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The Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s March sale of 2-year-olds in training has the pole position, tasked with establishing market momentum for the season – and freshman sire Drain the Clock could be getting away from the pole quickly.
There is a vacancy at the top of California's older Quarter Horse division in advance of Sunday's $160,000 Brad McKinzie Los Alamitos Winter Championship. The 400-yard race, the track's first major event of the year for the division, will provide some clarity going into spring.
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The heart of harness racing may be the caretakers and trainers who spend their time making sure each horse is ready to compete on race day. The brain is perhaps the owners, who make the decisions to purchase the horses and sometimes assist the trainers in deciding where the horse will race. The drivers can be reflected in the arms and legs as they make the motions which signal to the horses when to go.
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The bids are in and now the future of the Hambletonian rests in the hands of the Board of Directors at the Hambletonian Society.
David Aragona's TimeformUS Highlight Horse for Friday, March 6, at Aqueduct.
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There Goes Harvard, winner of the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup in 2022, was recently retired, trainer Michael McCarthy said earlier this week.
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The revamped Oceanside Stakes for 3-year-olds at a mile on turf will be run as a listed stakes at Del Mar in July. The race was previously restricted to non-winners of a first-place purse of $50,000 or more to the winner at a mile or more in the calendar year in which it was run.
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Santa Anita has added Thursday, April 2 as a racing day to its current winter-spring meeting, the track announced recently.
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Louis Romanet, the longtime chairman of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities with a long pedigree in racing, died on March 4 at the age of 78, according to organizations with ties to him.
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Two trainers have two fillies each for the $100,000 Allen “Black Cat” LaCombe Memorial, the featured race Saturday at Fair Grounds, but a third trainer with one key entrant won't be participating at all.
