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Lexington Stakes proves winning cause for Pletcher
Derby :: United Kingdom | 1 month ago
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The Sports Network Trainer Todd Pletcher already has five horses targeted for the Kentucky Derby, with two of them the probable top duo in the field. Saturday at Keeneland he posted another stakes win with yet another 3-year-old. Pletcher saw his
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Motion going after third straight Spiral
Cincinnati :: OH :: USA | 3 months ago
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The Sports Network Trainer Graham Motion has saddled the last two winners of the Spiral Stakes at Turfway Park and has nominated four to this year's 42nd edition. Motion, who won the 1 1/8-mile stakes with Animal Kingdom (2011) and Went the Day Well (
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Up the Backstretch: Sophomores gather for Travers
Saratoga :: CA :: USA | 9 months ago
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This week alone, Kentucky Derby and Preakness runner-up Bodemeister has been retired and 2011 champion 2-year- old Hansen is on the verge of retirement. However, races must still be run and Saturday the 143rd Travers for 3-year-olds will be conducted
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A very wise trip for jockey Velazquez
Saratoga Springs :: NY :: USA | 9 months ago
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It took all of the Hall of Fame jockey's brains and guile to guide Wise Dan to the finish line first in Saturday's Fourstardave Handicap. At the start, Wise Dan almost beat the starting gate, lunging forward as it opened. Instead of letting his horse
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Bodemeister's speed sexier to U.S. breeders
Saratoga :: CA :: USA | 10 months ago
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A lot has been written about the direction of the U.S. breeding industry with regard to speed being far preferable to stamina in a future stallion. I thought the recent deals involving I'll Have Another and Bodemeister painted an interesting example
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Comair crash victim's Triple Crown dream lives on with his family — and a very special horse
Versailles :: KY :: USA | 12 months ago
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Like most Thoroughbred horse breeders, George Brunacini always dreamed of winning the Kentucky Derby. When Brunacini was killed on Aug. 27, 2006, in the crash of Comair Flight 5191 in Lexington, friends consoled his son, Angelo: "If only he had had
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Flower Alley whim pays off for Melnyk
Bridgetown :: Barbados | 12 months ago
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Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk admits he's a little superstitious, and plays hunches. He's discovering that's a good thing, because it led him to help create Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another. Melnyk owned and raced Flower Alley, the
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Where bluegrass becomes garlands
Versailles :: KY :: USA | 1 year ago
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On a sun-drenched Sunday at Three Chimneys Farm, the star stallions Big Brown and Point Given are eclipsed by a sleepy one tucked in the back barn. His name is Flower Alley, and his son, I'll Have Another, just won America's most celebrated horse
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Tom Eblen: In one week, Three Chimneys Farm felt agony, ecstasy of horse business
Midway :: UT :: USA | 1 year ago
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Robert Clay, the owner of Three Chimneys Farm, said Dynaformer would become so irritated when one of his stablemates was shown to visitors that he would kick the steel bars on his stall door, bending several of them. Florists' trucks have been
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Legendary stallion Dynaformer euthanized at Three Chimneys
Sydney :: Australia | 1 year ago
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Dynaformer stood for stud at $150,000 this year but was pensioned April 17 after suffering an aortic valve rupture in his stall. "Dynaformer impacted the industry in a way that few ever have or will," Three Chimneys President Case Clay said. "More
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