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May 14, 2014 11:08 AM
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West Point Thoroughbreds founder and president Terry Finley figured he would have to reach deep into his wallet to acquire Preakness Stakes (gr. I) contender Ring Weekend, a strapping son of leading sire Tapit , at the 2012 Keeneland September yearling sale.
He was right.
"This is a big money game... if you want to play with those kinds of horses you're going to have to step up, especially at the yearling sales," said Finley, who teamed with St. Elias Stable to land Ring Weekend for $310,000 from breeder Gainesway's consignment.
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Seven of the eight active Racing Hall of Fame riders will meet in head-to-head competition May 16 in the $50,000 Xpressbet Hall of Fame Jockey Challenge at Pimlico Race Course. A sentimental favorite with local fans will be Edgar Prado, who took his first steps toward the Hall of Fame with a decade of dominance on the Maryland circuit and has been no stranger to Pimlico since he left in 1999. One of the most accomplished riders in Maryland history and a 2008 inductee to the Hall of Fame, Prado is joined on the elite roster by Hall of Famers Russell Baze (1999), Mike Smith (2003), Kent Desormeaux (2004), John Velazquez (2012), Calvin Borel (2013), and Alex Solis (2014).
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May 2, 2014 10:31 AM
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The connections of 62 3-year-old pacing colts and geldings have kept their charges eligible to the 31st edition of the C$1 million Pepsi North America Cup by making the April 15 sustaining payment.
Eliminations for the NA Cup are scheduled for Saturday (June 7) at Mohawk Racetrack, while the rich final is scheduled to be raced Saturday (June 14) at the Campbellville, Ont. oval.
Headlining this year's group of nominees is the Dan Patch Award winner and undefeated He's Watching, who set two world records last season along with six track records for trainer and co-owner David Menary. The son of American Idealboasts a 1:50 speed badge along with $291,722 in earnings.
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April 30, 2014 11:34 AM
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Itzaziam (Pat Berry) closed relentlessly to pick of odds-on Bambino Glide (Dan Dube) Tuesday night, winning the $73,500 final of the Raceway/Standardbred Owners Association of New York Bonus Trotting Series. Uninvolved early from post position 3, Itzaziam saw Wisenheimer (Yannick Gingras) and 93-1 Swishnflick (Larry Stalbaum) both be put in the game early. Meanwhile, 1-4 fave Bambino Glide found himself parked two turns, finally getting the lead between a 28-second opening quarter-mile and a 57-flat intermission. He continued his advantage in and out of the 1:26.3 three-quarters, with Itzaziam a seemingly-uninvolved sixth from third-over. However, early troubles getting the lead would bit the favorite late. Itzaziam made up nearly five lengths through the rainy lane, getting to Bambino Glide by a half-length in 1:57. Swishnflick nipped Wisenheimer for third, with Rock of Cashel (Jeff Gregory) grabbing the final pay envelope.
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April 30, 2014 11:33 AM
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Will Take Charge, last year's champion 3-year-old male, headlines a cast of very familiar names for Churchill Downs' Alysheba Stakes May 2 at 1 1/16 miles. Normally run during the middle of the Oaks undercard, the name recognition is so alluring the race will be just before the Longines Kentucky Oaks with a 4:52 p.m. post.
The purse may be $300,000, but a better field would be tough to put together at twice the price. Will Take Charge will be facing three other runners from last year's Kentucky Derby: runner-up Golden Soul, fourth-place finisher Normandy Invasion, and fifth-place finisher Mylute.
The 2012 Travers Stakes winner Golden Ticket also is in the line-up.
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April 29, 2014 10:55 PM
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Will Take Charge, last year's champion 3-year-old male, headlines a cast of very familiar names for Churchill Downs' Alysheba Stakes (gr. II) May 2 at 1 1/16 miles. Normally run during the middle of the Oaks undercard, the name recognition is so alluring the race will be just before the Longines Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) with a 4:52 p.m. post.
The purse may be $300,000, but a better field would be tough to put together at twice the price. Will Take Charge will be facing three other runners from last year's Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I): runner-up Golden Soul, fourth-place finisher Normandy Invasion, and fifth-place finisher Mylute.
The 2012 Travers Stakes (gr. I) winner Golden Ticket also is in the line-up.
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April 29, 2014 10:54 PM
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Fifteen years ago, Jason Bartlett was just beginning his driving career. In those early years he divided his time between a home base in Maine and the newly opened Plainridge Racecourse. Both the young driver and the Massachusetts track were in their formative days, and Bartlett was an integral part of Plainridge for much of its first decade.
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April 29, 2014 10:52 PM
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Champion juvenile filly She's a Tiger, disqualified from a win the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (gr. ) in her final start of 2013, makes her first start of the year in the $175,000 Eight Belles Stakes (gr. III) May 2 Churchill Downs.
The daughter of Tale of the Cat made all the pace and finished first, just a nose in front of Ria Antonia, in the Juvenile Fillies Nov. 2 at Santa Anita Park, but her number came down for drifting out during the stretch run and brushing with that rival, a 32-1 shot who was elevated to first. She's a Tiger was placed second as the 5-1 fourth choice in a heartbreaking conclusion to a consistent season in which she placed in all six starts, winning three races, including the Del Mar Debutante (gr. I) run at the Eight Belle's seven-furlong distance. She went on to win the Eclipse Award as the season's champion 2-year-old filly for owners Mark Dedomenico, Allen Aldrich, Lisa Hernandez, Stuart Downey, and Phillip Lebherz, and trainer Jeff Bonde.
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April 29, 2014 11:04 AM
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For the first time since 2008, The Meadows Racetrack & Casino will offer live racing on each Saturday of the Thoroughbred Triple Crown, beginning with the May 3 Kentucky Derby. This Saturday's card, which begins at 11:25 a.m., features a $200,000 (est.) Pennsylvania Sires Stakes for 3-year-old filly pacers. Advance wagering for the Kentucky Derby begins Friday.
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April 29, 2014 10:55 AM
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John Dayton's Just A Jolt ($6.60, Victor Kirby) notched his third consecutive win Monday at Harrington Raceway with a 1:52.4 triumph in the $17,000 Open. The 4-year-old Village Jolt gelding improved to two-for-two in 2014 at Harrington, after besting a high-level conditioned group on April 21 in 1:51.3. Trained by Jim King Jr., "Jolt" sat in the pocket throughout behind pacesetting favorite Lollipop Kid who strolled through fractions of :27.3, :57.1 and 1:25.3 over the sloppy racetrack. Just A Jolt gathered momentum in midstretch and surged by to prevail by a narrow margin. Two equine elder statesmen among the local racing colony prevailed later in the card. Art Brewer II's Sharky Osborne ($9.60) earned his 59th career win in the 11th race with a 1:57.3 triumph. The Cam's Card Shark gelding is closing in on $900,000 in career earnings.
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April 28, 2014 3:19 PM
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The 2014 edition Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe will be worth €5 million (₤4.1m) after French racing's governing body announced a €200,000 increase to the total prize fund on Monday.
The increase means that Europe's richest race is now worth €1m more than when Solemia defeated Orfevre just 18 months ago.
The Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club first sponsored the race in 2008 and are already committed until 2022.
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April 28, 2014 12:59 PM
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Steve “You’re Never Too” Oldford is on a roll. Actually he’s been on a roll ever since he began amateur driving in earnest back in 2006 at age 46.
A career winner of 85 races thus far, the bulk coming over the past six seasons, the Croswell, Mich., sales rep was in the winner’s circle again on Sunday evening (April 27) after he won the first race in the Midwest region of the 2014 C.K.G. Billings Harness Driving Series with Claim Jumper in a time of 1:58.4 at Miami Valley Raceway.
By his own admission, Oldford had a perfect trip behind Southwind Nazareth and driver Ned “the Hilliard’s Hot-Shot” Hodkinson.
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April 28, 2014 12:29 PM
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One of the greatest trotters ever, Mack Lobell, turns 30 Monday (April 28) and was celebrated at Menhammar Farms in Sweden, where he has been retired.
Mack Lobell was an outstanding trotter, who not only won the the Hambletonian, but also went on to win the Elitlopp in Sweden as a 4-year-old, driven by John Campbell. At that time he was trained by Chuck Sylvester and owned by Lou Guida, but after the victory, Mack Lobell was sold to John Erik Magnusson's ACL Farm of Sweden.
Mack Lobell managed to win another Elitlopp and for several years was a dominant trotter on the European trotting scene. When he finished his career, he had raced 94 times, won 71 races, and had earnings of $3.4 million.
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May 14, 2014 11:08 AM
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A total of 25 Hambletonian eligible 3-year-old male trotters will be in action on the New Jersey and Pennsylvania sire stakes circuits this week.
Pennsylvania kicks it off Thursday with three divisions of sire stakes at Harrah’s Philadelphia. The Hambletonian eligible trotters entered are, in alphabetical order: Auspicious Hanover, Datsyuk, Don Dorado, Exodus Hanover, Fashion Tagman, JJ Alex, Journey, Keystone Wasabi, Kumbaya De Vie, Nuncio, Outburst, Raise The Curtain, and Sarcastic Man.
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May 14, 2014 10:49 AM
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For the 10th time this season Shortest Distance has been victorious. On Monday afternoon at Monticello Raceway, the 9-year-old Park Place pacing mare returned to the track where she started the season and turned back five others to score a two-length triumph in 1:56.3 with Bruce Aldrich Jr. at the controls. With her latest victory Shortest Distance moved into second place on the North American leaderboard in races won this season and now trails another Mighty M pacer Diamond Tiara whose tops with 11 wins. With her penchant to race on the front end, Aldrich obliged and sent Shortest Distance to the lead but she didn't take command until she neared the quarter pole in a swift :28.2. As the field was heading to the half Aldrich was attempting to give his mare a breather but it was short-lived when Jason Ryan moved La Reata out to challenge as the field came off the paddock turn.
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April 30, 2014 11:35 AM
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Lady Suffolk and Dexter Cup, Freehold Raceway, Freehold, N.J., John Simpson Memorial Stakes, Meadowlands Racetrack, East Rutherford, N.J. and Chip Noble Memorial and Miami Valley Distaff, Miami Valley Raceway, Lebanon, Ohio.
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April 30, 2014 11:33 AM
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One year after coming up just short, Anita Cauley homebred On Fire Baby will give the $300,000 La Troienne Stakes another try Friday, May 2 at Churchill Downs.
Last year On Fire Baby and Padua Stable's Authenticity engaged in a duel throughout the 1 1/16-mile race for fillies and mares that saw the latter prevail by a head at the wire. The two were heads apart throughout the second half of the race and they pulled away from the rest of the field.
On Fire Baby, a 5-year-old daughter of Smoke Glacken, enters the La Troienne off a runner-up finish to Close Hatches in the Apple Blossom Handicap April 11 at Oaklawn Park. Trained by Gary "Red Dog" Hartlage, On Fire Baby secured a Grade 1 score in last year's Apple Blossom.
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April 30, 2014 11:33 AM
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Several graded stakes turf sprint warriors from last year and a newly minted graded stakes winner make up the nine-horse field entered in the May 1$150,000 Twin Spires Turf Sprint Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Churchill Downs.
The lukewarm 3-1 favorite in the sixth race on the Longines Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) undercard is Klaravich Stables and William Lawrence's Sum of the Parts. The 5-year-old son of Speightstown has started as the favorite in two turf sprints so far this year and won one of them, the Champion Energy Services Stakes at Sam Houston Race Park. Tom Amoss trains Sum of the Parts, and he'll be ridden by Rosie Napravnik, who's been aboard his last three races.
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April 29, 2014 10:54 PM
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Tuesday's (April 29) edition of Racing Roundup features results stories from The Meadows and Harrington Raceway.
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April 29, 2014 10:53 PM
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One year after coming up just short, Anita Cauley homebred On Fire Baby will give the $300,000 La Troienne Stakes (gr. I) another try Friday, May 2 at Churchill Downs.
Last year On Fire Baby and Padua Stable's Authenticity engaged in a duel throughout the 1 1/16-mile race for fillies and mares that saw the latter prevail by a head at the wire. The two were heads apart throughout the second half of the race and they pulled away from the rest of the field.
On Fire Baby, a 5-year-old daughter of Smoke Glacken, enters the La Troienne off a runner-up finish to Close Hatches in the Apple Blossom Handicap (gr. I) April 11 at Oaklawn Park. Trained by Gary "Red Dog" Hartlage, On Fire Baby secured a grade I score in last year's Apple Blossom.
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April 29, 2014 10:31 PM
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Bandolito might not be the biggest of horses, but Daryl Bier expects him to stand tall when he takes on some of the best older pacers in the world in Saturday night’s $50,000 Van Rose Memorial Invitational at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. The 4-year-old sensation, who owns the fastest mile of any pacer so far this season, faces eight rivals in the third edition of the Van Rose Memorial. Bandolito’s foes include 2013 Van Rose winner Golden Receiver, who has earned $2.13 million during his career, as well as Sweet Lou, Dynamic Youth, and Warrawee Needy. Unraced at age 2, Bandolito has won 13 of 17 career races and $241,315.
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April 29, 2014 11:03 AM
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Certified Ideal pulled the pocket at the half and rolled to a convincing victory in Monday's $22,500 Filly & Mare Not Listed Preferred/Preferred Handicap Pace at The Meadows. Nosed out last week by Do Me Honor, Certified Ideal found herself behind Do Me Honor after the two dueled for the early lead. When Tony Hall moved Certified Ideal, the 4-year-old daughter of Western Ideal-Areba's Last blew by Do Me Honor, widened her lead and scored in 1:52.4 on a "good” surface. Do Me Honor was a game second, 2 1/2 lengths back, with Phone Terror third. Randy Bendis trains Certified Ideal, who extended her career bankroll to $178,392, and owns with Mike Novosel Jr., Tom Pollack and James Walton.
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April 29, 2014 10:54 AM
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A familiar face was found back in the winner’s circle at Woodbine Racetrack on Monday evening (April 28) as a pair of C$15,000 divisions took place in the second round of the Tie Silk Series.
Entranced, driven by Mike Saftic, will aim for the series sweep after turning back all rivals in a 1:56.4 victory.
The talented son of Kadabra led from gate-to-wire through panels of :27, :58 and 1:28.3, before kicking home with a :28.1 final quarter to seal the victory in 1:56.4. Musical Spell (Jack Moiseyev) finished second, with Verdi (Paul MacDonell) third.
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April 28, 2014 2:15 PM
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Scioto Downs' first qualifiers of the season were held Monday (April 28) in preparation for the live racing season which starts on Thursday (May 8).
Qualifiers will continue to be held on Mondays throughout the summer with a post time of 10 a.m. The condition sheet for the first week of live racing is now available and Scioto Downs is set up for online entry.
Announcer Barry Vicroy took a practice run this morning, giving the race calls for the eight-race card.
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April 28, 2014 12:30 PM
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After discussions with the Pennsylvania Harness Horsemen’s Association, it has been decided that the 2014 Ben Franklin will include a $75,000 consolation if there are enough entries for the Free For All Pace eliminations on Saturday (June 21) at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs to warrant it.
The final sustaining payment for the early closing event is due on May 15. Horses may also be supplemented by paying $30,000 plus the entrance fee at the time of entry for the eliminations.
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