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June 11, 2012 10:01 AM
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Doug McNair may look like your average 22-year-old, but not too many people his age have the opportunity to drive away a winner in the world's richest Standardbred pacing event.
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June 11, 2012 10:00 AM
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From Above, a winner of four of six starts as a 2 year old, including stakes both weeks during the fall Grand Circuit meet at The Red Mile, won his second start behind the gate this year when he qualified at the Meadowlands Friday morning.
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June 8, 2012 10:12 AM
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Jockey Rosie Napravnik was cleared to ride by the medical staff at Belmont Park after being unseated at the start of the seventh race on Thursday, while jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. was taken to the hospital complaining of neck and back pain after falling from his mount later in the race.
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June 8, 2012 10:12 AM
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Morton Fink’s homebred Wise Dan completed his major training preparations for the June 16 Stephen Foster Handicap (gr. I) at Churchill Downs with a bullet, five-furlong work in :59 2/5 for trainer Charlie Lopresti June 7 over the synthetic Polytrack surface at Keeneland.
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June 8, 2012 9:50 AM
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Tioga Downs, in conjunction with the United States Trotting Association's Strategic Wagering Program, will offer a $5,000 guaranteed pick four on Sunday, June 10, for the Bettor's Delight and Artiscape races. The pick four will be spread out from race nine ($182,000 Bettor's Delight) through the final race, number twelve on the afternoon race card.
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June 8, 2012 9:49 AM
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With nine-furlong misses in the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks and Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks behind her, Yara will cut back to a six-furlong sprint for Saturday's $75,000 Leave Me Alone Stakes, her first start since a failed attempt at attaining Oaks glory in Kentucky.
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June 8, 2012 9:49 AM
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If A Rocknroll Dance is as difficult to catch on the racetrack as he is in the field, trainer Jim Mulinix could be looking at a big season with the colt.
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June 7, 2012 11:10 AM
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Shivananda Racing's Trinniberg will cut back to a more favorable distance June 9 in the $400,000 Woody Stephens Stakes (gr. II) for 3-year-olds at Belmont Park, but he could have his hands full.
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June 7, 2012 9:21 AM
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Running Aces opened its fifth season of live racing Wednesday night (June 6) to a large, enthusiastic crowd just as it has in each of the Minnesota track’s first four seasons. Despite a heavy rainstorm that lasted an hour just prior to first race post, more than 2,000 patrons packed the compact grandstand and apron and wagered $116,749 -- a 20 percent increase over the 2011 opener.
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June 7, 2012 9:20 AM
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Off for more than eight months, champion Acclamation makes his much-awaited return in the $250,000 Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap (gr. IT) at Betfair Hollywood Park June 9, a race he has won the past two years.
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June 7, 2012 9:20 AM
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The top three finishers from last month's Fort Marcy Stakes (G3) seek more success on the Belmont Park turf when they face off again in the Woodford Reserve Manhattan Handicap (G1), the race immediately preceding the Belmont Stakes (G1) on Saturday.
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June 7, 2012 9:19 AM
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The trio of Boisterous, Desert Blanc, and Top Surprize--the respective top three finishers in the Fort Marcy Stakes (gr. IIIT)--figure to make things interesting again in the Woodford Reserve Manhattan Handicap.
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June 6, 2012 12:28 PM
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Once again, Woodbine Entertainment Group will live stream the post position draw for the C$1.5 million Pepsi North America Cup.
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June 11, 2012 10:01 AM
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Night after night, Barry Addison was at Yonkers Raceway, hanging on the fence and watching the action. A resident of nearby Mount Vernon, N.Y., he had been going to the races for as long as he could remember, introduced to the sport by his grandfather, also named Barry.
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June 8, 2012 10:18 AM
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The top NY bred trotting sophomores will gather at Vernon Downs on Friday evening to contest the rich Empire Breeders Classic (EBC) finals.
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June 8, 2012 10:12 AM
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Besilu's Stable's Royal Delta, last year’s champion 3-year-old filly, will return to Churchill Downs for the first time since she capped her sophomore season with a 2 1/2-length victory in the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic (gr. I) in the Fleur de Lis Handicap (gr. II).
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June 8, 2012 10:11 AM
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Morton Fink's homebred Wise Dan completed his major training preparations for the Grade 1, $400,000 Stephen Foster Handicap on June 16 at Churchill Downs with a bullet five-furlong work in :59 2/5 for trainer Charlie Lopresti on Thursday over the synthetic Polytrack surface at Keeneland.
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June 8, 2012 9:50 AM
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When Mike Merton guided the trotter Marquee T to a 2:01.4 wire-to-wire victory at Monticello Raceway on Thursday (June 7), it marked his 2,000th career win.
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June 8, 2012 9:49 AM
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Trainer Jimmy Takter will be racing two colts in the North America Cup elims, a colt in the Goodtimes eliminations, and the fillies American Jewel and Romantic Moment are his representatives in the Fan Hanover eliminations for 3-year-old filly pacers.
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June 8, 2012 9:48 AM
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Trainer Bisnath Parboo and owner Shivananda Parbhoo, his son, will look to sweep two Grade 2 events for sprinters on the Belmont Stakes (G1) undercard Saturday in New York.
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June 7, 2012 10:25 AM
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After racing exclusively in New York State-bred contests for the first 10 starts of his career, Archangel’s connections decided to take him to the Breeders Crown to see what exactly they had in their barn and after a second to eventual victor Uncle Peter in an elimination and a sixth-place finish in the $600,000 final, they became convinced a piece of equipment that was aiding his performance was actually holding him back.
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June 7, 2012 9:21 AM
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If A Rocknroll Dance is as difficult to catch on the racetrack as he is in the field, trainer Jim Mulinix could be looking at a big season with the colt. The term "good feeling” is appropriate when talking about A Rocknroll Dance, who enters Saturday's eliminations for the C$1.5 million Pepsi North America Cup for 3-year-old male pacers at Mohawk Racetrack as one of the race's top contenders.
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June 7, 2012 9:20 AM
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An accomplished field of seasoned, older spinters, headed by grade I victors Smiling Tiger and Giant Ryan, will vie for victory in the $400,000 True North Handicap (gr. II) on Belmont Stakes Day at Belmont Park.
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June 7, 2012 9:20 AM
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With both fresh off powerful victories May 5, Winter Memories and Hungry Island get a chance to renew their rivalry in the Longines Just A Game Stakes (G1), one of two Grade 1 events on the Belmont Stakes undercard.
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June 6, 2012 3:05 PM
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Robert McNair hopes history repeats itself June 9 when Street Life, whom he co-owns, seeks to spoil the Triple Crown party of I'll Have Another. McNair owned part of Touch Gold, who denied Silver Charm the 1997 Triple Crown.
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