Ashado in Winning Breeders&#39; Cup Start
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Ashado, ridden by John Velazquez, won the $2 million Distaff Race at Lone Star Park Saturday, the first event on the $14 million eight-race Breeders&#39; Cup card.
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Singletary, a 4-year-old colt named for former Chicago Bears linebacker Mike Singletary, broke away from the back at the top of the stretch and won the Breeders&#39; Cup Mile on Saturday, setting off a boisterous celebration.
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Owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey already have two Breeders&#39; Cup starters in Classic contender Roses in May and likely Turf favorite Kitten&#39;s Joy.
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Makybe Diva became the first mare to score a repeat victory in the Melbourne Cup at Flemington Racecourse on Tuesday, after which her trainer Lee Freedman said that she could be pointed to
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Any Given Saturday continued on the road to the Breeders' Cup Classic with a victory yesterday in the $154,200 Brooklyn Handicap at Belmont Park in New York.
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It was a day of firsts in the Breeders' Cup, as the inaugural running of three races in the expanded championship series produced two jockeys and a trainer who nailed their first Cup winners.
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A Dallas native, Pletcher won his first Breeders&#39; Cup race in the first Breeders&#39; Cup race run in the state of Texas when his filly Ashado captured the $2 million Breeders&#39; Cup Distaff on Saturday at Lone Star Park.
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OCEANPORT, New Jersey  - Preakness winner Curlin out dueled Kentucky Derby champion Street Sense to capture the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday.
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It&#39;s time for racing&#39;s fall season, so count on Bobby Frankel saddling a few strong contenders. The Hall of Fame trainer will try to win the $500,000 Yellow Ribbon Stakes for the fourth time with Light Jig, a 4-year-old bred in Britain.
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There is a sense in which 99% of the runners at the Breeders&#39; Cup tonight are visitors. The course has never staged this meeting before - in fact, it is less than a decade since they dug Lone Star Park&#39;s foundations
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Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro broke down at the start and broke the hearts of racing fans as Bernardini went on to win the &#36;1 million Preakness Stakes on Saturday.
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TRIUMPHANT trainer Lee Freedman is convinced Makybe Diva can win the Prix de l&#39;Arc de Triomphe. Freedman says the dual Melbourne Cup winner has all the ingredients to beat the world&#39;s best horses
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Ouija Board and Wilko are the only British contenders at the 21st Breeders&#39; Cup, to be run for the first time at Lone Star Park, Texas, a week on Saturday.
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No stranger to brash statements, jockey Corey Nakatani has a firm goal for Saturday&#39;s Breeders&#39; Cup program at Lone Star Park.
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Botswana president Festus Mogae&#39;s ruling party led in early results today and, with the opposition split, looked set to win overall in parliamentary elections in the world&#39;s biggest diamond producer.
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Ashado grabbed the lead in the stretch and got the Breeders&#39; Cup off to a rousing start for trainer Todd Pletcher by winning the $2 million Distaff at Lone Star Park on Saturday.
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Jerry Bailey greeted the shift of the champion mare Azeri to the $4 million Breeders&#39; Cup Classic as a double shot of good news.