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Results, video replays, and recap articles for the Friday card of the 2013 Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita.[bc_video_id:309134:]

Meadowlands Racetrack canceled its Friday card consisting of six turf races due to heavy rain that hit northern New Jersey overnight and was expected to continue through early afternoon, the track announced Friday morning.

The Meadowlands remained open for simulcasting.

Saturday’s six-race card marks the final day of live racing for the all-turf “Monmouth-at-Meadowlands” meet. The track’s Jersey Six wager, which has a carryover of $2,638.07, must be paid out Saturday to winning tickets that select the most winners on the card.

ARCADIA, Calif. – As far as the man himself is concerned, he never went away. But to the rest of the Thoroughbred world, 2013 has been the year D. Wayne Lukas stormed back onto racing’s main stage.

He won the Preakness, his first Triple Crown victory in 13 years, with Oxbow. He won the Travers with Will Take Charge. And the faded don of the Breeders’ Cup has returned this fall at Santa Anita with major players in the Classic and the Juvenile, and bit roles in the Sprint, the Turf, and the Juvenile Turf, his keenest Breeders’ Cup presence in more than a decade.

ARCADIA, Calif. – For the past three years, Game On Dude has ranked as one of the best older horses in the country. But like the Buffalo Bills teams that went to four straight Super Bowls in the early 1990s and lost them all, Game On Dude has yet to win the one event that would finally bring him an elusive championship.

In 2011, at an overlooked 14-1, Game On Dude led the Breeders’ Cup Classic until deep stretch at Churchill Downs but was passed by Drosselmeyer, costing Game On Dude the title of champion older male and perhaps Horse of the Year.

 Bill Mott,  who will send out a handful of leading contenders this week end in the Breeders’ Cup, was among a  panel of guests who helped raise money for a Thoroughbred retirement organization, TROTT, on Tuesday night at The Derby restaurant in Arcadia. 

After nearly two months without rain, wet weather is in the forecast for Friday in New York just in time for the opening of Aqueduct.

An eight-race card is being offered Friday along with the simulcast of the first day of the Breeders’ Cup from Santa Anita. First post at Aqueduct on Friday – and again Saturday – is 12:25 p.m. Eastern before it returns to its usual time of 12:20 beginning Sunday.

There figures to be 23 cards of racing on the main track through Dec. 1. It is expected that racing will move to the winterized inner track on Dec. 4.

Allen Jerkens most likely will be at his Long Island, N.Y., home Saturday afternoon, but the Hall of Fame trainer’s presence will be felt across the country when the field is loaded for Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita.

It is under the tutelage of the legendary Jerkens that Leah Gyarmati, the trainer of Juvenile Fillies morning-line favorite Sweet Reason, and Mike Hushion, the trainer of second choice Artemis Agrotera, learned invaluable lessons in horsemanship.

ARCADIA, Calif. – When Royal Delta lined up in the starting gate a year ago at Santa Anita against two undefeated champion fillies, Awesome Feather and My Miss Aurelia, it seemed as though the Breeders’ Cup’s championship dirt race for females had reached its zenith.

But, like the boys in Spinal Tap, they raised it one louder this year.

All things considered, Ken Ramsey would rather let his horses do the talking. But since they can’t – talk, that is – Ramsey is more than happy to share a few thoughts on their behalf.

“Yes, I’ve been told I’ve got a big mouth,” Ramsey said with a laugh earlier this week, as if conceding the grass was green.

It takes a lot to make Jim Rome miss work, but the allure of the Breeders’ Cup is enough to make the 49-year-old sports-talk superstar take off Friday to be on hand at Santa Anita.

Rome owns a stake in Mizdirection, the defending champion in the $1 million BC Turf Sprint on Saturday. Mike Puype, the trainer of Mizdirection, said Rome will be here Friday and Saturday not only as a co-owner but as one of 15 Breeders’ Cup ambassadors who receive VIP treatment as they help to spread the word about horse racing to the world at large.