Owners of a Breedersâ Cup Champion Must Decide if He Will Return
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Jess Jackson and his four partners must decide whether to retire Curlin, who  captured the $5 million Breedersâ Cup Classic, or race him next year as a 4-year-old.
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The &#36;4 million Breeders' Cup Classic is shaping up as a doozy of a race &#151; even without Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Smarty Jones.
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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 ...
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Smarty Jones has been retired to stud in Kentucky, but his presence is felt among the other top 3-year-old thoroughbreds still racing.
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Tour de France winner Floyd Landis should learn on Thursday whether he has any chance of competing in this year's race.
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The Ocala/Marion County area is widely known in thoroughbred racing circles as a top thoroughbred breeding and training center, but some of its farm owners apparently also like to race the horses produced here.
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The racing future of the dual Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva is likely to be overseas. She has already made history by becoming the first mare to win back to back cups and only the fourth horse in the race&#39;s
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PRAIRIE, Texas -- The Breeders&#39; Cup has been something of a mobile house of horrors for trainer Bobby Frankel, but that all changed in two minutes on Saturday.
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The 21st renewal of the Breeders&#39; Cup Championships will be run this afternoon at Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie, Texas. The $14 million, eight-race championship has
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After the cancellation of a walking-horse championship, concerns are  being raised about how those high-stepping horses are treated
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He is a mass of contradictions. In the jeweled circle of &quot;celebrity&quot; trainers of thoroughbred horses, he is the face at the edge of the crowd because that&#39;s as close as he wants to get to it.
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In 2002, owner Michael Paulson was desirous of running Azeri in the Breeders&#39; Cup Classic, but trainer Laura de Seroux talked him out of it.
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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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With raw, cold and nasty weather likely, the Breedersâ Cup Classic and seven other Breedersâ Cup races will be determined on uncertain footing.
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Azeri trainer D Wayne Lukas has no regrets about moving the filly to the Breeders&#39; Cup Classic even though the 2002 Horse of the Year came home fifth.
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In rationalizing the decision to enter Azeri in the $4-million Breedersâ Cup Classic (G1), trainer D. Wayne Lukas emphasized his past success in starting females against males.
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Now that the Breeders&#39; Cup Classic is over, there&#39;s one more big race left -- the one for horse of the year. It&#39;s Ghostzapper, winner of America&#39;s richest race in record time, against Smarty Jones, the retired Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner.