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Peter Moody, trainer of undefeated reigning Australian Horse of the Year Black Caviar, told the Melbourne Herald-Sun on Monday that the international superstar would miss this year's Melbourne spring carnival and that he and Black Caviar's ownership group would arrive at a final decision on her racing future in September after the Australian Horse of the Year Awards ceremony. 
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Trainer Dale Romans confirmed Monday morning that multiple Grade 1 winner Shackleford will run in the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap (G1) at six furlongs on Sunday, August 5.
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Queen's Plate winner Strait of Dover, who would have been favored in the Breeders' Stakes on turf at Woodbine Aug. 5, is out for the season with a leg injury.
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Yonkers Raceway offers its own version of freshman orientation this week, as New York Sire Stakes 2-year-old young ladies make a pair of appearances.
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It is a tradition for the reigning Miss New Jersey to meet her equine counterpart in the winner’s circle of the Thomas D’Altrui Sr. Miss New Jersey Stakes for 3-year-old New Jersey-sired pacing fillies.
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A total of 10 fillies is eligible for the Group 1 Nassau Stakes, run over just shy of 1 1/4 miles on the final day of Glorious Goodwood Saturday.
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It was a just a 2-year-old maiden event, squeezed in between the Grade 2 Amsterdam Stakes at Saratoga and Grade 1 Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park, but Sunday’s third race at Del Mar felt like a really big deal to Yuichi Fukunaga, a star jockey in Japan who has been on a month-long “oh-fer” since arriving in the United States in late June to compete during a relatively slow period for horse racing in his homeland.
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The five-day Glorious Goodwood meeting gets underway Tuesday. The feature race of the opening day is the seven-furlong Group 2, £140,000 Lennox Stakes which has attracted seven runners, headed by Libranno, successful on his last two starts, classic-placed Foxtrot Romeo and Chachamaidee from Sir Henry Cecil's Newmarket stable.
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Just as they did the night before with Fox Valley Steffen, trainer Joel Smith and driver Dale Hiteman teamed up to pull off another upset, this time getting Powerful Star home with a half-length triumph in the $51,000 Fox Evita Stake final for Illinois conceived and foaled 3-year-old trotting fillies on Sunday (July 29) at Balmoral Park. The final time of 1:56.3 was a career best for the daughter of Powerful Emotion-Star Slinger.
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Royal Assets powered to the front and brooked no serious challengers en route to victory in a stakes-record 1:57.3 in a division of Tuesday’s (July 17) $100,000 Pennsylvania Stallion Series event at The Meadows.
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Godolphin's Farhh, trained by Saeed bin Suroor, will be supplemented to the Group 1 Sussex and take on the unbeaten Frankel in the Goodwood mile race on August 1, provided the ground is not too fast.
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A historic victory by jockey Chantal Sutherland in the Grade 1, $500,000 Hollywood Gold Cup aboard Game on Dude, the dominance of Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert and jockey Rafael Bejarano, the emergence of the dynamic two-year-old filly Executiveprivilege, Kentucky Derby and Preakness wins by local hero I'll Have Another and the opening of the Hollywood Park Players Lounge were among the highlights of the Spring/Summer meet. The 50-day season at Hollywood Park concluded Sunday.
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Keeneland, in partnership with Shadwell Farm, announced Monday that the purse for the Grade 1 Shadwell Turf Mile will be increased to $750,000 for its 27th running on FallStars Saturday, October 6.
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C C's Pal, who has won or placed in 22 of 30 starts for owner Eric Fein and trainer Rick Dutrow, tops the eight-horse field of older fillies and mares entered in the Aug. 3 Honorable Miss Stakes (gr. II) at Saratoga Race Course.
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Unbeaten Frankel returns to the turf on Wednesday as the central highlight of this week’s tradition-rich five-day Glorious Goodwood meeting, and the reigning European Horse of the Year has apparently intimidated the connections of nearly all potential challengers as he seeks to extend his career record to 12 wins from as many starts.
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Thursday's Grade 1, $100,000 A.P. Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase at Saratoga has a 2011 look about it as the top three finishers from last year's renewal will do battle again in the 2 1/16-mile prep for the Grade 1 New York Turf Writers Cup, which is scheduled for August 23.
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For the last 20 years or so, trainer Peter Arrigenna had the same response whenever someone asked when he would attend the Hambletonian at the Meadowlands Racetrack rather than watch the race on television.
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It was an interesting morning for Grade 1 Whitney candidate Fort Larned, whose final breeze in company for Saturday's race included an encounter with another horse galloping in close proximity to the rail near the half-mile pole.
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The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) will celebrate women and their contributions to the Thoroughbred industry with a special day appropriately titled "Fabulous Fillies Day" on August 17 at Saratoga Race Course.
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Trainer Dale Romans confirmed Monday morning that multiple Grade 1 winner Shackleford will run in the Grade 1, $400,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap on Sunday at Saratoga.
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Frankel heads to Glorious Goodwood on Wednesday for the Group 1, £316,500 Sussex Stakes. The Sir Henry Cecil-trained four-year-old sauntered to a facile five-length victory over Canford Cliffs in last year's renewal of the prestigious mile contest and will be aiming to stretch his unbeaten run to 12 races in the 2012 renewal.
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It may sound corny, but every now and then harness racing fans are treated to “real” racing.
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The Maryland Jockey Club unveiled the 2012 Laurel fall schedule Tuesday after reaching agreement with both the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association and Maryland Horse Breeders Association. The schedule was approved by the Maryland Racing Commission earlier Tuesday at its monthly meeting.
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Champion older male Acclamation returns to Del Mar with the targets of defending titles in the Grade 1 Eddie Read and Grade 1, $1 million Pacific Classic this year.
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The winners of such Group 1 races as the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Melbourne Cup, Japan Derby, Coronation Cup and Eclipse are among 12 acceptors for a truly international King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.
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