The race to become champion steeplechaser of 2012 is about to reach its final fences as Belmont Park hosts the Grade 1, $150,000 Lonesome Glory on Thursday.
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With the Little Brown Jug and various regional finals now history, the focus of harness racing shifts to the Bluegrass for the premier Grand Circuit event of the season, two wonderful weeks at The Red Mile. 
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Trainer Bob Baffert will start the multiple stakes winner Ellafitz in the $250,000 Zenyatta Stakes over 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita, but she could be overshadowed by Amani, Include Me Out, and Switch.
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The C.K.G. Billings Harness Driving Championship Series heads into the final quarter of this year’s events with just eight venues left before the regional finals, which will be contested in early November.
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When announcer Pete Medhurst got the chance to start calling races at Ocean Downs, he was already working in a radio station in Virginia Beach.
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Jockey Tyler Baze, who has not ridden since August 2011 because of substance abuse problems, began working horses at Santa Anita on Sunday, a day after having his license reinstated by Los Alamitos stewards.
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Third Chance, the fast four-year-old filly owned by ABC-7 Chicago news anchorman Ron Magers, Bob Marcocchio and others, began her career with an appetizing six-length win at Arlington 25 months ago.
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Trainer Dale Romans, who already has established a personal record for single-season North American earnings in 2012, has multiple chances to take down additional lucrative prizes over the next two weeks at Belmont Park.
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Trainer Dale Romans, who has already has established a personal record for single-season North American earnings in 2012, has confirmed Little Mike and Finnegans Wake for Saturday's Grade 1, $600,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational and Dullahan primed for the Grade 1, $400,000 Jamaica Handicap on October 6.
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Yonkers Raceway played host to the richest night of racing in the state on Saturday (Sept. 22), the $1.8 million New York Night of Champions. Eight $225,000 sire stakes divisional finals for 2- and 3-year-olds of both sexes and gaits were on tap in the 23rd Night of Champions, which were each again sponsored by a prominent Empire breeding farm or ownership group.
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No Monkeys Allowed pounced on the pace-setting Restless Yankee in the final stride to pull out a head victory in Saturday night’s $8,400 featured seventh race at Vernon Downs.
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Thomas Dillon's Hot Shot Blue Chip held off a fast closing Opening Night at the wire to win the $205,500 Pride In Progress Free For All Trot on Saturday night (Sept. 22) at Indiana Downs.
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Dust and Diamonds, getting good at the right time, disposed of her better-known rivals Musical Romance and Turbulent Descent with ease in capturing the $200,000 Gallant Bloom Handicap (gr. II) by 1 1/4 lengths at Belmont Park Sept. 22.
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Rod Seiling, Chair of the Ontario Racing Commission, has announced that Anne Walker, BSc, MSc, DVM, JD of Beamsville, Ontario, has been appointed by the Government of Ontario as a member of the ORC for a period of two years, effective Sept. 12, 2012.
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Winning Express, trained by Ed McMahon, is one of the 15 fillies engaged for the Group 1, £163,500 Cheveley Park at Newmarket on Saturday after she was supplemented Monday at a cost of £15,000.
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Illinois conceived and foaled pacers and trotters were back in action over the weekend as Balmoral Park played host to a trio of stakes events for 2- and 3-year-olds.
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Seemingly headed for an easy front-running victory in the $157,199 La Lorgnette Stakes at Woodbine Sept. 23, favored La Tia surprised everyone when she jumped into the rail at the eighth pole. But quick action by jockey Justin Stein saved the day as La Tia recovered in time to win anyway.
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Seemingly headed for an easy front-running victory in the $157,199 La Lorgnette Stakes at Woodbine Sept. 23, favored La Tia surprised everyone when she jumped into the rail at the eighth pole. But quick action by jockey Justin Stein saved the day as La Tia recovered in time to win anyway.
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Girolamo, a stablemate of defending Arc champion Danedream, had his moment of glory when he won the Preis Von Europa at Cologne Sept. 23, the final group I race of the 2012 German season.
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Classic winner Shackleford breezed five furlongs in a bullet 1:00 4/5 at his Churchill Downs base on Sunday, pleasing trainer Dale Romans in his last major move ahead of Saturday's Grade 2 Kelso Handicap at Belmont.
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Whitney Invitational Handicap (gr. I) winner Fort Larned turned in his final serious work Sept. 23 for the upcoming $1 million TVG Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational (gr. I) at Belmont Park, covering five furlongs in 1:01.04 over the main track.
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At odds of 23-1, Rocklamation lowered the stakes record to 1:49.4 in the C$384,000 Milton final for pacing fillies and mares on Saturday night (Sept. 22) at Mohawk.
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Favored Book Review, invading from New York for trainer Chad Brown, took down the $400,000 Charles Town Oaks with a big sweeping move from the back of the pack on the night of Sept. 22 at Charles Town.
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Trotter Arch Madness and pacer Golden Receiver won their respective Opens in the featured races on a sloppy Saturday night (Sept. 22) at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs.
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