Sports Briefing | Horse Racing: Setback for Rags to Riches
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The Belmont Stakes winner Rags to Riches missed another scheduled workout yesterday, this time because she did not âfeel quite rightâ on the track at Belmont Park, her exercise rider, Lauren Robson, said. The trainer Todd Pletcher said Rags to Riches, his star 3-year-old filly, was examined but âshe was fine.âThe scheduled five-furlong breeze was cut short by Robson. Rags to Riches missed a workout last week with an elevated temperature. She was then pulled out of consideration for Saturdayâs $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks, which was won by her stablemate Octave.
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As reported by the UK This is Money: "Gambling stocks took a spin on fears that the long-awaited reform to Britain's arcane gambling laws may not happen before the next General Election.
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NEW KENT, Va., July 21 -- When jockey Horacio Karamanos arrived at Colonial Downs on Saturday morning, he knew he had mounts in nine of the 10 races scheduled. The one race the leading rider at the track was left out of was the big one, the Grade II $1 million Virginia Derby, but that changed whe...
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When Afrashad was entered in yesterday's James B. Moseley Sprint Handicap at Suffolk Downs, his handlers weren't sure what to expect. It was just the 5-year-old thoroughbred's second race back since having a bone chip taken out of his knee last fall. On Aug. 13 at Saratoga, he ran fourth in his only outing before heading here.
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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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Ireland&#39;s only champion at the Athens Olympics and two German riders risk losing their gold medals after their horses failed dope tests.
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Thoroughbred race horses are riding high as purse money grows along with television audiences for the sport made even more popular by Hollywood movies such as &quot;Seabiscuit.
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THE future of horseracing in Britain was thrown into confusion this week as a result of a judgment by the European Court of Justice.
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The Melbourne Cup is known as &#39;the race that stops a nation&#39;, owing to its standing as Australia&#39;s most popular horse race.
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While horses continue to fall off an extremely bumpy road to the Breeders&#39; Cup World Thoroughbred Championships, Evening Attire keeps on trucking.
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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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Racetracks across Australia were all but shut down Saturday, the country's richest horse race is in doubt and losses could total more than a billion dollars after an outbreak of equine influenza.
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One yearâs winner can lose big in the next cycle.
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Competition usually means better odds for the gambler. Here's a case where the game got worse.
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Rags to Riches, left,ÃÂ outduels Preakness winner Curlin down the stretch Saturday to become the first filly to win the Belmont Stakes in more than a century and just the third in 139 runnings of the Belmont.
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ELMONT, New York  - Rags to Riches became the first filly to win the Belmont Stakes in 102 years when she won a thrilling stretch duel with Preakness champion Curlin on Saturday to triumph by a head.
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Coinciding with the first Breeders' Cup in 1984, the economics of the horse industry have spiraled to dizzying proportions, and the high end of the thoroughbred world now is largely defined by stud fees measured in hundreds of thousands of dollars, unraced yearling prospects who are auctioned for millions, and stallions who are prematurely retired from racing ...