Horse racing: Colt beats a virus and the champions
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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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Somewhere among nearly 100 horses getting ready to run in the eight Breeders&#39; Cup races Saturday at Lone Star Park, Jerkens the &quot;Giant Killer&quot; has two contenders.
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It is final tuneup time for quite a few horses on the road to the Breedersâ Cup at Monmouth Park on Oct. 27. The Haskell Invitational winner Any Given Saturday tops a field of five in todayâs Brooklyn Handicap, while Grasshopper, the Travers Stakes runner-up, is the favorite in a 10-horse field for the Super Derby at Louisiana Downs. Also, Octave takes on seven rivals in the Fitz Dixon Cotillion at Philadelphia Park as she continues her run to the $2 million Breedersâ Cup Distaff. Overshadowed by her stablemate Rags to Riches (out for the year with an injury), Octave won the Mother Goose and the Coaching Club American Oaks before finishing third in the Alabama in her previous race.
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In the spirit of Texas Hold &#39;Em, The Breeders&#39; Cup is raising the stakes. Horse racing&#39;s richest day is gambling on an untested racetrack tomorrow for the second time
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Hialeah becomes the first horse-racing track to install a photo-finish camera. It's a big refinement for the "sport of kings."
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As all experienced racetrackers realize, picking horses a few days before the races are run is no way to bet winners. Too much new information surfaces at the last minute to make bets earlier than the last possible moment.
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A POTENTIALLY devastating equine disease has been detected in the heart of Newmarket&#39;s multi-million pound bloodstock industry.
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Australian authorities cancelled  thoroughbred racing in a second state on Tuesday, including the  iconic outback Birdsville races, as the nation&#39;s first outbreak  of equine flu spread.
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Easy Red gallops powerfully between rivals in the stretch and beats favorite Tartlet by a head to take the $75,000 Jennings Handicap for Maryland breds in Laurel on Saturday.
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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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While their sporting name might be more synonymous with horse racing, Ahmed al-Maktoum achieved a gold medal for his famous family yesterday on an historic afternoon of shooting.
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TONY EASTLEY: The sport of kings is looking a little common in Britain today, where a race-fixing scandal has engulfed the horse racing industry.
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Australian officials were Wednesday hoping to hold &#39;phantom&#39; horse races, in which spectators and punters would be banned from the track, in a bid to offset losses from the equine influenza outbreak.
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Thoroughbred racing is a tradition-rich sport, but its chief downfall always has been that customs cause meaningful change to drag along at a glacial pace. The Breeders' Cup World Championships Friday and Saturday at Monmouth Park will be an exception, with the foremost twist being an expansion of the series from eight to 11 races, spread over ...
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The $14 million Breeders&#39; Cup at Lone Star Park today shapes up like a &quot;Texas shootout,&quot; according to the Daily Racing Form.
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Sport: Irish champion jockey and trainer Jonjo O'Neill on his battle with cancer, and a Boxing Day showdown with his horse's nemesis, Kauto Star
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The Colts&#39; 24-17 triumph at ALLTEL Stadium allowed them to retain their status as the team to beat in the division and the primary challenger to the New England Patriots in the AFC.