Crack turf sprinter Lakerville, winner of four of six starts including his debut at Santa Anita Park last year, will miss the $1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (gr. IT) at Santa Anita on Nov. 3, trainer Barry Abrams said.
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Lexington-based Wise Dan, after winning the Woodbine Mile, takes over the top-ranked position in the NTRA/America’s Best Racing weekly national Horse of the Year poll. 
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DESPITE his star filly Danedream being superseded at the head of the Arc market by Orfevre on Sunday and the recent big-race wins of Snow Fairy and Shareta, trainer Peter Schiergen is still confident of doubling up at Longchamp on October 7.
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Post positions are to be drawn Tuesday afternoon (Sept. 18) for Saturday's (Sept. 22) $1.8 million New York Night of Champions, proudly hosted by Yonkers Raceway.
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Some of harness racing’s heavyweights among the older pacing ranks will do battle in Monday night’s (Sept. 17) $216,500 sixth annual Bobby Quillen Memorial at Harrington Raceway.
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Jonathan Sheppard notched the 3,000th victory of his illustrious career Monday when Fugitive Angel was up in the final jumps to capture the seventh race at Delaware Park in Stanton, Del.
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Trainer Richard Fahey has confirmed the Grade 1 EP Taylor Stakes at Woodbine next month as the next target for Barefoot Lady, who bagged a Grade 2 at the track on Sunday.
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The Kindergarten Classic series for freshman trotters resumes with leg No. 3 at The Red Mile on Thursday night (Sept. 13).
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Eadweard Muybridge, an English photographer, settled a bet in 1872 by showing, with a single photographic negative, that a horse has four feet off the ground at the trot. This evidence was groundbreaking for photography, and now, 140 years later, trotting horses have yielded another breakthrough, this time in the field of genetics.
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t was a homecoming for Archangel at Batavia Downs on Wednesday night in a $65,475 division of the New York Sires Stakes for 3-year-old colt and gelding trotters. And Archangel, the Yonkers Trot winner and the fourth-place finisher in the Hambletonian, didn't disappoint one bit.
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Poker Champ and KJ Hannah, divisional runners-ups in last week's first leg of the Emergency Squads of Virginia Pacing Series, stepped up a notch and scored wins in Wednesday's second leg at Colonial Downs.
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A couple hundred people took advantage of the shade in the grandstands to watch the harness racing at the Allegan County Fair on Wednesday afternoon.
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Wednesday’s (Sept. 12) edition of Racing Roundup features results stories from Colonial Downs, Harrington Raceway, The Meadows and Saratoga Casino and Raceway.
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Unbeaten champion Awesome Feather, unraced since a facile score in the Florida Sunshine Millions Distaff in late January, will return to the races in Thursday's $85,000 Nasty Storm Stakes around a one-turn mile at Belmont Park.
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With only three entrants in the $40,000 Harold Dancer Trot, the stakes for New Jersey-sired 2-year-old trotting colts and geldings will be contested as a non-wagering event at 12:15 p.m. on Thursday (Sept. 20) at Freehold Raceway.
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The Breeders' Cup announced Sept. 17 that advance ticket sales for the Nov. 2-3 World Championships at Santa Anita Park have outpaced 2008 and 2009, but that a limited number of reserved seats remain.
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The race office at Batavia Downs announced today the dates and rules of the Henry Tojj pacing series. The pacing series is for horses that have started for a claiming price of $5,000 or less in 2012 and have raced once at Batavia Downs, in any class, during the 2012 Summer-Fall meet.
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Yannick Gingras knows what it is like to have a dream fulfilled. Now he will try to return the favor. In July, Gingras won the Meadowlands Pace, thanks to 3-year-old pacer A Rocknroll Dance and trainer Jim Mulinix. On Thursday, Gingras and the colt will look to give Mulinix a victory in the $487,550 Little Brown Jug
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Winning the Woodbine Mile is far from a routine task, as evidenced by the fact that the Grade 1, $1 million turf race has established itself as a key prep for the Breeders’ Cup Mile. But Wise Dan made it look fairly easy here this past Sunday, cruising to a 3 1/4-length win to give trainer Charlie Lopresti his second straight victory in the Woodbine Mile following the success last year of Turallure.
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Mary Sullivan's homebred Get Stormy, the winner of three grade I stakes on turf, has been retired and will enter stud next year, according to trainer Tom Bush.
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Stormy Lord returns to Philadelphia's Parx Racing Sept. 15 as the 2-1 favorite to defend his title in the $250,000 PTHA President's Cup, a 1 1/8-mile turf test that drew a field of 10 older horses.
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Trailing by five lengths at the top of the stretch and pinned along the pylons, Isabella's Magic went from worst to first to score a 16-1 upset victory in Wednesday's $22,500 Filly & Mare Not Listed Preferred/Preferred Pace at The Meadows.
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Freshman trotting colts grabbed the spotlight on Wednesday night at Balmoral Park as a field of 10 diagonally gaited 2 year olds battled in an American National Stake elimination. The top seven finishers in the race will join Powerful Poe, Super Classic and Show Ticket in next week's final which goes for $76,500.
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Irish One Thousand Guineas (Ire-I) heroine Samitar and Ashland Stakes (gr. I) winner Karlovy Vary head a field of seven 3-year-old fillies entered for the $300,000 Garden City (gr. IT) at Belmont Park Sept. 15, both looking to rebound off third-place finishes in their most recent outings.
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The starting gate for the $250,000 Natalma Stakes (Can-IIT) on the Woodbine lawn Sept. 15 will be packed with promising 2-year-old fillies, 14 in all, with an automatic Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (gr. IT) berth at stake.
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