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With Havre de Grace away, Plum Pretty was left to play with her four opponents in the Oaklawn Park Grade I...Read More
  • dubby30 · Would love to see Plum Pretty show up 3 weeks later in the La Troienne. · 44 days ago ·
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  • zxswordxz · I would love to see the situation reverse and see if HDG would have show up in three weeks. · 44 days ago ·
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2011 Horse of the Year and defending Apple Blossom Handicap (G1) champion Havre de Grace tuned up for a possible defense of her title this Friday with a five furlong breeze in 1:02 1/5 under jockey Jenna Joubert. Trainer Larry Jones said that the work was a little slower than they had wanted and he ...Read More
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  • footlick · Mary Z.- obviously Summer Guest could. And in the Jockey Gold Cup, Shuvee could. And a little later, obviously, Lady's Secret. All ran against stronger males. You can put her in whatever historical perspective you want. The topic is closed for me. No more comments other than Euros from now on. And painting is not weary-making. It is actually energizing. But commissions need to get done on time. Take care. · 47 days ago ·
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  • Mary Z. · lol footy. I thought you meant painting your guest room or something. I didn't know you're an artist. Yes, you will be commenting on other than Euros. Come on. :) · 47 days ago ·
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4-5 favorite Plum Pretty makes her season debut over four other fillies and mares in the $500,000 Apple Blossom Handicap (G1) Friday at Oaklawn Park. Read More
  • Mary Z. · Twelve Twenty Two is a 7yo mare. She was off from 2/22/08 to 12/17/10. · 47 days ago ·
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  • BrianZipse · When is the last time a trainer won the Southwest (2x), Rebel, Fantasy, Apple Blossom, and Arkansas Derby in the same year? Never! The Power of Bob · 47 days ago ·
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In this case, two wrongs result in only one thing ... nothing but disappointment for the racing fans at Oaklawn Park. Read More
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  • footlick · bellesforever1- the racing secretary is supposed to weigh the horses to finish together. I think he gave them the correct weight spread. If they want to complain that they should have been weighted so they would win, then that is different. But the racing secretary did his job. He is not the one who did not do his job. They were mad that she didn't win. Period. That is why I don;t like their constant whining about it. . · 50 days ago ·
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  • CraigBradshaw · looks to me to be a duck over a petty issue. c'mon larry......stop wussing out!!! · 49 days ago ·
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Trainer Bob Baffert, who has already won three stakes races this meet, is going to attempt to win three more by taking two shots at Wednesday’s Fantasy Stakes with Jemima’s Pearl and Mamma Kimbo, one shot at Friday’s Apple Blossom Handicap (G1) with Plum Pretty and two shots in Saturday’s Arkansas D...Read More
Havre de Grace closed out her New Orleans winter vacation with a five furlong workout Sunday morning and will now ship to Oaklawn Monday with trainer Larry Jones expecting her to defend her title in the Grade 1 Apple Blossom on Friday, April 13.Read More
As compelling, or not, you found her seasonal debut, I believe the more interesting thing is all the talk surrounding where her connections chose to make her first start of the year.Read More
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  • icyhotboo · footlick, thanks for pointing out the difference the age factor plays in horse reaching physical and mental maturity, have a nice day, foolick. · 68 days ago ·
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  • icyhotboo · sorry meant have a nice day footlick, I do that a lot, lol. · 67 days ago ·
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On paper, yesterday’s $100,000 Bayakoa Stakes at Oaklawn Park looked like a two-horse race. Absinthe Minded and Tiz Miz Sue who had run one-two in the recent Pippin Stakes, were sent off as the 3-2, and 7-5 clear choices in the five-horse field. Looking at the past performances of the two it was cle...Read More
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  • Waya · Seen lots of horses that moved way up on a single track, Noble Nashua was practically unbeatable. · 101 days ago ·
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  • travel_vic · Race set up perfectly for this one as the co favorite did not have the win pattern fro that distance on that course · 101 days ago ·
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Why is it that every time you have two horses from either coast that develop a rivalry, the fans on the West Coast go completely insane?Read More
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  • shadowno · @skipaway2000, loved the Sandpit video, he was a real badass, thanks. BTW did you consider Gentleman, Southern Image, Real Quiet and Farma Way tearing up Pimlico? · 337 days ago ·
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  • GooberNation · who cares.. just where the horse was born.. the genetics could be ANYWHERE in the world · 336 days ago ·
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yeah(: her first grade one win(:
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  • commatothetop · Havre definitaly deserved that one. She's up there with the great ones. · 410 days ago ·
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  • blooy · agreed commatothetop. she is flying with improvment and should still be tough next round. · 409 days ago ·
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Havre De Grace tracked the pace in third and ran down Switch in late stretch to win Friday's Apple Blossom from Oaklawn Park. Read More
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  • iThoroughbred · I agree dubby and Waya. This mare is proving herself very nicely and is slowly but grandly moving her way to being a great little filly! I'm really excited to see what more comes out of her! · 411 days ago ·
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  • blooy · she is clearly the best, older filly or mare, just won it for fun. · 410 days ago ·
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Impressive Azeri Stakes winner Havre De Grace squares off against West Coast invader Switch in Friday's Apple Blossom at Oklawn Park. Read More
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  • LDP19 · Switch is dangerous over 8.5 furlongs, but Jones at Oaklawn with a monster filly will be hard to beat. · 413 days ago ·
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  • blooy · they will push each other i think. but i won't get to see it till it's online. · 411 days ago ·
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As one of the elite races on the calendar for fillies and mares, the Apple Blossom tends to draw its share of champions. That should again be the case this year as trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Friday that Blind Luck will likely make her next start in the Grade 1, $500,000 race at Oaklawn.“I’m pla...Read More
  • dubby30 · Havre de Grace tuned up for a start for the Grade 1, $500,000 Apple Blossom Handicap by breezing five furlongs in a bullet 57.80 seconds on Sunday morning at her Oaklawn Park base. It was her final prep for the 1 1/16-mile race for fillies and mares that will be run Friday · 416 days ago ·
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Mrs. Yoshio Fujita’s Ravi’s Song, convincing winner of Saturday’s second running of the $100,000 New Orleans Ladies, is being considered for a trip to central Arkansas to run in Oaklawn’s Grade I Apple Blossom Handicap on April 15.   “She came out of that race yesterday just fine,” said traine...Read More
Today, the Paulick Report received a puzzling email from PETA claiming that the upcoming Apple Blossom featuring Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta would be a 'grueling match race'. They went on to compare the April 9th race to the infamous breakdowns of Ruffian and Go For Wand. It appears that someone n...Read More
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  • Medlocke · I think it's great that people care about animals, and what happens to them. But these Peta people are lunatick fringe. Almost borderline terroist in the way they go about accomplishing what they're doing. Hey Peta, wanna see a thoroughbred really break down? Throw he or she in pen, or lock them away in a stall, and tell them they can't do what they were born and bread to do, which is RUN!!! Breaking a horses will to live is far more cruel than one breaking their leg, doing what every fiber of their being is telling them to do. IMO. · 753 days ago ·
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  • swale · I can pretty much confirm they were wackos from the start.. · 753 days ago ·
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It’s official, Zenyatta has joined the ranks of the all time greats with one of the most incredible feats in thoroughbred racing history: 16 wins in 16 lifetime starts, a perfect career. The great race mare has now equaled the record of 16 consecutive wins set by Triple Crown winner Citation and Cig...Read More
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  • callieracer · QUEEN ZENYATTA will go down in history as one the greatest horse of all time. I personal see her racing about 4 more time this year . She race at Churchill twice this 1 Belmont another at Hollywood. The get justly duly with Horse of the year crown · 771 days ago ·
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  • arazi · Callie... that's not a bad prediction. Zenyatta just has another gear that makes her relatively unstoppable. · 771 days ago ·
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In breathtaking fashion Jerry and Ann Moss’s superstar Zenyatta dominated the $500,000 Apple Blossom (G1) Friday at Oaklawn Park and pushed her unbeaten record to immortal status and topped it off with a bow to a crowd of 44,973 adoring fans.  Under jockey Mike Smith, the 6-year-old Kentucky-br...Read More
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  • gardenesque1 · Great point humphrey. It is amazing that Zenyatta has managed to win 16 straight with a sustained running style. · 778 days ago ·
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  • Arrrgy · How bout an awsome mare, out for a breeze, waiting to meet up with the big horses again? · 778 days ago ·
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Today at Oaklawn, Zenyatta makes her return to dirt and her first start outside of California in months, as she seeks to extend her winning streak against four others in the Apple Blossom.Read More
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  • Lmaris · Medlocke you're making it up out of whole cloth. You have no idea how much further back Zenyatta would have been with reasonable and not glacial fractions. You have no idea whether she'd been able to catch a faster pace. Zenyatta went to the lead early BECAUSE THERE WAS NO PACE. There wasn't much quality in the race either. Let's remember Zenyatta didn't run until late May 2009, and by mid-April of her 4 year old year, Zenyatta had run a grand total of 4 races, only 1 grade one. I doubt we'll see her out of California again. · 779 days ago ·
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  • luvzenyatta · yeah,that mare who didn't start racing til middle age, she's just a piece of poly track trash,always running against inferior opponents,; about the only thing she's done right is run 16 straight races undefeated:) · 779 days ago ·
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Any questions about two-time champion older female Zenyatta’s prowess on a dirt surface were answered with a huge exclamation point on Friday at Oaklawn Park.Read More
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  • rossington · Heaven help us, is it possible that she may skip across the conventional dirt even faster than she does across a synthetic track? If she does, there's going to be a lot of disappointment for other thoroughbred's this season, that race against Zenyatta. Granted, the competition that was supposed to be there wasn't, but if you'll pardon the pun, to "Be Fair", Zenyatta never broke out of any faster of a clip than an exercise canter for the whole race. She was under a hand ride the whole way, and found herself at the lead so fast, she almost looked confused as to what to do. IMO, if Rachel Alexandra had been at the Apple Blossom today, the fractions would certainly have been faster, but the outcome of the race wouldn't have changed one iota. If Mike Smith, who never ask for anything the whole race, would've had to ask for Rachel today, Rachel would've found more there than what she's capable of handling. IMO. · 781 days ago ·
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  • humphrey · Winning on dirt is not anything new for her. She won this same race a few years back. · 781 days ago ·
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Race Results & Past Performances

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View Details04/13/12OP101 1/16 mD04+ FApple Blossom-G1Plum PrettyAbsinthe MindedTiz Miz Sue1:42.64
View DetailsView Video04/15/11OP101 1/16 mD04+ FApple Blossom-G1Havre de GraceSwitchAbsinthe Minded1:42.19
View DetailsView Video04/09/10OP101 1/8 mD04+ FApple Blossom-G1ZenyattaTaptamBe Fair1:50.71
View Details04/04/09OP81 1/16 mD04+ FApple Blossom-G1Seventh StreetSuperior StormAcoma1:43.13
View DetailsView Video04/05/08OP81 1/16 mD04+ FApple Blossom-G1ZenyattaBrownie PointsGinger Punch1:42.64
View Details04/08/06OP91 1/16 mD04+ FApple Blossom-G1Spun SugarHappy TicketLa Reason1:42.59
View DetailsView Video04/03/04OP91 1/16 mD04+ FApple Blossom-G1AzeriWild SpiritStar Parade1:41.24
View DetailsView Video04/05/03OP81 1/16 mD04+ FApple Blossom-G1AzeriTake Charge LadyMandy's Gold1:43.00
View DetailsView Video04/06/02OP111 1/16 mD04+ FApple Blossom-G1AzeriAffluentMiss Linda1:42.75
View Details04/19/89OP91 1/16 mD04+ FApple Blossom-G1BayakoaGoodbye HaloInvited Guest1:41.60
View Details04/16/86OP91 1/16 mD04+ FApple Blossom-G1Love SmittenLady's SecretSefa's Beauty1:40.40
View Details04/02/75OP81 70yD04+ FApple BlossomSusan's GirlTruchasMatuta1:42.40
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