained by Todd Pletcher, broke alertly to engage Cay to Pomeroy in a spirited duel for the lead. After racing that rival into [...]

Horse Racing: Feds – Horse racing operation tied to drug cartel

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RUIDOSO, N.M. (AP) – In the stables at a prominent quarter horse track in New Mexico, workers quietly nicknamed Jose Trevino Morales’s stables as the “Zetas’ stables” and say they often saw people show up with bags of cash to buy the horses. On Tuesday, authorities raided those stables and a horse ranch in Oklahoma [...]