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02/07/2014

2014 CHURCHILL DOWNS SPRING STAKES SCHEDULE

Total purses for the 2014 Spring Meet stakes events reflect an increase of 2.7 percent from 2013. The spring stakes schedule continues Churchill Downs’ emphasis on big days highlighted by multiple stakes races and the Kentucky Derby Day card on Saturday

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02/06/2014

Top drivers ready to open Miami Valley Raceway (

The new five-eighths-mile harness racing track, located between Dayton and Cincinnati, opens Friday night with an 11-race card. Post time is 6:30 p.m. for the first race. Palone, who is based at The Meadows in western Pennsylvania, has won more races than

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02/05/2014

GRADE II SAN ANTONIO STAKES

A well-beaten ninth as the 8-5 favorite in the Grade I Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita Nov. 2, Game On Dude got a measure of redemption in running a gut-wrenching second to eventual 3-year-old Eclipse Award Champion Will Take Charge in the Grade I

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02/05/2014

GRADE II ROBERT B. LEWIS

An impressive first-out maiden winner at Hollywood Park going 7 ½ furlongs Dec. 13, Midnight Hawk stretched out to win the one mile Sham by 1 ¾ lengths Jan. 11, thus stamping himself as a candidate for both the Santa Anita and Kentucky Derbies. With 10

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02/05/2014

Caroline Thomas gets started in Saturday’s $150,000 Suwannee River

A nine-furlong turf test for older females in its 66th year, the Suwannee River will be the first start for Caroline Thomas since she closed to be third, beaten less than a length, in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) at Keeneland on Oct. 12. “S

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02/05/2014

Singanothersong Looms Dangerous in Saturday’s Gulfstream Park Sprint

Singanothersong pressed fast early paces before drawing off with authority in an allowance on Nov. 17 and the $100,000 Mr. Prospector Stakes (G3) on Dec. 28. “I was assistant trainer for John Tammaro for quite a while and John used to tell me, “If you

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02/05/2014

Gulfstream Park News & Notes - Wed 2/5

The bay son of Tapit returned to the work tab for the first time since his victory with a five-furlong breeze in 1:04 at Payson Park for trainer Christophe Clement. “It was a nice, easy maintenance work,” Clement said. “There are two or three option

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02/04/2014

Oaklawn Notes:

Willis Horton’s Will Take Charge, winner of Oaklawn’s Smarty Jones and Rebel Stakes last year, is schedule to leave Monday for South Florida where he will make his seasonal debut as the 123 highweight in the Grade 1 Donn Handicap at Gulfstream Park Fe

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02/04/2014

Dearly Precious next stop on Gracer’s tour

Already a stakes winner at Laurel Park and Penn National, and stakes-placed at Belmont Park in the Grade 2 Matron, the daughter of Exchange Rate has shown incredible adaptability in her nascent career, hitting the board in all five of her starts at five d

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02/04/2014

Groupie Doll Preps for Career Finale at Gulfstream in Hurricane Bertie

She spotted the name, Groupie Doll, in the entries and liked Funny Sunny’s chances a little bit better. ”I had noticed her before and I remember saying, ‘This one doesn’t have any pedigree. We can beat her,’” recalled Pope Sunday morning on th

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