Breeders' Cup ends on tragic note
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OCEANPORT, New Jersey  - The Breeders' Cup came to a thrilling but tragic end on Saturday.
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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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One day after a plane crash killed several members of the Hendrick family and some of the team's top management, the Nascar community is only beginning to grieve.
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The career-ending breakdown of the Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro has brought urgency to reducing the number of catastrophic injuries to racehorses.
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PARIS Horse racing can be a tough sport to follow. There&#39;s no World Series, no Final Four, no definitive crowning of a single champion.
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The Breeders&#39; Cup is making its first visit to Texas and not everyone thinks the world of it. There has been grumbling about the tight-turned turf course that has scared away many European runners.
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OCEANPORT, N.J. - The 2-year-old babies won emphatically, the horses who shipped in from Europe could fare no better than second, and although several long shots prevailed in yesterday's Breeders' Cup at Monmouth Park, the races were not as adversely affected by three days of pelting rain as initially feared by some handicappers.
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Itâs sad to think that NASCAR has gotten so good at this. Weâve watched their response to tragedy too many times not to recognize the seriousness of a situation.
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Ashado for 3-year-old filly champion. No doubt about it, after her winning the Breeders&#39; Cup Distaff here yesterday. The Kentucky Oaks heroine had gone through a summer
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Nine years ago, I had a thoroughbred mare who came down with colic in the night, and was too far gone to save by the time she was found at 6 a.m. After she was euthanized, I remember staring at her body, which was stretched out in the grass, running my hands over her. Her coat was shining. Her haunch was rounded and firm. Her feet and legs were perfect. Only that one thing had been wrong, that twist in her gut, but it was enough, and it killed her. So it is with all horses....
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PRAIRIE, Texas -- The Breeders&#39; Cup has been something of a mobile house of horrors for trainer Bobby Frankel, but that all changed in two minutes on Saturday.
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Racetracks across Australia were all but shut down Saturday, the country's richest horse race is in doubt and losses could total more than a billion dollars after an outbreak of equine influenza.
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Notre Dame, IN - There were some intense final moments in Saturdayâs Notre Dame game, which led to a disappointing finish for the Irish.
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That we are writing about racing and championships in the wake of the tragedy that befell Rick Hendrick and Hendrick Motorsports on Sunday seems crass and insensitive at best, but the truth is the racing will continue and a Nextel Cup champion will be
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Better Talk Now got the best of a rough race to win Saturday&#39;s $2 million Breeders&#39; Cup Turf by 1 3/4 lengths over the favorite, Kitten&#39;s Joy.
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Curlin runs down early leader Hard Spun in the stretch, pulling away with the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic and cementing his legacy among his three-year old peers.
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English and Irish classic winner Ouija Board (GB) more than justified the hype surrounding her presence in the $1-million Breedersâ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1), surging past Grade 1 winner Film Maker in the lane to capture the 1 3/8-mile contest at