The Liberty Bell Stakes Series, designed to give talented Pennsylvania-sired horses a final seasonal chance at a nice payday, began on Thursday afternoon at Harrah's Philadelphia. There was an event for 2-year-old males on both gaits, and both freshmen winners, in addition to the winner of the top handicap trot for overnight horses, continued recent strings of successes on Thursday.
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Trainer Ron Burke is hoping for a rebound of sorts this Friday night as he sends out an arsenal of sophomore pacers in a pair of stake events at Harrah's Hoosier Park. Burke has half of the 10-horse field entered in the $160,000 Monument Circle for sophomore male pacers and four of the 10 pacing fillies set to go in the $125,000 USS Indianapolis Memorial.
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The $1.32 million finals of the Massachusetts Breeders Stakes were held at Plainridge Park on Thursday (Oct. 29) with eight divisions going postward for $165,000 each. Driver Yannick Gingras stole the show by winning five of the eight finals.
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Magnitude, the multiple stakes-winning 4-year-old who was listed as the 6-1 fifth choice on the morning line, was scratched from Saturday’s $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic due to an issue with his left foreleg, trainer Steve Asmussen said Thursday afternoon.
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Shenandoah Downs will dole out end-of-season awards Sunday for leading driver, leading trainer and Horse of the Meet when the 11th annual fall harness racing campaign comes to a close.
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All the players participating in this year’s Breeders’ Cup were pretty much in maintenance mode on a crisp but absolutely gorgeous fall morning Thursday at Keeneland. The cool weather had many of the horses really on their toes during their gallops.
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The Meadowlands will have three carryovers available on Friday (Oct. 30) to satisfy the sweet tooth of any punter before the Kindergarten Series for 2-year-olds, a tasty treat with purses totaling $500,000, takes center stage on Halloween Night.
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When the 5-year-old gelding Sorrento Sky earned an automatic berth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint by winning the Grade 2 Green Flash Handicap at Del Mar, the work of getting him to Keeneland was just beginning. It took several lucky breaks and tough decisions for trainer Philip D’Amato and the connections to get him to Kentucky.
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Nestled in a back corner atop a hill at Keeneland, far away from most other Breeders’ Cup entrants on the other side of the training track, trainer Ralph Beckett and the 5-year-old Starlust have grown accustomed to life on the outskirts of the Kentucky scene this week.
