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Equine Fatal Injury Rate is Steady in 2012

Equine Fatal Injury Rate is Steady in 2012

According to a March 8 Jockey Club release based on information collected in the Equine Injury Database, fatal breakdowns in North American Thoroughbred races stayed about the same in 2012 at just under two per 1,000 starts.

 Friday, March 08, 2013
Countdown to the Cup: Friday Longshots

Countdown to the Cup: Friday Longshots

Steve gives you his longshots for the Breeders' Cup races on Friday.

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 Thursday, November 01, 2012
O'Brien's Starters Lead Euro Exercise Nov. 1

O'Brien's Starters Lead Euro Exercise Nov. 1

Having cleared quarantine, Aidan O'Brien's powerful string of Breeders' Cup contenders took to the oval with the other Europeans at Santa Anita Park for the first time to stretch their legs the morning of Nov. 1.

 Thursday, November 01, 2012
THS: Breeders' Cup

THS: Breeders' Cup

Tom LaMarra and Claire Novak handicap a few choice races from the Breeders' Cup providing insight from past performances and on site impressions. The Classic will be covered in tomorrow's show.

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 Thursday, November 01, 2012
BC Mile or Turf for Little Mike?

BC Mile or Turf for Little Mike?

Trainer Dale Romans contemplates starting Little Mike in the Breeders' Cup Turf instead of the Mile.

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 Sunday, October 28, 2012
Talkin' Horses: Haskin Breeders' Cup Insights

Talkin' Horses: Haskin Breeders' Cup Insights

Steve Haskin, Senior Correspondent for The Blood-Horse, was the guest on Talkin' Horses with The Blood-Horse live podcast 2 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 23. Haskin discussed his insight and thoughts on this year's Breeders' Cup.

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 Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Breeders' Cup Interview: Wayne Catalano

Breeders' Cup Interview: Wayne Catalano

Lenny Shulman asks trainer Wayne Catalano about Stephanie's Kitten and Coalport, who are both by Kitten's Joy. Sponsored by Taylor Made Stallions

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 Monday, October 31, 2011
Racing Bloggers Take Collective Approach

Racing Bloggers Take Collective Approach

A group of horse racing bloggers has launched "TURF," a home page of sorts for their work. Many of the members have had industry-related blogs for several years.

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 Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Hangin' With Haskin: Time to Change BC Friday

Hangin' With Haskin: Time to Change BC Friday

The Breeders' Cup Filly Friday concept had its flaws from the beginning. The Breeders' Cup has always prided itself as the self-anointed World Thoroughbred Championships...

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 Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Special Report: 2011 Triple Crown Review

Special Report: 2011 Triple Crown Review

A FREE Download highlighted by runners coming off synthetic, turf starts.

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 Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Derby Threat: Soldat

Derby Threat: Soldat

A winner on turf, dirt, and slop, Fountain of Youth (gr. II) winner Soldat has versatility on his side.

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 Monday, February 28, 2011
Workforce Heavy Choice in BC Turf

Workforce Heavy Choice in BC Turf

Khalid Abdullah's Workforce, the Arc (Fr-I) and Epsom Derby (Eng-I) winner, was made the 7-5 morning line favorite for the Emirates Airline Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT).

 Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Countdown to the Cup: Fields Taking Shape

Countdown to the Cup: Fields Taking Shape

It's time to look at the prospective Breeders' Cup fields for Saturday, Nov. 6

 Monday, October 18, 2010
Laureate Conductor Heads Kent Field

Laureate Conductor Heads Kent Field

Castleton Lyons' Laureate Conductor is the 3-2 morning line favorite for the 1 1/8-mile Kent Stakes (gr. IIIT) Sept. 5 at Delaware Park.

 Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Pan American Reinstated as Grade III

Pan American Reinstated as Grade III

In accord with American Graded Stakes Committee policy, the March 21 renewal of the Pan American Stakes (gr. IIIT), scheduled for the Gulfstream Park turf course, but switched to the main track, was automatically downgraded from a grade III to ungraded status and was conducted as an ungraded stakes race.

 Thursday, March 26, 2009
A.P. Magic Recovers from Injury

A.P. Magic Recovers from Injury

A.P. Magic, a $2.3 million graduate of the Keeneland September yearling sale, came back from an injury thought to be career-ending when he broke his maiden at Calder Race Course May 3.

 Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Brass Hat Faces Full Elkhorn Field

Brass Hat Faces Full Elkhorn Field

Fred Bradley's homebred Brass Hat will make the 24th start of his career in the $200,000 Fifth Third Elkhorn Stakes (gr. IIT) at Keeneland April 25, but he'll be up against a field of established turf contenders like morning line favorite Stream of Gold, second choice True Cause, Drilling for Oil, Dancing Forever, and Transduction Gold.

 Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Run Sully Run in Palm Beach Rematch

They finished one-two in a Feb. 20 allowance race, separated by just a neck, and on March 29, Run Sully Run and Sporting Art will have a rematch in the $150,000 Bulleit Bourbon Palm Beach Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Gulfstream Park.

 Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Daytona Heads Mervyn Muniz Memorial 'Cap

Daytona Heads Mervyn Muniz Memorial 'Cap

Dan Hendricks saddled Daytona to four consecutive stakes victories in the past five months, his most recent being the Feb. 9 Fair Grounds Handicap (gr. IIIT). In the March 8 Mervyn Muniz Jr. Memorial Handicap (gr. IIT) at Fair Grounds, the trainer looks to extend that streak and add another graded win to his runner's resume.

 Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Einstein Heads Gulfstream Park Turf

Einstein Heads Gulfstream Park Turf

Midnight Cry Stables' Einstein won the 2006 edition of the Gulfstream Park Turf (gr. IT) and was a close-up third to Jambalaya last year. In this year's $350,000 edition, the son of Spend a Buck returns to the grass after a sixth-place finish over dirt and faces the likes of Dave, Shamdinan, and Zann.

 Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Dreaming of Anna Heads Endeavour

Dreaming of Anna Heads Endeavour

2006 Eclipse Award Champion Dreaming of Anna will make her 4-year-old debut Feb. 16, when a field of 11 older fillies and mares takes to the turf in the $150,000 Endeavour Breeders' Cup Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Tampa Bay Downs.

 Thursday, February 14, 2008
San Marcos Field Talented, Matched

San Marcos Field Talented, Matched

The eight horses entered in the Jan. 19 San Marcos Stakes (gr. IIT) at Santa Anita are not lacking talent, but which runner will show the best turn of foot in the 1 1/4-mile turf event remains to be seen.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2008

San Marcos Field Talented, Matched

The eight horses entered in the Jan. 19 San Marcos Stakes (gr. IIT) at Santa Anita Jan. are not lacking talent, but which runner will show the best turn of foot in the 1 ¼-mile turf event remains to be seen.

 Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Einstein Sharp in Gulfstream Return

Einstein Sharp in Gulfstream Return

Midnight Cry Stable's 6-year-old Einstein made an emphatic comeback from eight months on the sidelines Jan. 11 at Gulfstream Park with a one-length victory going a mile on turf in a classy $59,500 allowance race.

 Saturday, January 12, 2008
Einstein Returns in GP Allowance

Einstein Returns in GP Allowance

Midnight Cry Stable's Einstein could not defy the laws of gravity in his last start, when he went down in a frightening spill in the Dixie Stakes (gr. II) at Pimlico on Preakness (gr. I) day, May 19. A mild injury from that spill cut short the 6-year-old's 2007 campaign, but he'll be back in a one-mile turf allowance feature at Gulfstream Park Jan. 11.

 Wednesday, January 09, 2008
'Quiet' May Steal Stage Door Betty

'Quiet' May Steal Stage Door Betty

Making her first attempt over dirt after 19 career starts on the turf, the Todd Pletcher-trained Quiet Royal gets a light impost and looks to steal the Dec. 29 Stage Door Betty Handicap (gr. III) at Calder Race Course.

 Wednesday, December 26, 2007
English Channel Breaks Through in Turf

English Channel Breaks Through in Turf

English Channel pulled away from a tight pack coming out of the final turn and exploded through the stretch to win his first $3 million John Deere Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT) in three tries, beating a field that included European star Dylan Thomas.

 Saturday, October 27, 2007
Video:  Interview with Tom Proctor

Video: Interview with Tom Proctor

Trainer Tom Proctor, who is part of Breeders' Cup history with his victory with One Dreamer, returns with Purim, who has been pre-entered in two races. Proctor decided to send Purim on to the Breeders' Cup following a victory in the Shadwell Turf Mile at Keeneland.

 Monday, October 22, 2007
Breeders' Cup Focus: Grand Couturier (Turf)

Breeders' Cup Focus: Grand Couturier (Turf)

In his last victory, the Aug. 11 Sword Dancer (gr. IT) at Saratoga, Grand Couturier hardly got the respect he deserved. That may change Oct. 27 in the John Deere Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT).

 Friday, October 19, 2007
Breeders' Cup Starters Arrive; Shore Do Breezes at Monmouth

Breeders' Cup Starters Arrive; Shore Do Breezes at Monmouth

Harry Aleo's Smokey Stover and Charles Laloggia's Clearly Foxy both shipped into Monmouth Park Oct. 18, and trainer Chuck Peery sent 2-year-old Shore Do out for a five-furlong breeze this morning.

 Friday, October 19, 2007
Breeders' Cup Race Order, Post Times Announced

Breeders' Cup Race Order, Post Times Announced

The Breeders' Cup World Championships programs will include 10 races Oct. 26 and 11 races Oct. 27 at Monmouth Park, it was announced Oct. 16.

 Tuesday, October 16, 2007
No Cup for Shakespeare; Retires With Tendon Injury

No Cup for Shakespeare; Retires With Tendon Injury

Woodbine Mile (Can-IT) winner Shakespeare, who won seven of eight career starts for Frank Justice's Dell Ridge Farm, has been retired from racing after suffering a flare-up of the old tendon injury that once kept him from racing for 21 months.

 Friday, October 12, 2007

'Anna Back to Turf in Double Delta

Eclipse Award winner Dreaming of Anna, who sealed her division honors last season with a victory in the Nov. 4 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (gr. I), returns to the turf at her hometown race course in Saturday's Double Delta Stakes at Arlington Park.

 Friday, June 01, 2007

Europe's Ouija Board Notches Second Win in Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf

Favored Ouija Board rolled to her second victory in the Emirates Ariline Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf (gr. IT), adding a 2 1/4-length triumph Saturday at Churchill Downs to her victory at Lone Star Park in 2004.

 Saturday, November 04, 2006

O'Brien Discusses Coolmore BC Contingent

Once again, trainer Aidan O'Brien has brought a strong contingent of horses from across the pond to compete in the Breeders' Cup World Championships at Churchill Downs Nov. 4. As always, the European invaders are most feared in the turf events, and O'Brien will saddle Aussie Rules and Ad Valorem in the NetJets Breeders' Cup Mile (gr. IT)and Scorpion in the John Deere Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT).

 Thursday, November 02, 2006

Turf Preview: Home Team

When you consider that European horses have won 12 (including High Chaparral's 2003 dead heat) of 22 runnings of the Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT), this year's contingent seems somewhat sketchy.

 Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Turf Star Leroidesanimaux Retired to Stonewall

Leroidesanimaux, who won eight consecutive races before finishing a game second in the NetJets Breeders' Cup Mile (gr. IT) last month, has been retired to stud at Stonewall Farm near Versailles, Ky.

 Friday, November 11, 2005

Belmont Turf Yielding, Track Super Says

If races were being run on the turf at Belmont Park today, track superintendent John Passero said the courses would be listed as yielding.

 Friday, October 28, 2005

Record Rain in New York, Track Super Confident for BC Day

There was quite a thunderstorm on Long Island Saturday night. The site of the Oct. 29 Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships was hit with loud thunder and bolts of lightning accompanied by an inch of rain.

 Sunday, October 23, 2005

Turf Recap: Tough Talk

They got down and dirty in the John Deere Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT), turning the Sport of Kings into a rip-roaring, Texas-style rodeo. With front-running Star Over the Bay starting to fade, Powerscourt charged to the front on the final turn. Then Better Talk Now attacked from the outside, cutting in front of Magistretti. Meanwhile, the 7-10 favorite, Kitten's Joy, frantically swung his head to the left and right, looking for running room as the field headed to the wire.

 Tuesday, November 02, 2004

Turf Stars Get First Look at Grass Course

The first Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships contenders to test the Lone Star Park turf course worked Saturday morning, with slow times the norm of the day.

 Saturday, October 23, 2004

Lydgate Wins Turf Sprint With Late Rush

Lydgate closed with a huge rush to win the Ageon Turf Sprint (gr. IIIT) at Churchill Downs Friday on the Kentucky Oaks undercard.

 Friday, April 30, 2004

2003 Eclipse Grass Male of the Year: High Chaparral

High Chaparral (IRE) is an outstanding example of trainer Aidan O'Brien's ability to put the right horse in the right place. The son of Sadler's Wells made only 13 starts in his three years at the track. He won 10 of those starts, including six group or grade I races, and never finished worse than third. In 2003, High Chaparral raced only four times -- two of those outings resulted in grade or group I victories.

 Monday, January 26, 2004

2003 Eclipse Grass Female of the Year: Islington

After dominating the 3-year-old female division in Europe in 2002, and challenging the best that continent had to offer in 2003 -- both male and female -- Islington (IRE) shipped to the United States for a return engagement in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (gr. IT) where she registered a neck victory over fellow Irish-bred L'Ancresse. That one win, along with topping the final poll of the Filly & Mare Turf World Thoroughbred Rankings at 120 pounds, was enough to secure the daughter of Sadler's Wells an Eclipse Award as the top turf female of 2003.

 Monday, January 26, 2004

Dickinson Readying Course for BC Turf Races

Mowing. Spiking. Watering. Tamping. And don't forget worrying. Leif Dickinson, turf course superintendent at Santa Anita, has been doing all of those things to ready the grass for the Oct. 25 Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships.

 Thursday, October 23, 2003

TURF PREVIEW 2003: Home Field Advantage

North American success in Breeders' Cup events staged in southern California keep many European contenders home this year.

 Friday, October 17, 2003

Empire Maker Favored in BC Future Pool

Belmont Stakes (gr. I) winner Empire Maker was made the 7-2 favorite for the Breeders' Cup Classic, Powered by Dodge (gr. I) in future book wagering conducted this weekend.

 Monday, July 28, 2003

Turf Preview (9/25): Still No Changes

The John Deere Breeders' Cup Turf (gr-IT) World Thoroughbred Rankings remained unchanged for a second week in a row when the results of the Kentucky Cup Turf Handicap (gr-IT) and Belmont Park's Jamaica Handicap (gr-IIT) failed to impress the panel of international handicappers.

 Wednesday, September 25, 2002

Turf Preview (9/25): Still No Changes

The John Deere Breeders' Cup Turf (gr-IT) World Thoroughbred Rankings remained unchanged for a second week in a row when the results of the Kentucky Cup Turf Handicap (gr-IT) and Belmont Park's Jamaica Handicap (gr-IIT) failed to impress the panel of international handicappers.

 Wednesday, September 25, 2002

Stylish Takes Citgo Distaff Turf Mile

Jerry Bailey won his second consecutive stakes on the Kentucky Derby Day card, winning the Citgo Distaff Turf Mile (gr. IIIT) aboard Stylish. In the previous race, he won the Three Chimneys Juvenile aboard Holiday Runner.

 Saturday, May 04, 2002
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