Lukas gambles on another Breeders&#39; Cup victory with Azeri
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The king of Breeders&#39; Cup trainers is pursuing his record 18th victory on horse racing&#39;s biggest stage in a surprising way.
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However else he leans in the upcoming election, we already can be sure of one thing about D. Wayne Lukas. He must be. He has taken his classic lady, Azeri, one of the
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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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In one of the biggest upsets â-nd most controversial finishes â -the year, a 27-1 betting orphan named Better Talk Now won the $2 million Breeders&#39; Cup Turf
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Trainer Richard "Dickie" Small is on a Squan Song roll, winning the $45,000 stakes race for Maryland-bred fillies and mares for the third time in four years, this time with For Kisses.
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LOS ANGELES &quot;Azeri&quot; has been retired from racing ending the career of one of the top females in thoroughbred racing history.
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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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Azeri, who was Horse of the Year in 2002 and one of top females in thoroughbred racing history, was retired from competition and will be sent to Kentucky to be bred.
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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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The eight expected starters in the Breedersâ Cup Classic include the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes winners, a European champion, and the Kentucky Derby runner-up.
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If you're in search of a heavily favored standout for Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic, forget it. The richest horse race on the continent drew a highly intriguing and very bettable cast of nine, with the only certainty being that the 1 1/4-mile season-culminating championship at Monmouth Park presents an extremely difficult workload for those seeking its $5 ...
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Ghostzapper with jockey Javier Castellano crosses the finish line to with the Breeders&#39; Cup Classic in Grand Prairie, Texas, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2004.
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D Wayne Lukas, the most successful trainer of all time at the Breeders&#39; Cup, caused a sensation today when he revealed 2002 Distaff winner and Horse of the Year Azeri will tackle Saturday&#39;s Breeders&#39; Cup Classic.
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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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Trainer Bruce Levine admitted to having a couple of worries yesterday going into the Grade II $300,000 General George Breeders' Cup Handicap: His lightly raced but blazingly fast chestnut colt Bustin Stones likely would face pace pressure from horses starting to his outside, and the sprints earli...
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Azeri will try to beat the boys again, this time in the $4 million Breeders&#39; Cup Classic. Trainer D. Wayne Lukas made the surprise announcement Tuesday, declaring 2002 Horse of the Year Azeri &quot;all in&quot; for the 1\\-mile Classic on Saturday.