Winner of MassCap qualifies for Classic
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Suffolk Downs announced yesterday that the winner of the 66th Massachusetts Handicap Sept. 20 will automatically be eligible to race in the Breeders' Cup Classic Oct. 25 at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif.
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Before a standing-room-only crowd estimated at over 9,000, Kent Farrington won the crown jewel of the Fidelity Investments Jumper Classic, the $75,000 Grand Prix, on the equestrian field in south Hamilton on Sunday.
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With a playoff berth and a share of the Cape Ann Large title secured, the No. 9 Masconomet boys' soccer team had an opportunity to rest a few players in its final regular-season game. As a testament to the program's depth, those who played for the Chieftains yesterday excelled in a 4-0 victory over Waltham.
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Over-30 teams Atlantic Sportswear Remnants (Sudbury) Billerica Fakawee Cape Ann Gaspin' Greenheads (Ipswich) Concord Budmen (Manchester, N.H.) Coastal Riders (Hanover) MetroLacrosse Green Stale Doughnuts (Chelsea) MetroLacrosse Red Stale Doughnuts (Chelsea) Seacoast Ancient Mariners (Exeter, N.H.) South Shore Womps (Hingham) SNH Faded Glory (Merrimack, N.H.) Sudbury Olde Patriots Past champions:
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With none of Brookline's top varsity runners in sight, Whitman-Hanson senior Peter Gilmore recorded his first career invitational win yesterday. His time of 16 minutes 5 seconds led the Panthers to a first-place finish at the 48th annual Catholic Memorial Invitational.
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Bob Giusti didn't need to duplicate his first-round 66 to capture the sixth Cape Cod Senior Open. Par would've been enough. But Giusti struggled to a 4-over-par 75 yesterday at Hyannis Golf Club, opening the door for Tom Sullivan to claim his second title.
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The $4 million Classic, the feature event on Saturday&#39;s Breeders&#39; Cup card at Lone Star Park, just got tougher. Already loaded with talent
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American Colt Knost earned a possible invitation to next year's Masters by winning the U.S. amateur public links championship in Wheaton, Illinois on Saturday.
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Never before had this feat occurred in the Breeders&#39; Cup Classic: a father and son won the race in a span of six years, both with the same owner, who also owned the track.
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Gloucester's Natasha Smith turned in the top performance among the several Massachusetts athletes who competed at the National Scholastic Indoor Track and Field Championships at the Armory in New York yesterday.
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Taking control from the start, she cruised to a 2-3/4-length victory over Society Selection in yesterday&#39;s Grade I Beldame Stakes at Belmont Park.
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With 19 seconds to play and Holy Cross in control of last night's Patriot League tournament championship game, senior Brittany Keil flashed an appreciative smile toward the team's alumni cheering section. All 25 former players had been part of Holy Cross title teams, but Keil was proud to share one more with them.
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ELMONT, N.Y. -- Finally. Ultimately, if not decisively. After 102 years, a filly has won the Belmont Stakes.
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AMHERST -- When the Commonwealth Classic was born, it more than lived up to its name. In 1995, the occasional basketball battles between Boston College and the University of Massachusetts were codified into a yearly series. On a snowy December day, 18,974 people, paying $35 or $50 a ticket, packed the newly christened FleetCenter to watch a Final Four-bound UMass ...
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New England golf notebook Pros Chip Johnson of Hatherly CC in Scituate fired the low round of the tournament, a 3-under 68, to apply quite a finishing touch on the NEPGA Head Professional Championship at Shelter Harbor Golf Club in Rhode Island. At 3-under 139, Johnson won by two strokes over Greg Yeomans (71-70) of the Bay Club at Mattapoisett, ...
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BASEL, Switzerland  - Double Olympic gold  medallist Nicolas Massu registered his best win since Athens on  Friday, striding into the semifinals of the $1.26 million Swiss  Indoors tournament with a 6-2, 7-6 win over Bohdan Ulihrach.
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With the Eastern Massachussetts cross-country championships just a week away, yesterday's MSTCA Invitational at Franklin Park offered area runners a last chance to tune up for the title race.