Paynter, who became ill following his Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1) win, is scheduled to be released from a New Jersey veterinary clinic on Friday, but his status for the Travers Stakes (G1) is in doubt.
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The Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup, Britain's premier jockeys' competition, will take place Saturday at Ascot Racecourse. The unique event features top jockeys in four teams -- Great Britain and Ireland, Europe, the Rest of the World and for the first time this year The Girls -- battling against each other in a thrilling six-race showdown. 
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A group of 11 sophomore pacers will head postward on Sunday (August 12) for the 2012 Confederation Cup at Flamboro Downs.
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The New York Racing Association (NYRA) has released the stakes schedules for the 2012 Belmont Park and Aqueduct fall meets.
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Eleven 3-year-old pacers have been entered for Sunday's Confederation Cup at Flamboro Downs. The double-heat race is divided into a pair of eliminations, with the top four finishers in each plus one fifth-place finisher will return for the same-day final.
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On The Cusp, co-owned and driven by Steve Byron, will look for the biggest payday of her career when she goes to post for the C$50,000 Girls’ Night Out Pacing Series final on Friday night (August 10) at Mohawk.
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Three-year-old trotting filly Check Me Out returns to the races this Friday (August 10) at The Meadows, after finishing third placed eighth for interference while on a break in the final turn at odds of 3-5 in the Hambletonian Oaks on August 4.
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Its Complicated made things pretty simple Tuesday at The Meadows when he captured a division of a $311,725 Pennsylvania Sires Stake in 1:56, fastest this year by a 2-year-old getting trotter on a five-eighths-mile track.
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Tuesday's (Aug. 7) edition of Racing Roundup features results stories from Monticello Raceway, Running Aces and Saratoga Casino and Raceway.
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A Metrolink train car adorned with a vinyl display of six Thoroughbreds will be traversing the Southern California mass transit system this week under a partnership with Breeders' Cup.
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YORK'S attempts to guarantee some meaningful opposition to Frankel in the Juddmonte International Stakes suffered a major blow on Tuesday night, when Corine Barande-Barbe admitted defeat in her race to get Cirrus Des Aigles fit for the contest on August 22.
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The 2012 race for Northfield Park’s leading trainer has been tight from the start, with Kevin Ehrhardt leading most of the year. However, Harla “Renae” Loney has recently emerged at the top of the list.
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RICHARD HUGHES slashed the gap in the jockeys' title race to just three after a fabulous four-timer at Bath on Tuesday afternoon.
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Grade I winner Data Link, who set a course record at Monmouth Park in his previous race, tops a field of nine older turf specialists entered in the Aug. 11 Fourstardave Handicap (gr. IIT) at Saratoga Race Course.
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Alternation seeks redemption for Pin Oak Stable in the $200,000 Governor's Cup Stakes at Remington Park Aug. 11, and should be able to find it against a short field of four others.
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The 3-year-old trotting filly Check Me Out returns to the races this Friday (Aug. 10) at The Meadows, after finishing third-placed-eighth for interference while on a break in the final turn at odds of 3-5 in the Hambletonian Oaks on Aug. 4.
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Alternation, who saw a four-stakes win streak snap in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap June 16, returns to action for owner-breeder Pin Oak Stable and trainer Donnie Von Hemel in Saturday's $200,000 Governor's Cup at Remington Park. The son of Distorted Humor figures to be a prohibitive favorite against four rivals going 1 1/8 miles
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My Big Boy, a grade I winner for Heidi Doubleday, died July 30 at Doubleday’s After Hours Farm in Marshall, Va. The son of Our Hero was 29. My Big Boy initially raced as a homebred for Doubleday’s grandmother, Mrs. Ogden Phipps, winning the 1986 Japan Racing Association Handicap at Laurel on grass in course-record time. Doubleday received My Big Boy following her grandmother’s death in November 1987.
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The 2012 Championship Meet at the Meadowlands Racetrack will end with a bang – literally - on Friday, August 17. Fireworks, live music, eight stakes races, the Vernon/Meadowlands Drivers' Championship and unbelievable prize drawings are in store at the track's Summer Finale. The evening kicks off at a special 6:35 p.m. post time and concludes with a spectacular fireworks show after the last race.
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Multiple Grade 1 winner Sassy Image, looking for her first victory in over a year, is among four graded stakes winners set to contest the Gardenia Stakes (G3) for fillies and mares Saturday at Ellis Park.
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Its Complicated made things pretty simple Tuesday (Aug. 7) at The Meadows when he captured a division of a $311,725 Pennsylvania Sires Stakes in 1:56, fastest this year by a 2-year-old getting trotter on a five-eighths-mile track.
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Joyful Victory and Sassy Image top a strong field of 11 fillies and mares in the $100,000 Gardenia Stakes (gr. III) Aug. 11 at Ellis Park, the first race back in Kentucky for jockey Robby Albarado since his May 4 arrest in a domestic violence dispute.
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This Week: The Grand Circuit is off this week. Racing will resume the week of August 12 at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis, and Harrah’s Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.
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Captaintreacherous, from the first crop of 2008 Horse of the Year Somebeachsomewhere, made a big splash with his first stakes appearance, winning the $309,050 Woodrow Wilson on Hambletonian Day (August 4) at the Meadowlands Racetrack in 1:49.3.
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Three newcomers joined the rankings in this week’s Hambletonian Society/Breeders Crown poll while Chapter Seven took over the top spot. The 4-year-old trotting horse Chapter Seven, who equaled the all-age world record of 1:50.1 for trotters on a mile track in winning the Nat Ray, grabbed 16 first place votes and 297 points, nine ahead of previous leader Check Me Out, who broke stride in the Hambletonian Oaks and was third placed eighth.
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