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Not all of the participants involved in a four-horse spill Friday at Saratoga came out of the race unscathed. I Love Giraffes, who fell when she clipped heels with a horse to her inside during the running of the Wild Applause Stakes, was diagnosed with a fractured left hip, trainer Chad Summers.
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Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., has canceled its 4th of July card just hours before it was set to begin, another casualty of the heat wave that has disrupted racing throughout the U.S. over the past week.
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The 2-year-old Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) season is officially underway, and in the first leg of the Gold Series, the two C$100,000 divisions for pacing colts and geldings were won by Gogo Gadget and TH Benedict.
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Aces And Cinches lowered his lifetime mark from 1:52 2/5 to 1:48 1/5 in an eye-catching victory in Friday night's lone $94,000 Indiana Sire Stakes event for 3-year-old male pacers at Harrah's Hoosier Park.
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Trainer Ron Burke went three-for-three in $43,484 Pennsylvania Sire Stakes divisions for 2-year-old pacing fillies on Friday evening at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows.
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Friday was a hot day at Saratoga, but neither the temperature nor the heat index came close to forcing the cancellation of the racetrack’s opening-day card.
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Heeere’s Johnny, the only maiden in the field, rallied from last just a furlong from the wire to upset a very contentious edition of the $150,000 Saranac Stakes on a hot and steamy Friday afternoon at Saratoga.
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Trained by Maryland-based Cal Lynch, Harper's Corner scored a gate-to-wire victory under Paco Lopez in Friday's Schuylerville at Saratoga.
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The $2 pick six at Los Alamitos on Saturday begins with a carryover of $17,050. The carryover was assured on Friday after the third of the six races in the sequence when Perfecto Amor ($101.40) edged 2-5 One Smokin Dude in an $8,000 claimer for sprinters.
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John Parisella, a man with a big personality, who was dubbed “trainer to the stars,” and a winner of more than 1,200 races in a four-decade-plus career, died Friday in a hospital in Long Island, N.Y., according to his ex-wife Melissa. He was 85.
