Best of 3 Derby Preps Could Be at Aqueduct
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There will be a brief respite from the February doldrums on Saturday at Aqueduct.
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Jockey Stewart Elliott made a successful visit to Aqueduct as he swept both stakes on the Election Day card. Elliott, who came to prominence as the regular jockey of 2004
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Most thoroughbred championships are decided by the end of a typical Breeders&#39; Cup day, and Saturday&#39;s eight championship events at Lone Star Park probably succeeded in that mission.
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It's been nearly 20 years since a filly won a Triple Crown race, and more than a century since a filly won the Belmont Stakes.
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In the other Breeders&#39; Cup races, trainer Todd Pletcher ended an 0-for-12 run with two winners, Ashado in the $2 million Distaff, and Speightstown in the $1 million Sprint; and there were three major upsets: 17-1 long shot Singletary won the $1.
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For just the third time in 36 years, the Belmont Stakes will be run without either the Kentucky Derby or Preakness Stakes winner.
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Stewart Elliott rode Summer Raven to victory in the Tempted Stakes, and led Rockport Harbor to a win in the Nashua Stakes in the co-feature Grade 3 stakes races at Aqueduct on Tuesday.
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Accustomed to the big tracks at Laurel Park, Pimlico, Colonial Downs and Delaware, not every trainer and jockey looks forward to saddling a horse for "bullring" racing in Timonium.
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Preakness winner Curlin was made the 6-5 favorite Wednesday for the $1 million Belmont Stakes, with the filly Rags to Riches the third choice at 3-1 in a field of seven 3-year-olds.
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There will be a Pick Six carryover into today's Breeders' Cup races.
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Four major races will be held tomorrow as earnest preparation begins for the Breeders' Cup at Lone Star Oct. 30. Belmont Park will host the $300,000 Matron for 2-year-old fillies, at 1 mile, the $300,000 Futurity, for 2-year-old colts, also at a mile, and the $300,000 Ruffian Handicap for fillies and mares at a mile and one-16th. Woodbine will hold ...
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"He ran second to a monster," trainer Bill Kaplan said in describing how his colt, Drums of Thunder, was runner-up to Nobiz Like Shobiz in last Saturday's Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
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Azeri will try to beat the boys again, this time in the $4 million Breeders&#39; Cup Classic. Trainer D. Wayne Lukas made the surprise announcement Tuesday, declaring 2002 Horse of the Year Azeri &quot;all in&quot; for the 1\\-mile Classic on Saturday.
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The 10th running of the Virginia Derby on Saturday at Colonial Downs has become the primary target of any trainer with a top-quality 3-year-old turf horse.
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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Leave it to D. Wayne Lukas to add intrigue to an appealing Breeders&#39; Cup Classic. By entering Azeri in today&#39;s $4 million Classic, the Hall of Fame trainer is taking a huge gamble that
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The &#36;4 million Breeders' Cup Classic is shaping up as a doozy of a race &#151; even without Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Smarty Jones.
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Trainer D. Wayne Lukas announced yesterday he will enter champion mare Azeri against the males in Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic at Lone Star Park, but she'll have to be better than good to defeat defending champion Pleasantly Perfect. A son of Pleasant Colony, Pleasantly Perfect overcame a serious illness to develop into a monster, and he ...