A Trainer Takes It Slow and Saddles Fast Horses
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Shug McGaughey has won the Midsummer Derby three times. He waited nine years to saddle another one, and now his horse must run down this yearâs Kentucky Derby winner.
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One spring Saturday morning in Great Falls, occupational therapist Colleen Zanin prepares for a day of treating clients. Instead of assembling floor mats and exercise balls, however, she is checking the halter of a tall gray horse named Traveler.
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In a scripted, made-for-television world, the story line for the 139th Belmont Stakes tomorrow afternoon would go like this: Trainer Todd Pletcher, riding an increasingly uncomfortable 0-for-28 streak in Triple Crown races, finally breaks through on his home turf and does it with historic and unexpected tact.
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The 10th running of the Virginia Derby on Saturday at Colonial Downs has become the primary target of any trainer with a top-quality 3-year-old turf horse.
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THROUGH all the drama and diversions of the week before the King George VI Chase, only one trainer was resolutely confident in his horse.
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Trainer Dale Romans said the enormity of having the favorite in Saturday&#39;s $2million Breeders&#39; Cup Turf and another live shot in the $4million
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Barbaro had another good night in the intensive care unit, and the Kentucky Derby winner&#039;s assistant trainer said Sunday the colt &quot;is in a good frame of mind.&quot;
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Darren Sharper knows he's a step slow but that's not going to stop him from playing hurt.
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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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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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There's an adage around the racetrack that goes like this: When betting a major stakes race, always pick the shipper who arrives on the grounds first. That tip is based on the premise that the trainer has devoted full attention to acclimating the invader to unfamiliar circumstances, and it does have a ring of truth to it.
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He is the old man of the Breeders' Cup, ancient as far as world-class thoroughbreds are concerned, and Better Talk Now is far from easing gracefully into the twilight of his career at age 8.
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Because they are consummately-bred and run long distances on grass, European horses are right at home even in America when they race on the Breeders&#39; Cup Turf.
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It was typical of D Wayne Lukas that he chose to reveal an unexpected change of plan for Azeri, in American eyes the &quot;marquee&quot; horse of the Breeders&#39; Cup meeting, at the moment of maximum effect.
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Jim Thirds Bolero, a 6-year-old gelding with suspensory problems, holds off a desperate charge by Little Matth Man to win the $50,000 Native Dancer Stakes.
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Play the horses? Use that to beat the bulls and the bears.
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The superstar springs a surprise.