Owners of a Breedersâ Cup Champion Must Decide if He Will Return
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Jess Jackson and his four partners must decide whether to retire Curlin, who captured the $5 million Breedersâ Cup Classic, or race him next year as a 4-year-old.
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Trainer Dale Romans said the enormity of having the favorite in Saturday&#39;s $2million Breeders&#39; Cup Turf and another live shot in the $4million
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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 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 ...
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The Green Monkey, the worldâs most expensive racehorse, must win soon for his owners to recoup their $16 million investment.
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By insisting that the racehorse he owns a share in continues to compete, Ron Bamberger is giving racing enthusiasts a rare treat: seeing a horse improve with age.
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He is the old man of the Breeders' Cup, ancient as far as world-class thoroughbreds are concerned, and Better Talk Now is far from easing gracefully into the twilight of his career at age 8.
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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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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas  - Azeri, Horse of the Year  in 2002 and a near certainty for the Distaff Race in the  Breeders' Cup at Lone Star Park Saturday, is to run instead in  the tougher but much more prestigious $4 million Classic.
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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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Former Horse of the Year Azeri will run against males in the $4 million Breedersâ Cup Classic on Saturday, according to trainer D. Wayne Lukas.
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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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The top three Kentucky Derby finishers - Street Sense, Hard Spun, and Curlin - will meet again in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic in a race that most likely will settle Horse of the Year.
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Azeri will try to beat the boys again, this time in the $4 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Lone Star Park on Saturday.
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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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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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Two officials differ on the future of a storied outdoor race.