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November 12, 2016 9:47 AM
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Emerald Downs has announced a 70-day live racing season in 2017, with opening night on Saturday, April 8 and closing day Sunday, September 17. The race dates were approved Thursday at the Washington Horse Racing Commission meeting. The 70-day season takes place over 24 weekends which is one more than 2016. Live racing is scheduled …
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November 11, 2016 4:19 PM
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Measuring what we saw on the racetrack, this year's Breeders' Cup was an unqualified success, with top stars giving us nail-biting performances and record crowds on hand to take in thrilling races with deep fields. But what else did the 2016 Breeders' Cup tell us? In this edition of The Friday Show, Scott Jagow and …
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November 10, 2016 4:07 PM
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In theory, having the 2015 Bing Crosby meeting open on the Thursday before the Breeders' Cup at Keeneland and mingle races with the Cup events on Friday and Saturday was supposed to be a business enhancer. In reality, it wasn't. Opening week numbers were down from the successful inaugural Crosby season of 2014. The focus …
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November 10, 2016 4:05 PM
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Big Lew Wins Los Alamitos Super Derby
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November 10, 2016 4:02 PM
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Sunland Park Releases $2.1-Million Quarter Horse Stakes Schedule
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November 10, 2016 3:59 PM
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TQHA Scholarship Deadline is December 1
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November 9, 2016 5:58 PM
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This week we travel to California as the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships returned to Santa Anita. All the event's pageantry and exciting finishes were captured in the great images taken by the talented photographers on hand. If you have any photos you would like to submit, email them to photos@paulickreport.com. Once again, we'd like to thank …
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November 9, 2016 5:51 PM
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George ‘Bucky' Sallee, who served as the bugler at Keeneland for close to fifty years, died Nov. 7. He was 87. A Lexington native, Sallee started at Keeneland in the 1960's, and continued to play there until his retirement in 2013. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, during his tenure at Keeneland Sallee played the “Call to the Post” …
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November 9, 2016 5:41 PM
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Talented turf stakes winner Toowindytohaulrox was euthanized earlier this week after suffering an injury during a workout at Santa Anita. Trainer Phil D'Amato told the Daily Racing Form that the 5-year-old horse by Harlan's Holiday, “…took a bad step breezing in the middle of the turn. It was a little misstep and two strides later my rider …
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November 9, 2016 5:34 PM
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Officials with Florida's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services have placed a quarantine on Barn 5 at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, Fla., after a horse stabled in that barn who died on Saturday tested positive for equine herpesvirus, a highly contagious disease. One strain of the disease, EHV-1, can be accompanied by neurological symptoms and may prove fatal for …
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November 4, 2016 12:45 PM
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A growing list of prominent owners and trainers are stepping up to support New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program by pledging a percentage of their 2016 Breeders' Cup World Championship purse earnings to support the program's mission to rehabilitate, retrain and rehome retired racehorses. Now in its seventh year, the Pledge has raised over $380,000, with …
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November 4, 2016 11:41 AM
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Multiple grade I winner Fly Till Dawn died in late October at Nick Lotz's Briarbrooke Farm in Paris, Ky., the farm where he was born and returned after being pensioned from his stallion career.
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November 4, 2016 11:38 AM
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November 11, 2016 4:23 PM
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Nearly 200 horses have been nominated to seven stakes, including the 25th running of the DeFrancis Dash, at Laurel Park November 19.
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November 11, 2016 4:14 PM
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To say that jockey Mike Smith had a ‘really good' Breeders' Cup weekend might be a bit of an understatement. The Hall of Fame rider won three Breeders' Cup races and was second in three others. His success garnered him this third Bill Shoemaker Award, which is awarded to the most outstanding jockey of the …
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November 10, 2016 4:06 PM
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November 10, 2016 4:04 PM
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Field Set for $264,398 Louisiana QHBA Derby
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November 10, 2016 4:00 PM
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Racing presentations, lead by Dr. Stanley medication presentation.
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November 10, 2016 3:51 PM
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QE II Cup in Japan, graded stakes in New York, rich Purebred Arabian action in the UAE and a look into the 2017 crystal ball at Gulfstream Park, all in weekend racing action, plus news from South Africa
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November 9, 2016 5:57 PM
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Up and coming three-year-old star Arrogate, winner of five straight races including the Grade I Travers Stakes by 13 ½ lengths and the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita Saturday, was named Horse of the Meet in the annual Autumn Meet media poll. The gray son of Unbridled's Song trained by Bob Baffert …
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November 9, 2016 5:49 PM
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Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens has announced that he will move his tack to Oaklawn Park for their winter season, according to the Daily Racing Form. Stevens will first ride the autumn meeting at Del Mar, heading to Arkansas before opening day on Jan. 13. “It's more money, more opportunities and more horses,” said …
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November 9, 2016 5:37 PM
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Phil Georgeff, the voice of Chicago racing for more than 30 years and known for his trademark call “here they come spinning out of the turn,” has died at the age of 85. Mr. Georgeff launched his career at the old Washington Park in Homewood, Ill., in 1959 and retired at the end of the …
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November 4, 2016 12:46 PM
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Arrogate/Hoppertunity – Bob Baffert's two Breeders' Cup Classic entrants both jogged 1m Thursday as the Hall of Fame trainer began the final approach to his 24th Breeders' Cup. Breeders' Cup weeks are always hectic and stressful for marquee trainers, but Baffert assessed this one as comparatively “quiet” for him. “It's more stressful when you're at …
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November 4, 2016 12:39 PM
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The Triple Crown aside, there is no event in North American racing with more buildup than the Breeders' Cup, and this year's edition looks like it should live up to or even surpass the loftiest expectations. The Distaff and the Classic have memorable written all over them, and deep, full fields abound in many of …
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November 4, 2016 11:39 AM
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