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  • From DRF (The Inside Post): Mylute will not run in Belmont Stakes 2013. Posted 3 hours ago
  • Eblouissante breezed 4f :49.17 (18/44) at Belmont (dirt Training) on 5-22. Posted 8 hours ago
  • Giant Finish will make his next start in Belmont Stakes 2013. Posted 13 hours ago
  • Unlimited Budget is expected to face males in Belmont Stakes 2013. Posted 2 days ago
  • Verrazano will make his next start in the Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth on 6-16. Posted 2 days ago
  • Dreaming of Julia will make her next start in the Mother Goose at Belmont on 6-22. Posted 2 days ago
  • Game On Dude worked 4f in :50.60 (28/36) at Santa Anita on 5-20. Posted 2 days ago
  • Overanalyze, breezing for Belmont Stakes 2013, went 4f in :47.50 (3/34) at Belmont (dirt training) on 5-19.Posted 3 days ago
  • 2013 Belmont Stakes hopeful Palace Malice breezed 4f in :47.49 (2/34) at Belmont Park (dirt training) on 5-19. Posted 3 days ago
  • Coffee Clique romps in the Selene Stakes!Posted 3 days ago

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Has a new trainer :(
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  • travel_vic · if you ever had much of an idea about a horse, it might be worthwhile reading it · 40 minutes ago ·
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  • jmac500 · Just noticed you posted about him earler. · 27 minutes ago ·
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He looked good again today!
  • yukichan · In case anyone is wondering what happened to Gygistar, for whom the race is named: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=395348453912657&set=a.141766052604233.28695.137186773062161&type=1&theater · 31 minutes ago ·
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Fitting that Hooh Why's next probably start is the Matron on Saturday. She is in foal to Leroidesanimaux and is due January 15th. Her trainer says she is a once in a life time horse and has a few more "bullets left in her to fire". Evidently, pregnancy is agreeing with Hooh Why! I rode through my 7th month, but I am sure it is not the same thing ;)
http://www.drf.com/news/drf-partners-penn-national-raise-funds-thoroughbred-aftercare love thiis.
Congratulations to HRN's Rafirox and Cocoa2 for their first and twelfth finishes this round in the Major League Racing Competition.
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  • rafirox · Basically a competition where you pick four (4) entrants for the big race of the weekend, and put how ever much amount you'd like. They give you money for the pool they came in. For example, I got $813 for Oxbow winning ($32.50 to win) and got $120 or something for Mylute to show ($5.20).. I picked the top four (4) horses, Oxbow, Itsmyluckyday, Mylute, and Orb. I did not know how to adjust the amount wagered, so all had $25 coins on them. It was my first round ever; I came in first out of 5000 or so on my first try, talk about beginner's luck! You can sign up at majorleaugehorseracing.com.. We should make an HRN leauge! · 39 minutes ago ·
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  • jmac500 · http://www.survivalattheshore.com/ join this one, I'm entered. · 34 minutes ago ·
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The head of our patron education group stumped me on a bit of trivia this week. She said "name a thoroughbred person who set a world's record in the standardbred community." I was frankly amazed when I heard she broke the world's record for a mile trot UNDER SADDLE by more than 4 seconds. http://horseracing.about.com/library/weekly/aa100600a.htm
  • Mary Z. · I had never read about this before, tv. Really interesting article and photos of Julie Krone riding a champion trotting mare. Now I'd like to find the video of this race. · 38 minutes ago ·
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He won today.
He was an absolute monster in his race today.
Still, no. http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/78445/new-hampshire-house-kills-casino-gaming-bill
Believe it or not, another Triple Crown winner may come sooner than most believe.Read More
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  • mdamon77 · There will be a 3X crown winner in the next few years... and for a minute, forget about Smarty Jones, Real Quiet and Silver Charm, how about those who lost the Derby then dominated the Preakness and Belmont, like Point Given, Afleet Alex and Tabasco Cat!?!?!?! · 4 hours ago ·
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  • travel_vic · it took 25 years between Citation and Red with two more quickly....You cannot predict these things · 41 minutes ago ·
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Off at odds of 15-1, many were speechless when Oxbow won Preakness 138. What a fluke! What a horrible race! Why was it so horrible? Because horseplayers didn’t see it coming due to being blinded by Orb's so-called brilliance. Read More
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  • cpsoren121 · Hahaha this is great! Awesome photos LOL! · 46 minutes ago ·
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  • Jay S. · Excellent article! · 14 minutes ago ·
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*Bred in Florida, I began my career under the famed twin spires of Churchill Downs. *A winner of half of my starts as a juvenile, my first stakes race came as a three-year-old.Read More
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  • racehorsewriter · Nice one! Would never have nailed that one down so quickly. · 1 hour ago ·
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  • bruckat · curlin, or smarty jones · 7 seconds ago ·
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This is an interesting story about how the closing of Hollywood Park will effect Del Mar and Santa Anita. If the article is true it sounds like Del Mar is going to widen the turf course to take a run at hosting a Breeders Cup and they are seriously considering going back to dirt. http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/May/21/del-mar-horse-racing-/?#article-copy
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  • Buckpasser · Yes. TVG said they were planning to make changes to the turf course and grandstand for hosting the BC. · 1 hour ago ·
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  • travel_vic · The loss of Holly then might help them make enough changes to lure the Breeder's Cup. Many tracks don't want it even if they have the size since the BC people take such a HUGE bite of the profits, that the host barely makes much for all the trouble of putting it on. · 1 hour ago ·
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On May 22, My Happy Face worked 4F in 49:68 (24/44, dirt training) at Belmont Park.
  • tcglory · Has been transfered to Chad Browns Stable where the owner expects she will get the attention she deserves and the CCA is the first traget goal for her · 1 hour ago ·
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  • Southern.humor · Glad to hear it. C.Brown is a great guy and should work well with this filly. Hopefully we'll see her back in the races soon. · 1 hour ago ·
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Allow me to pose this question: If you could be a jockey and go back and ride any horse in any race, who would it be?
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  • SSilence86 · BP yeah I know. It'll take time, hopefully he'll come around. · 9 minutes ago ·
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  • Jay S. · Hopefully he'll refrain from his flying ninja leap on her. :) · 5 minutes ago ·
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Should be getting claimed this weekend I would think and finally leaving the baffert barn after 2 great wins in claiming competition
On this date in racing history: Ruffian made her career debut a winning one with a 15-length romp in 1974.
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  • airedale2008 · Ruffian’s half sister Revidere won the Ruffian Handicap the year after the match race. Ironically, she also won the Coaching Club American Oaks that year with Jacinto Vasquez aboard, was trained by David Whiteley, and took the Champion Three Year Old Filly award. Revidere also ran in 11 races, and was never out of the money. · 2 hours ago ·
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  • travel_vic · GRADING of races has NOTHING to do with the person, horse or tradition it is named for, BUT the yearly evaluation of the competitiveness and make up of the field by a select committee from the Thoroughbred Owner's and Breeders Association · 1 hour ago ·
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Orb
with all due respect to orb and his cnnections.he won the derby,no excuses.he will be etched in history alongside many other great horses.but to those that still cannot accept his preakness loss , or are blaming rosario, or the inside trip. i reviewed and watched the replays of the derby and preakness.note in the derby he beat goldencents by 49 lengths.in the preak. he beat him by half a length. he beat oxbow by 10.in the preakness oxbow returned the favor by defeating him convincingly.he beat itsmyluckyday by 22 lengths.IMLD came back to beaat him in the preakness.folks this has nothing to do with blame or excuses.ORB didn't like the derby track,he loved it.the others just simply hated it.so before you try to canonize ORB as the dissapointing super horse.review the facts.he simply ran over a track he handled alot better than the rest.but to his credit and they can never take it away.HE WON THE DERBY.personally i wish he does run in the belmont.he will be a highly overbet horse who because of the number of race in 5 weeks and the facts sted above,will not hit the board.
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  • tmallios1 · yes i am cupcake · 4 hours ago ·
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  • travel_vic · I don't know how many times it has been posted and it will be again FINAL TIMES day to day track to track are MEANINGLESS · 1 hour ago ·
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Betting two races today. But, this one is the big bet... Let's see how the odds are for this one.
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  • travel_vic · wonder if Big would have like this one. Used to love hearing the two versions of "Where the Turf Meets the Surf,' 40's version before first post and 70's version before the final race. · 1 hour ago ·
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  • travel_vic · that is BING not Big · 1 hour ago ·
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Orb may not be the immortal everyone thought him to be, but one loss at the hands of a bad post takes nothing away from him. He can still be great.Read More
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  • matthewmartini · I'm remember thinking before the race that only two horses had won the Preakness since 1960 from the #1 post. If one is superstitious (and I'm not), one could think that Orb would be in trouble. Despite the post, I felt that if Rosario could get him outside by the second turn that he was going to win. He didn't, he looked bothered on the inside, and tired on top of it. Even if he had been able to get on the outside, I still think that he would not have run down Oxbow. The pace was too slow and Orb's big run in the Derby led to a bounce. And the post didn't help. Itsmylucky day ran better than I had anticipated. · 2 hours ago ·
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  • Jay S. · You said it matthew! · 1 hour ago ·
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Thursday's 3rd race (2:04pm PT) from Betfair Hollywood Park is a $52,000 Maiden Special Weight affair for CA-bred or sired fillies and mares dashing six furlongs on the turf course.#8 Tribal Chatter (4-1) owns an ascending numbers pattern and was cle...
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