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Remington Hosting Two Big Stakes Opening Day

The first two stakes for the 2009 Remington Park season drew outstanding nomination lists with plenty of star power and quality expected in the six-digit events.

 Friday, August 14, 2009

Erlton, Planet Earth, Touch Tone Sire First Winners

First-crop sires Erlton, Planet Earth, and Touch Tone were represented by their first winners May 12.

 Sunday, May 14, 2006

City Street to Bullard Farms in Texas

City Street, a track-record-setter and –equaler in his two starts as a 2-year-old, has been retired from racing and will enter stud at Bullard Farms near Weatherford, Texas

 Wednesday, November 27, 2002

Touch Tone to Stand in Texas

Touch Tone, a 4-year-old stakes winner and grade I stakes-placed son of Pick Up the Phone, has been retired and will stand in 2003 at Jim Helzer's JEH Stallion Station near Pilot Point, Texas. He will stand for $2,500.

 Friday, November 08, 2002

Werner Hopes to Knock Chip Off Shoulder

Sometimes, even horses that want to run long mature early. Such is the case with Tom Durant's Most Feared, who trainer Ronny Werner will send out Saturday in the Bessemer Trust Breeders' Cup Juvenile (gr. I).

 Friday, October 25, 2002

First Winner for Distorted Humor

First crop sire Distorted Humor was represented by his first winner as a sire when his first starter, Awesome Humor, went wire-to-wire to earn a neck-length win in a 4 1/2-furlong maiden race at Keeneland Thursday.

 Thursday, April 11, 2002

Lunar Bounty Best in Bashford Manor

Tom R. Durant's Lunar Bounty dueled with Binyamin and 4-5 favorite Storm Passage through the opening half-mile before pulling clear to a 2 1/2-length victory in the $133,750 Bashford Manor Stakes (gr. II) on Sunday at Churchill Downs.

 Sunday, July 08, 2001

Hennessy Colt Tops Day 1 at FT Texas

A colt by Hennessy attracted a record bid of $150,000 from Tom Durant to highlight the opening day of the Fasig-Tipton Texas Yearling Sale Monday at Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie near Dallas.

 Monday, August 28, 2000