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Veteran reinsman Mike Oosting, who has become a fixture atop the driver standings on the Chicago circuit over the past 10-plus years, joined a select group of the sport’s top drivers on Friday (August 31) at Maywood Park as he posted his 5,000th career victory behind the Steve Bauder trained Sectionline Yankee in the night’s fourth race. 
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Ohio Sires Stakes racing highlighted Northfield Park’s Friday (August 31) program where 2-year-old filly pacers and trotters squared off.
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A nine-horse trot was featured in Billings competition at Plainridge Racecourse on Labor Day Monday and when the race was declared official, Bob “Rapid Rail” Krivelin took home all the marbles when he guided Budlightning to a 1:58.1 victory over Guiding Light, who was in rein to Dave “Steady As” Yarock.
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Grade 1 winner Paynter was described as "a very sick horse" by owner Ahmed Zayat on Tuesday, after developing laminitis in three feet as he continues to battle colitis and a series of complications related to the illness.
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Five 2-year-old colt pacers were entered Tuesday (Sept. 4) for the Ontario Sires Stakes Gold elimination scheduled to be contested on Saturday (Sept. 8) at Flamboro Downs.
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Unbeaten two-year-old Reckless Abandon, already a multiple group stakes winner, has been purchased by Darley but will remain with his current connections until the end of next season.
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Undefeated Black Caviar's racing future is still undetermined, and trainer Peter Moody says it will be about a month before the connections decide whether to race the champion during Australia's fall season or retire her.
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Running Aces featured ten $20,000 State Championship races on its final night of the 51-day 2012 meet on Monday (Sept. 3). Four of the ten were won by odds-on favorites, but the other six produced upsets that ranged from mild to shocking.
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Overcast skies and intermittent rain cast their shadow over Harrah's Philadelphia for a special Labor Day program on Monday (Sept. 3) afternoon, but the quartet of $40,000 Pennsylvania Stallion Series finals for 3-year-olds proved compelling, with only one favorite prevailing, and two odds-on selections met with defeat.
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Although he went off at 2-5 in the wagering as part of an entry with A Rocknroll Dance, Dynamic Youth posted an upset on Monday afternoon (Sept. 3) in the $322,716 Cane Pace final at Tioga Downs.
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Patrick Biancone has won stakes races at tracks on three different continents, but Del Mar is not on the list. Biancone, 60, has been successful running females against males and did so, most notably, when All Along won the 1983 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (Fr-I) in his native France, en route to Horse of the Year honors in both the U.S. and France.
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Dolphus Morrison's Gold Edge, winner of the Lisa M Stakes at Arlington Park Aug. 4, breezed five furlongs over the Polytrack in 1:00 4/5 the morning of Sept. 3 in preparation for the upcoming Arlington-Washington Lassie.
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Master of Hounds edged Archbishop after a thrilling stretch duel to win the $606,913 International Topkapi Trophy (Tur-G2), one of two international group stakes on Sunday at Veliefendi Race Course in Istanbul.
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Alphadoodle starred on a night filled with 2-year-old trotting fillies in the New York Sire Stakes at Saratoga Casino and Raceway.
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With the $1.8 million New York Night of Champions a scant couple of weeks away -- Sept. 22, to be precise -- several downstate sire stakes legs remain to be contested.
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Market Share, this year's $1.5 million Hambletonian winner, will headline the Canadian Trotting Classic eliminations this Saturday night at Mohawk. The $1-million final, for three-year-old trotters, will take place on Saturday, Sept. 15.
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A purse schedule and seven late closing fall events have been released for the Watch and Wager harness meeting at Cal Expo that is set to get underway on Friday (Nov. 2).
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Could a Hambletonian entrant emerge next year from the crop of New York Sire Stakes freshman trotting colts and geldings which will be on display on Wednesday afternoon (Sept. 5) at Monticello Raceway? It’s been a long time since a New York-bred has won that prestigious race -- Duenna in 1983 -- but one never knows as the fields in the three splits harbor some possible candidates. But of course that query will take time to really be answered.
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Check Me Out overtook Chapter Seven in number of first-place votes, but was unable to claim the top spot in this week’s Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll.
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Briefly, the second longest shot on the board, took control late in the mile to win the $25,000 Bert Beckwith Memorial Pace at Plainridge Racecourse on Monday afternoon (Sept. 3). The time was 1:53.4.
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Corey Lanerie strolled into the winner's circle Monday at Ellis Park wearing a smile that stuck out on his muddy face. Still aboard Cliff Guilliams Memorial winner Final Count, he looked to Brian Hernandez Jr. and said, "You can't beat me."
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In the $100,000 Shady Daisy, held on Labor Day at Tioga Downs, an early battle by Persisten (David Miller) and Major Look (Jeff Gregory) through fractions of :25.4 and :53 resulted in an by Blackjack Princess and Mark MacDonald.
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Reddam Racing's Know More, who won the Best Pal Stakes (G2) at Del Mar on August 5 in his career debut, headlines a precocious field of 12 in Wednesday's $300,000 Del Mar Futurity (G1) on closing day at the picturesque seaside track.
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Jockey Ramon Dominguez won six races on Sunday, including a 10.30-to-1 upset in the Saranac Stakes (G3) aboard Unbridled Command, establishing a Saratoga Race Course meet record in the process.
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William G. Baffert, the father of Hall of Fame thoroughbred trainer Bob Baffert, died Monday. He was 88.
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