There were three Kentucky Derby preps run on February 2nd at three different racetracks, one at Tam
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Alabama Stakes winner Questing retired
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Lexington, KY (Sports Network) - Champion filly Questing has been retired and will be bred in the spring. Owner Godolphin Racing made the announcement Friday morning.
The 4-year-old filly won the Eclipse Award as champion 3-year-old filly of 2012. Trained by Kiaran McLaughlin, Questing won t
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Breeders' Cup race runners-up meet in Gulfstream Turf
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Hallandale Beach, FL (Sports Network) - A pair of second-place runners from last year's Breeders' Cup World Championships will meet for the first time in Saturday's $300,000 Kitten's Joy Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap.
Animal Kingdom, second in the Breeders' Cup Mile, and Breeders' Cup Turf r
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Hawthorne ready for 2013 opening
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Stickney, IL (Sports Network) - The 2013 spring race meet at Hawthorne Race Course begins Friday, Feb. 15. The meeting extends until Sunday, April 28.
The highlight will be the 56th running of the Illinois Derby on Saturday, April 20. The 1 1/8-mile stakes for 3-year-olds is getting a big bo
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Flat Out returns in Donn Handicap
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Hallandale Beach, FL (Sports Network) - Veteran runner Flat Out leads a solid field of 10 older thoroughbreds for Saturday's 57th edition of the Donn Handicap at Gulfstream Park. The $500,000 stakes at 1 1/8-miles has a post- time of 5:32 p.m. (ET).
Trained by Bill Mott, Flat Out will again
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Up the Backstretch: A not so long goodbye for Animal Kingdom
By: By Don Agriss, Horse Racing Editor
(Sports Network) - The hours are being counted and the days are being crossed off the calender as the countdown is underway toward the final races in the career of Animal Kingdom.
The 2011 Kentucky Derby winner begins his final series of races with Saturday's $300,000 Kitten's Joy Gulfstream
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Horse owner Parcells enters NFL Hall of Fame
By: By Michael Fenrich, Contributing Editor
Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - The first weekend in February had a lot of events. Groundhog Day was Saturday, and Punxsutawney Phil didn't see his shadow, so it should be an early spring.
In New Orleans, it was also Super Bowl Weekend. On Super Bowl eve, the NFL announced the new Pro Fo
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Animal Kingdom returns in Gulfstream Turf
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Hallandale Beach, FL (Sports Network) - Former Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom heads a field of six for Saturday's $300,000 Kitten's Joy Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap. The 5-year-old is using the stakes as his 2013 debut event.
Trained by Graham Motion and owned by Team Valor, Animal Ki
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Donn Handicap features 10 older runners
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Hallandale Beach, FL (Sports Network) - A solid field of 10 older thoroughbreds will compete in Saturday's 57th Donn Handicap at Gulfstream Park. The 1 1/8-mile $500,000 stakes has a post-time of 5:32 p.m. (ET).
Starting from post 2 will be Flat Out, the winner of the last two editions of th
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Mutuel field favored in first Derby Future Wager
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Louisville, KY (Sports Network) - The first Kentucky Derby Future Wager of 2013 gets underway Friday at noon, with 24 betting interests available for interested bettors. The morning line favorite is the mutuel field of "All Others" -- 3-year-old horses not listed individually.
The Future Wag
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Falling Sky likely for Tampa Bay Derby
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Oldsmar, FL (Sports Network) - A firm decision has yet to be made, but Sam F. Davis Stakes winner Falling Sky is a strong candidate for the $350,000 Tampa Bay Stakes on March 9.
Trained by John Terranova II, Falling Sky defeated Pasco Stakes winner and 17-10 favorite Dynamic Sky by a neck af
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Normandy Invasion gearing up for Risen Star Stakes
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Hallandale Beach, FL (Sports Network) - Highly regarded 3-year-old colt Normandy Invasion is quickly approaching his 2013 debut race. The Fox Hill Farms colt will start in the Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds Race Course on Feb. 23.
Trained by Chad Brown, Normandy Invasion had a five-furlon
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Dominguez begins Rehabilitation Program
New York, NY (Sports Network) - Eclipse Award winning jockey Ramon Dominguez has been moved from a unit within New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center to a rehabilitation hospital in suburban New York.
Sharon Dominguez, the jockey's wife, said her hu
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Verrazano - The No. 1 Kentucky Derby contender
By: By Jeff Frank, The Sports Analyst
Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Stakes winners usually get more publicity than allowance and maiden winners, and that was certainly the case over the weekend with the stellar victories by Flashback and Revolutionary.
However, the No. 1 star was not the Robert B. Lewis champion (Flashback
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Flashback gives Baffert the Lewis Stakes
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Arcadia, CA (Sports Network) - Flashback making just his second career start ran away from three rivals to capture Saturday's $200,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita Park. The colt gave Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert his fourth victory in the stakes.
Flashback was the 1-2 favorite i
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Revolutionary surges to win Withers
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Ozone Park, NY (Sports Network) - Odds-on favorite Revolutionary put on a furious surge in late stretch to win Saturday's $200,000 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct. The 1 1/6-mile stakes is a prep for Aqueduct's $1 million Wood Memorial on April 6,
Revolutionary, ridden by Javier Castellano, was s
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Honorable Dillon grabs Hutcheson Stakes
By: SPORTS NETWORK
Hallandale Beach, FL (Sports Network) - Honorable Dillon, ridden by Joe Rocco Jr., held off a late running Forty Tales to win Saturday's $150,000 Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream Park. The time for the seven-furlong Hutcheson was 1:22.53 on a fast track.
Eight 3-year-olds went to post after th
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Weekly Television Schedule
June 8
- Belmont Stakes, 5-7:00PM, NBC
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Weekly Stakes Race Schedule
February 9
- Golden Gate Fields: California Oaks, $75,000, 3yo f, 8.5f
- Gulfstream Park: Donn H. (G1), $500,000, 4&up, 9f
- Gulfstream Park: Gulfstream Park Turf H. (G1), $300,000, 4&up, 9f (turf)
- Gulfstream Park: Gulfstream Park Sprint (G2), $150,000, 4&u
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