Articles filed under Horse Racing
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Favored Big Brown draws No. 7 postMay 14, 2008 11:00 pm - BALTIMORE -- Running on the outside has been very good to Big Brown. Now the Kentucky Derby winner gets to try things from the middle. He was installed as the 1-2 early ...
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Pimlico awaits Big Brown's arrival for PreaknessMay 13, 2008 11:00 pm - BALTIMORE -- For the better part of a week, the only sounds around the stakes barn at Pimlico Race Course have been raindrops, a few birds chirping and the clomp-clomp-c...
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Don't hand Big Brown Preakness trophy quite yetMay 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Big Brown was so overpowering in winning the Kentucky Derby that none of the 19 rivals he dusted off is showing up for another try in the Preakness Stakes. This is not a...
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Winning debut for apprentice jockey MeierMay 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Apprentice rider Brandon Meier, 19, son of popular local jockey Randall Meier, made Sunday's professional debut a winning one when he guided Frank C. Calabrese's Housebo...
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Track tips for Saturday, May 10May 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Despite his dominating Kentucky Derby performance, as many as a dozen 3-year-olds intend on lining up against Big Brown in next Saturday's Grade I Preakness Stakes, the ...
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Jockey Club safety committee to review racing health issuesMay 08, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The Jockey Club has formed a committee to study equine health, including track safety and the rules of racing, five days after the death of the filly Eight B...
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Eight Belles' trainer defends jockeyMay 05, 2008 11:00 pm - LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The trainer of euthanized filly Eight Belles adamantly defended the way jockey Gabriel Saez handled the Kentucky Derby runner-up. In an interview with ...
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Big Brown generating Triple Crown buzzMay 04, 2008 11:00 pm - LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Big Brown gobbled up a few peppermints and did some leisurely laps around his barn Sunday while camera-snapping admirers gawked at the dominant winner...
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Desormeaux in elite class: 8th jockey to win 3 DerbysMay 03, 2008 11:00 pm - LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Kent Desormeaux was in such a slump that he had to do something, even if it meant moving his family from California to New York. On Saturday, Desormea...
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Valiant run ends in sadness for fillyMay 03, 2008 11:00 pm - LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Boy, did Eight Belles hang with the boys. All that heart and her gallant fight, however, ended in the worst of all possible ways: a breakdown, an ambu...