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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When Pleasantly Perfect won the Breeders&#39; Cup World Thoroughbred Championship Classic last year, he didn&#39;t have to go very far - the event was held at his home track in Santa Anita.
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Somethinaboutbetty overcomes nearly every challenge and races to victory on Saturday in the $45,000 Alma North stakes at Timonium.
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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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The Colts dominated every aspect of Monday nightâs showdown against the Jacksonville Jaguars, easily winning and once again taking charge in the A.F.C. South.
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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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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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The $4 million Classic, the feature event on Saturday's Breeders' Cup card at Lone Star Park, just got tougher. Already loaded with talent, the Classic picked up another star attraction when owner Michael Paulson and trainer D. Wayne Lukas entered Azeri, the 2002 Horse of the Year, against powerful males in the Classic instead of fellow ...
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On one level, horse racing in Britain appears to be on a roll: it is a multi-million pound industry employing 100,000 people. More horses are competing for more prize money at more fixtures and watched by more punters than ever before.
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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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The unbeaten Indianapolis Colts rolled to their sixth consecutive win with a 29-7 road victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Monday.
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Sport: Horse racing: Kauto Star takes the plaudits with a stunning victory at Kempton
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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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Most thoroughbred championships are decided by the end of a typical Breeders&#39; Cup day, and Saturday&#39;s eight championship events at Lone Star Park probably succeeded in that mission.
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OCEANPORT, New Jersey  - The Breeders' Cup came to a thrilling but tragic end on Saturday.
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Authorities cancelled all horse races in four Australian states on Saturday after the country&#39;s first outbreak of equine influenza, which has set off fears of massive financial losses.
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You often see thoroughbred horses do it. Baseball teams have jumped out ahead in the standings and stayed there all the way through to a World Series victory.