Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - He was probably going to get in anyway. But Saturday, three-time Eclipse Award winner Gio Pon
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Acclamation to comeback in 2012
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Arcadia, CA (Sports Network) - Pacific Classic winner Acclamation is situated nicely at Santa Anita Park while recovering from a leg injury. The five-year- old came up with a problem in his right front leg.
"We're trying to cool it out," trainer Don Warren said about the leg. "It's a little
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Joshua Tree back to defend Canadian International
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Saturday's $1.5 million Canadian International at Woodbine Race Course offers a final chance for horses to gain automatic entry into next month's Breeders' Cup Turf. The stakes has attracted an international field of 16 grass runners.
The 1 1/2-mile turf race i
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Dutrow receives 10-year ban from New York Board
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Schenectady, NY (Sports Network) - Veteran trainer Rick Dutrow, Jr. has been banned from training thoroughbreds by the State of New York for at least 10 years. The decision was handed down Wednesday by the New York State Racing and Wagering Board.
Meeting at
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Winter Memories featured in Queen Elizabeth II
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Lexington, KY (Sports Network) - Winter Memories heads a field of eight three- year-old fillies for Saturday's 28th edition of the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at 1 1/8-miles on the turf at Keeneland. The $400,000 stakes has a scheduled post-time of 5:45 p.m.
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Blind Luck to be available for sale
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Lexington, KY (Sports Network) - Champion filly Blind Luck will be put in the sales ring next month. The four-year-old was voted the 2010 Eclipse Award as champion three-year-old filly.
Keeneland announced Tuesday that Blind Luck will be offered at the Novemb
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Havre de Grace at Keeneland with trainer
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Lexington, KY (Sports Network) - Havre de Grace, owned by Fox Hill Farm, went back to the track at Keeneland Tuesday morning with trainer Larry Jones in the saddle. Fox Hill's Rick Porter noted on the farm's website that the filly galloped "very good" on Keeneland's synthetic main track.
Jon
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Strub Series on Coil's schedule
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Arcadia, CA (Sports Network) - Three-year-old colt Coil, winner of this year's Haskell Invitational, will bypass the Breeders' Cup Classic and participate in the Strub Series at Santa Anita Park.
Trainer Bob Baffert feels Coil is not yet ready to face older thoroughbreds, despite a third-pla
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Future home of Uncle Mo determined
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Elmont, NY (Sports Network) - Although his racing career is not over, champion colt Uncle Mo's retirement plans have been finalized. The three-year-old will eventually enter stud service at Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Kentucky.
The colt's owner Mike Repole and Coolmore's Ashford Stud have agr
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Reorganization announced at Santa Anita Park
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Arcadia, CA (Sports Network) - Less than one week into its 2011 fall racing season, Santa Anita Park announced a reorganization of the management team. Racing got underway for the autumn campaign last Friday.
Owned by Stronach Entertainment, a subsidiary of The Stronach Group, company offici
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Keeneland introduces more betting technology
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Lexington, KY (Sports Network) - Historic Keeneland Racetrack is making available more on-track options for wagering. Beginning with Friday's opening program, horseplayers will be able to bet using their SmartPhones or tablets, such as iPads.
The FastBet tech
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Weekly Television Schedule
October 15
- Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup and Keeneland 75th Anniversary, 5:00-6:00PM, NBC
October 20
- April Love, 10:00AM-12:00PM, FMC
October 23
- The Black Stallion, 6:00-8:00PM, TCM
November 4
Weekly Stakes Race Schedule
October 14
- Keeneland: Buffalo Trace Franklin County S., $100,000, 3&up f&m, 5.5f T
- Penn National: Ligature S., $75,000, 3&up f&m, 6f
- Penn National: Nepal S., $75,000, 3&up, Pennsylvania bred, 6f
October 15
