Posts Tagged ‘horse racing’
Sunday, May 20th, 2012
I’ll Have Another came from behind to beat Bodemeister in the 137th Preakness Stakes, keeping Triple Crown hopes alive for the trainer Doug O’Neill and the jockey Mario Gutierrez.
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I’ll Have Another Wins 137th Preakness Stakes
Tags: 137th, alive, bodemeister, bodemeister (race horse), gutierrez, mario, hope, hopes-alive, horse racing, jockey, mario, o'neill, doug, preakness stakes, the-137th, triple
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
Doug O’Neill’s Kentucky Derby victory places him — and his troubled record — center stage at a time when thoroughbred racing faces calls for federal regulation.
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Trainer of Kentucky Derby Winner Has a Troubled Record
Tags: border, center-stage, fed, horse racing, kentucky, o'neill, doug, racing-faces, red, reddam, paul, regulation, troubled, troubled-record, victory-places
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
Large payouts to owners make it profitable for owners to field thoroughbreds that are past their prime, sometimes with fatal results.
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Breakdown: Big Purses, Sore Horses, and Death
Tags: border, doping (sports), field-thoroughbreds, gambling, horse racing, make-it-profitable, owners-make, prime, profit, red
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
Notinrwildestdremz, one of 177 starving and neglected horses rescued from a farm in upstate New York in 2009, is entered for her first start on Sunday at Aqueduct.
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Filly Makes Ride From Neglect to the Racetrack
Tags: art, border, her-first, horse racing, horses, irs, kerr, angelika, kerr, sean, paragallo, ernie, red, sunday
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Sunday, March 25th, 2012
The new economics of horse racing are making an always-dangerous game even more so, as lax oversight puts animal and rider at risk.
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Breakdown | Death and Disarray at the Racetrack: Death and Disarray at America’s Racetracks
Tags: border, economic, Economics, game-even, horse racing, horses, king, lax-oversight, new-economics, oversight, puts-animal, rider-at-risk, risk
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Times photographers were a presence at Aqueduct, Belmont, Yonkers and Roosevelt from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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Lens: They Had the Horse Right Here
Tags: 1950s, 1970s, belmont, belmont stakes, darcy eveleigh, david w. dunlap, from-the-1950s, horse racing, horses, photography, presence-at-aqueduct, sports photography, through-the-1970s
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
Ridden by Jesus Castanon, Shackleford edged Animal Kingdom, the winner of the Kentucky Derby.
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Scattered at the Start, Shackleford Finishes the Right Way
Tags: animal, border, horse racing, jesus-castanon, preakness stakes, shackleford (horse), the-winner, winner
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Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Horsemen say that more often than not, the winner of the Preakness is the best horse of its generation.
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For Trainers, the Preakness ‘Legitimizes’ a Horse
Tags: baltimore (md), border, generation, horse racing, more-often, preakness, preakness stakes, the-best
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Monday, May 9th, 2011
The team behind the Derby victory continues to show how horsemanship rather than black bag veterinarian work can succeed.
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On Horse Racing: Animal Kingdom’s Win Is Victory for the Sport
Tags: black, black-bag, border, horse racing, preakness stakes, show-how, team-behind, victory-continues
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Sunday, May 8th, 2011
A horse that had never run on dirt overcame steep obstacles with a jockey who was only paired with him late this week, covering the track in 2:02.04.
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A Winner’s Circle Full of Firsts
Tags: dirt-overcame, him-late, horse racing, louisville (ky), red, steep-obstacles, track, velazquez, john, week
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
The Run for the Roses, which is the first leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown, takes place Saturday at Churchill Downs in Louisville. Read full article > >

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The Kentucky Derby
Tags: 2011?, art, border, churchill-downs, full-article, horse racing, roses, saturday, takes-place, the-first, triple-crown
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
For the first time in a decade, not a single winner of the six major Kentucky Derby prep races earned a Beyer Speed Figure of at least 100, considered the standard for a high-quality stakes champion.
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Derby Field Lacks Speed of Horses in the Past
Tags: border, considered-the-standard, figure, horse racing, kentucky, prep-races, single-winner, standard
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Tags: border, horse racing, king, preakness stakes, seem-as-hard, sometimes-seem
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation has been so slow in paying for the upkeep of horses that scores have wound up neglected, according to interviews and inspection reports.
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Ex-Racehorses Starve as Charity Fails in Mission to Care for Them
Tags: border, cruelty to animals, horse racing, horses, interview, malnutrition, Philanthropy, red, retirement, the-upkeep, thoroughbred, upkeep
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Tuesday, January 18th, 2011
Zenyatta beat the talented colt Blame, the only rival ever to finish in front of her, and Goldikova for the honor.
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Zenyatta Is Named Horse of the Year
Tags: beat-the-talented, blame, border, goldikova, honor, horse racing, rival-ever, talented, talented-colt, zenyatta (race horse)
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