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Silver Train Takes Outer Track to Tom Fool Win

Odds-on choice Silver Train outfought War Front by a neck in a gritty stretch duel to capture the $150,000 Tom Fool Handicap (gr. II) over seven furlongs at Belmont Park Sunday.

 Sunday, July 16, 2006

Silver Train Set to Rumble in Tom Fool 'Cap

Sunday's $150,000 Tom Fool Handicap (gr. II) at seven furlongs at Belmont Park is the last chance for Silver Train to run over his favorite track until the fall so trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. is taking this start as seriously as any grade I race.

 Friday, July 14, 2006

Big Apple Daddy Takes Charge in LeVine 'Cap

Ervin Rodriguez's odds-on favorite Big Apple Daddy made a decisive rally from well off the pace to run down the ultra-quick P. Kerney outside the sixteenth pole en route to a 2 ½ length victory in Saturday's $100,000 Donald LeVine Memorial Handicap over seven furlongs at Philadelphia Park.

 Saturday, May 27, 2006

Bishop Court Hill Leads All the Way to Win Carter

Bishop Court Hill led all the way and held off Sir Greeley for a neck victory in the 106th running of the grade I, $300,000 Carter Handicap before 6,636 rain-soaked fans at Aqueduct Saturday.

 Saturday, April 08, 2006

BC Sprint Winner Silver Train Tops Carter Handicap

Silver Train, the surprise winner of last year's TVG Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I), heads a field of eight in Saturday's Carter Handicap (gr. I) at Aqueduct in pursuit of his first win of the year.

 Thursday, April 06, 2006

Trainer Picou Retires After 45 Years

Trainer Jimmy Picou, who arrived on the racetrack an aspiring jockey in the late 1940s, called it a career Sunday.

 Sunday, December 12, 2004

Caribbean Cruiser Romps in NY Breeders' Futurity

Trainer Donna Bireta and jockey Chin Yang scored a repeat victory for Star Track Farms in the $217,359 New York Breeders' Futurity when Caribbean Cruiser rolled to a 5 3/4-length win Monday at Finger Lakes.

 Monday, September 06, 2004