May 26, 2013

Horse Racing Recap: Super Ninety Nine dominates at Southwest Stakes

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Rosie Napravnik aboard Shanghai Bobby edges Mario Gutierrez aboard He’s Had Enough to win the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita.(Photo: Richard Mackson, USA TODAY Sports) Story Highlights A total of 369 three-year-olds have been made early nominations to the 2013 Triple Crown races The early total is down from 398 last year, A [...]

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 [...]

Horse Racing Roundup – Road to the Derby: Oxbow roars to Lecomte Stakes win / Eclipse awards: Wise Dan named Horse of the Year

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Oxbow, right, ridden by Jon Court, led the pack into the stretch and went on to win the $200,000 Grade III Lecomte Stakes at Fair Grounds by more than 11 lengths.(Photo: Alexander Barkoff, Hodges Photography) Story Highlights Oxbow won the Lecomte Stakes by a whopping 11 1/2 lengths Saturday at Fiargrounds Race Track The win [...]

Horse Racing Recap: Racing’s second season looking for another star

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(Jose Lezcano sits atop Street Life in the winners circle after the pair won The Curlin 8th race feature Friday at Saratoga Race Course. Ed Burke 7/27/12) (PhatzRadio / AP) — The second season of racing for 3-year-olds swings into high gear this weekend with the Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga and the Haskell Invitational [...]

Horse Racing Recap: Unbeaten Frankel wins opening race at Royal Ascot

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ASCOT, England (AP) – Frankel enhanced his status as the world’s top-ranked horse on Tuesday, winning the Queen Anne Stakes on the opening day of Royal Ascot by 11 lengths to improve to 11-0. The 4-year-old colt, ridden by Tom Queally, started at 1-10 before beating 11 rivals in the 1-mile Group One race. Expectations [...]

Horse Racing Recap: No workout for I’ll Have Another before Belmont

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NEW YORK (AP) – Trainer Doug O’Neill will take an unconventional path to a Triple Crown bid by using a series of strong gallops rather than formal workouts to prepare I’ll Have Another for the Belmont Stakes on June 9. O’Neill says Sunday from Belmont Park that “there will be a lot of days when [...]

Horse Racing: I’ll Have Another wins Preakness

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BALTIMORE (AP) — I’ll Have Another overtook Bodemeister, blazing down the stretch to win the Preakness in the final strides Saturday and keep alive his hopes of winning the Triple Crown. In a race that was a virtual repeat of the Kentucky Derby finish, I’ll Have Another raced from behind to beat pace-setter Bodemeister. In [...]

Preakness 2012: I’ll Have Another, Bodemeister to duel again

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(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — BALTIMORE – The only certainty entering the 137th Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course is that it won’t look anything like the Kentucky Derby. I’ll Have Another enjoyed the luxury of sitting comfortably off the pace in the early going while Bodemeister set scorching fractions in the Run [...]

Horse Racing: Out of Bounds injured, off Triple Crown trail

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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Kentucky Derby hopeful Out of Bounds won’t make the race because of a leg injury that will require surgery. Out of Bounds won the Sham Stakes on Jan. 7 at Santa Anita and was scheduled to run in the San Felipe Stakes on Saturday. Trainer Eoin Harty said Monday that the [...]

Horse Racing: Breeders’ Cup Classic hits prime time with NBC

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NEW YORK (AP) – The Breeders’ Cup Classic is coming to prime time for the first time. NBC Sports Group and the Breeders’ Cup have agreed to a multiyear deal for the network to televise the two-day Breeders’ Cup World Championships beginning with the 2012 event at Santa Anita Park. This year, NBC Sports Network [...]