Racing: Rogerson talks up colt&#39;s Derby chances
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MELBOURNE - Graeme Rogerson peeled off a $100 note for a busker whose rendition of The Goondiwindi Grey was driving racing fans nuts at Flemington&#39;s &quot;breakfast with the stars&quot; gallops yesterday.
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Roman Ruler will go to Lone Star Park as a probable favorite for the $1.5 million Breeders&#39; Cup Juvenile on Oct. 30 and the full confidence of trainer Bob Baffert.
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NEW KENT, Va., July 21 -- When jockey Horacio Karamanos arrived at Colonial Downs on Saturday morning, he knew he had mounts in nine of the 10 races scheduled. The one race the leading rider at the track was left out of was the big one, the Grade II $1 million Virginia Derby, but that changed whe...
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GRAND PRAIRIE, Tex. - Trainer D. Wayne Lukas threw a jolt into Saturday&#39;s Breeders&#39; Cup XXI at Lone Star Park yesterday with the electrifying announcement that champion
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In one of the biggest upsets â-nd most controversial finishes â -the year, a 27-1 betting orphan named Better Talk Now won the $2 million Breeders&#39; Cup Turf
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It was typical of D Wayne Lukas that he chose to reveal an unexpected change of plan for Azeri, in American eyes the &quot;marquee&quot; horse of the Breeders&#39; Cup meeting, at the moment of maximum effect.
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Leave it to D. Wayne Lukas to add intrigue to an already appealing Breeders&#39; Cup Classic. By entering Azeri in Saturday&#39;s $4 million Classic, the Hall of Fame trainer is taking a huge gamble that his brilliant
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If D. Wayne Lukas, Bob Baffert, Bobby Frankel, Jerry Bailey and Pat Day are at the same track on the same day, it must be the Breeders&#39; Cup.
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A year after winning a record four Breeders&#39; Cup races, trainer Richard Mandella is back with only one chance. That chance, though, is with Pleasantly Perfect, who will try to become the second horse to win
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The favourite for today&#39;s race at Flemington is attempting to become the first mare to win two Melbourne Cups and just the fifth horse in the race&#39;s 143-year history to win it
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There's an adage around the racetrack that goes like this: When betting a major stakes race, always pick the shipper who arrives on the grounds first. That tip is based on the premise that the trainer has devoted full attention to acclimating the invader to unfamiliar circumstances, and it does have a ring of truth to it.
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Trainer Lee Freedman wants to take on the world with yesterday&#39;s Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva. At least the race that Freedman believes is the centre of the thoroughbred world, the Prix de l&#39;Arc de Triomph in Paris.
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Trainer Bruce Levine admitted to having a couple of worries yesterday going into the Grade II $300,000 General George Breeders' Cup Handicap: His lightly raced but blazingly fast chestnut colt Bustin Stones likely would face pace pressure from horses starting to his outside, and the sprints earli...
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When Afrashad was entered in yesterday's James B. Moseley Sprint Handicap at Suffolk Downs, his handlers weren't sure what to expect. It was just the 5-year-old thoroughbred's second race back since having a bone chip taken out of his knee last fall. On Aug. 13 at Saratoga, he ran fourth in his only outing before heading here.
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He is a mass of contradictions. In the jeweled circle of &quot;celebrity&quot; trainers of thoroughbred horses, he is the face at the edge of the crowd because that&#39;s as close as he wants to get to it.
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FLEMINGTON racecourse manager Terry Watson will walk the track with outspoken Irish trainer Dermot Weld on Melbourne Cup eve. And Watson is confident, providing the weather is kind over the next week, that
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When Smarty Jones was retired following the Triple Crown, it took some sizzle out of the racing scene. But one doesn't have to be an insider to appreciate the field for the $4 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Lone Star Park Oct. 30. It may not be the Kentucky Derby, but a field doesn't get any better than this.