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Amazing Amazombie is Sprint Champ

Amazing Amazombie is Sprint Champ

Winning the Breeders' Cup Sprint had been the flourishing finish to a splendid nine-race championship season for Amazombie that ran from late January to Nov. 5. Now he has been voted male sprint champion.

 Monday, January 16, 2012

Eclipse Award: Lost in the Fog, Sprinter

The good news is, after a two-month vacation in Florida, Lost in the Fog reported back to work at Gilchrist's barn in early January to begin training for a 2006 campaign, the main target of which will be another crack at the Sprint, to be run this year at Churchill Downs. Gilchrist indicated he will likely map out a less-rigorous campaign for his star this time around, with early plans calling for an April debut in California.

 Monday, January 23, 2006

Champion Dr. Patches Dead at 28

The chestnut son of Dr. Fager was the last horse on the Tartan Farms property in Ocala, Fla.

 Wednesday, July 31, 2002

Squirtle Squirt Sprints to Eclipse Award

The racetrack is the great equalizer. Breeders' Cup Day 2001 hammered home that point. On racing's biggest day, not only did some of the game's heaviest hitters--like Sheikh Mohammed, Juddmonte Farms, and members of the Coolmore group--win races, but so, too, did David Lanzman.

 Monday, February 18, 2002

Champion Star de Naskra Euthanized

Star de Naskra, champion sprinter in 1979 and the sire of 43 stakes winners, was euthanized Sunday at Darby Dan Farm near Lexington due to the infirmities of old age. The 25-year-old was pensioned in March of this year.

 Tuesday, October 03, 2000