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Santa Anita To Offer 50 Cent Players Pick 5

ARCADIA, Calif. - Santa Anita Park has announced it will offer fans California's newest and most popular exotic wager, the 50-cent, Players' Pick Five, which features a fan-friendly low takeout of 14 percent when its 2011 Autumn Meet begins on Friday, Sept. 30. Santa Anita will also offer a $400,000 guaranteed late Pick Four on Breeders' Cup Challenge Day, Oct. 1.

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Santa Anita Autumn Meet Offers 13 Graded Stakes

ARCADIA, Calif. - Santa Anita's 2011 Autumn Meeting, which begins Sept. 30, will offer 13 graded stakes, including six Grade I events which will be run as part of Santa Anita's Breeders' Cup prep program that encompasses the first two weekends of the 24-day race meeting.

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Breeders' Cup Betting Prep Races

The Breeders' Cup prep race season is relatively short. It only lasts about 23 days, but what it lacks in long term focus it gains in high intensity. The concentration of high class talent will mirror in some ways the Breeders' Cup itself, given that we now have 15 Breeders' Cup races scheduled for Friday, Nov. 4 and Saturday Nov. 5 at historic Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Free Horse Racing Picks for Belmont Park Sept 24th, 2011

Every Saturday this Fall at Belmont Park, we're posting free handicapping picks for the entire day's races. The day will close with their first ever Guaranteed $300,000 Late Pick 4. Get a rebate on your wagers, win or lose, at OffTrackBetting.com.

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Belmont Stakes Winner Headlines $1M Pennsylvania Derby

Belmont Stakes winner Ruler On Ice is the 5-2 morning line favorite in horse betting odds for Saturday's $1 million Pennsylvania Derby. He leads a field of nine for the big race at Parx Racing which has an estimated post time of 5:45 p.m. Eastern on Saturday.

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2011 Breeders' Cup World Championships Countdown

HORSE OF THE YEAR RACE HEATS UP AS BREEDERS' CUP NEARS - With the 28th Breeders' Cup less than seven weeks away, the Horse of the Year title is as wide open as when the year started. With several important preps looming over the next month, including a pair of "Win and You're In" races for the Breeders' Cup Classic, a list of accomplished runners will be plotting their paths towards Churchill Downs November 4 and 5.

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WinStar Kentucky Cup Day of Champions at Turfway Park

FLORENCE, KY., - The 2011 WinStar Kentucky Cup Day of Champions at Turfway Park. The field for the feature race, the $200,000 WinStar Kentucky Cup (G2) is taking shape, although decisions regarding several nominees remain up in the air. Among those already likely to run is 7-year-old Strike Impact, third in the Firecracker Handicap (G2) on the turf at Churchill Downs two races back and second, beaten a neck, in the West Virginia Speakers Cup Handicap in his last start.

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Winter Memories Wins Garden City In Unforgettable Fashion

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trapped behind a wall of horses in midstretch, Winter Memories unleashed a breathtaking last-to-first run on the far outside through the final yards to nab Theyskens' Theory at the wire in Saturday's Grade 1, $250,000 Garden City at Belmont Park.

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Nominations in for WinStar Kentucky Cup Day of Champions

FLORENCE, Ky., - The five stakes races that comprise the WinStar Kentucky Cup Day of Champions series at Turfway Park closed Thursday with a combined 161 nominations. The five races are part of a 12-race card set for Sat., Sept. 24. All five are preps for the $25.5 million Breeders' Cup World Championships in November. Post time is 1:10 p.m., returning that Saturday to the traditional afternoon post.

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$1M Woodbine Mile at Woodbine Race Course

An automatic spot in the Breeders' Cup Mile is on the line this Sunday as 12 horses will look to win the $1 million Woodbine Mile at Woodbine Race Course in Toronto. Courageous Cat is the 3-1 morning line horse betting favorite in the field of 12.

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