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August 2, 2012 10:17 PM
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Randleston Farm's Spy in the Sky was sent off the 25-1 longest shot on the board in Thursday's Grade 1, $100,000 A.P. Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase at Saratoga but ran like a favorite when posting a nose victory in the 2 1/16-mile hurdle contest.
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August 2, 2012 6:35 PM
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Shackleford arrived at Saratoga Race Course fit and feisty the morning of Aug. 2, ready to tackle seven other runners in the $400,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap (gr. I) on Aug. 4.
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August 2, 2012 6:35 PM
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For the 10 Standardbred riders going postward between the fourth and fifth races on Saturday, August 4 at the Meadowlands Racetrack, the 25,000-plus fans expected on Hambletonian Day may be the largest crowd to ever witness a racing under saddle event in North America. The race also boasts a number of other “firsts” in Standardbred racing.
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August 2, 2012 6:34 PM
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He was a good 2 year old, but this year Coraggioso is even better, and arguably the best of the 3-year-old colt trotters in the rich New York Sire Stakes (NYSS).
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August 2, 2012 4:24 PM
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Two-time Washington Horse of the Year Noosa Beach will miss the Longacres Mile (gr. III) Aug. 19 at Emerald Downs and is going to take the rest of the year off, trainer Doris Harwood said Aug. 2.
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August 2, 2012 3:50 PM
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He was a good 2-year-old, but this year Coraggioso is even better, and arguably the best of the 3-year-old colt trotters in the rich New York Sire Stakes.
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August 2, 2012 3:49 PM
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Calibrachoa, a former claimed turned into a five-time New York Grade 3winner by trainer Todd Pletcher for owner Mike Repole, was retired from racing this week.
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August 2, 2012 12:50 PM
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An instant after his horse took a full-speed tumble, Jacky Martin's riding career ended. Paralyzed from his neck down, Martin received stabilizing treatments at several hospitals, including TIRR at Memorial Hermann.
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August 2, 2012 10:27 AM
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Hoosier Park Racing & Casino launched its 64-day Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse meet Aug. 1 and will offer live racing through Oct. 27.
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August 2, 2012 9:31 AM
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A fast track and driver Jim Morrill, Jr. is what the 'Doctor' ordered, Doctor Butch that is, as he set a new Batavia Downs track record for 2-year-old colt and gelding pacers in a $36,900 division of the New York Sires Stakes on Wednesday night (August 1). Before the dust settled another speed record would fall.
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August 2, 2012 9:31 AM
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The Ohio State Fair is in full swing north of downtown Columbus, but the fair's stakes races start Thursday night south of the city at Scioto Downs. Six divisions of Ohio State Fair races will be contested on Thursday evening, followed by four divisions on both Friday and Saturday.
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August 2, 2012 9:30 AM
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Diamond Joe, a Nebraska-based 3-year-old who has won his last seven starts by a combined margin of 48 lengths, could get his first significant class test next month in the $400,000 Oklahoma Derby. Trainer Chuck Turco said the horse is being considered for the Remington Park race that Diamond Joe’s sire, Dazzling Falls, won for Turco in 1995.
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August 1, 2012 11:10 PM
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Todd Pletcher, who has won the Saratoga training title eight times, would be the first to tell you that much of his success at the Spa depends on the performance of his two-year-olds. So far in 2012, things are looking pretty good for Pletcher.
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August 2, 2012 6:36 PM
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Trainer John Gosden's pair of Izzi Top and The Fugue top the field of eight fillies and mares set for the Markel Insurance Nassau Stakes (Eng-G1) on Saturday at Goodwood.
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August 2, 2012 6:35 PM
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Eclipse Award champion Acclamation returned to the worktab Thursday morning as he begins preparations for a title defense in the TVG Pacific Classic (G1) August 26 at Del Mar.
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August 2, 2012 6:35 PM
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When Mike Merton scored five consecutive driving victories in the first five races on the Monticello Raceway card of June 28 he claimed, with tongue in cheek, that when he got dumped out and fell on his head in an early morning qualifying race that it must have done something to him when he had his best day in years.
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August 2, 2012 6:34 PM
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Canadian filly Dixie Strike was so impressive in winning the Prince of Wales Stakes on dirt last month that trainer Mark Casse sent her to Saratoga Race Course to run in the Alabama Stakes (gr. I). Those plans changed when Queen's Plate winner Strait of Dover was withdrawn from consideration for the $500,000 Breeders' Stakes on home soil.
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August 2, 2012 4:24 PM
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Grade 1 winner Take Charge Indy, sidelined with an injury following the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1), has re-joined trainer Patrick Byrne's string at Churchill Downs with a fall campaign as his target.
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August 2, 2012 3:50 PM
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With three track records falling already in the young season, Batavia Downs Casino and Racetrack welcomes another night of New York Sire Stakes racing on Friday (August 3).
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August 2, 2012 12:50 PM
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While the bigger names in the Hambletonian are getting most of the pre-race hype, there are others in the race who could surprise. That list includes Money On My Mind, Gym Tan Laundry and Guccio, the latter being overlooked since he is the stablemate of Hambo favorite Uncle Peter.
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August 2, 2012 10:39 AM
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The top three finishers in each of the three Hambletonian eliminations last weekend at the Meadowlands advanced to Saturday afternoon's $1.5 million final, along with the richest fourth-place finisher. With the Jim Campbell trainees Stormin Normand ($591,202) and Possess The Will ($580,762) the richest of the 25 starters, they had an advantage if they would finish fourth in their elims.
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August 2, 2012 10:26 AM
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A pair of $54,000 events for Illinois conceived and foaled 2-year-old trotters shared top billing on Wednesday at Balmoral Park as a field of eight colts squared off in the Plesac Stake while 10 of their female counterparts met in the Fox Valley Flan Stake.
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August 2, 2012 9:31 AM
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Wednesday’s (August 1) edition of Racing Roundup features results stories from Vernon Downs and Saratoga Casino and Raceway
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August 2, 2012 9:30 AM
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Brian Zendt drove the 2,000th winner of his career when he piloted Hall Of Memories to victory in Wednesday's sixth race at The Meadows Racetrack & Casino.
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August 1, 2012 11:10 PM
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James Street is back to defend his title in the $150,000 Seagram Cup (Can-III) against six opponents over the Polytrack Aug. 4 at Woodbine.
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