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05-16-2008, 10:01 AM
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The nameless ones, in Puerto Rico.
Disturbing. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h...1DB8AD90MJNB80
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05-18-2008, 10:11 AM
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He lived up to his name, and had his very own Cinderella story.
In 2006, when the Takeover Target fiasco occured in Hong Kong and he (TT) was withdrawn from the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Sprint, Absolute Champion, a mere stand-by starter, drew in. He shocked everyone and won, beating an international field.... horses like the diva from Japan, She is Tosho, Benbaum, etc. The locals were a tough bunch... Silent Witness, Scintillation, et al. http://www.hkjc.com/english/racing/r...2006&raceno=05 Ab Champ went on to win the Chairman's Sprint Prize... http://www.hkjc.com/english/racing/r...2007&raceno=07 ... the HSBC Premiere Bowl (beating Armada, Vengeance of Rain...)... http://www.hkjc.com/english/racing/r...2006&raceno=09 ... and recently (January) the Centenary Sprint Cup (beating Sacred Kingdom, Able Prince, etc.)... http://www.hkjc.com/english/racing/r...2008&raceno=07 He was 2nd to Sacred Kingdom in his last HK start (Cent. Sprint Cup)... http://www.hkjc.com/english/racing/r...2008&raceno=07 ... and he lost his life last night in Singapore, in the KrisFlyer... a race I'll never bother to watch. Ab Champ, whose original name was Genuis and Evil, was currently 4th on the Top 50 list... Top 50 Horses (as of 15/5/2008) excerpt... Rating Name Brand No Trainer 130 SACRED KINGDOM G268 P F Yiu 129 GOOD BA BA E201 A Schutz 129 VIVA PATACA G096 J Moore 126 ABSOLUTE CHAMPION E060 D J Hall 126 ARMADA E246 J Size 123 BULLISH LUCK C155 A S Cruz 123 FLORAL PEGASUS G011 A S Cruz 121 HELLO PRETTY E210 A S Cruz He leaves behind connections who are obviously devastated, and fans all over the world. He will be be missed, but never forgotten. Run in peace, good boy and Hong Kong raider. A sad day.
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05-21-2008, 04:12 PM
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05-22-2008, 07:37 PM
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What a shame.
From DRF... Celtic Dreamin, '07 British Columbia Derby winner, euthanized By RANDY GOULDING Celtic Dreamin, who won the Grade 3 British Columbia Derby last September and the Crystal Water Handicap at Santa Anita in March, was euthanized after breaking a leg at Hollywood Park on Sunday. The gelding's owner, K.K. Sangara, said the injury happened after a six-furlong work. "He worked great, but he broke a leg when he was pulling up after he had finished the work," said Sangara. In 12 starts, Celtic Dreamin won 6 races and finished second 4 times, earning $600,543. He was trained by Rafael Becerra. It was the second straight year that the winner of the B.C. Derby died in his 4-year-old year following a workout in California. Last year Halo Steven died from a reported heart attack after a work at Hollywood Park in January.
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05-24-2008, 06:10 PM
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Flawless Treasure, in the Sheepshead Bay today...
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05-25-2008, 12:55 PM
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Waveland Avenue, 4YO gelding, at Hollywood Park yesterday, and Silent Roar, 5 years old, at Monmouth.....
Rest in peace.
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05-25-2008, 01:23 PM
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06-09-2008, 08:03 AM
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Yanks Music
She was some kind of nice racehorse.. Saw her a bunch of times.
Yanks Music, champion filly, euthanized By GLENYE CAIN OAKFORD LEXINGTON, Ky. - Yanks Music, 1996's champion 3-year-old filly, was euthanized on May 15 because of complications after colicking, the manager of Adena Springs, Steven Nicholson, confirmed Friday. Yanks Music was 15 and was carrying a Thunder Gulch foal who was not saved. Her 2008 Smart Strike colt is doing well. Adena's owner, Frank Stronach, purchased Yanks Music in foal to Storm Cat for $1 million at Keeneland's November mixed sale in 1997. Yanks Music, an Air Forbes Won mare, had an inauspicious career as a broodmare, producing just two starters and one winner - the Touch Gold colt Yanks Gold - from seven foals. But she was justifiably famous for her racing exploits for her owner and breeder, Michael Fennessy, and his partner Audrey H. Cooper. Fennessy, who bred the filly in the name of his Irish American Bloodhorse Agency, had tried twice to sell Yanks Music at auction, turning down $6,500 for her at the 1994 Keeneland September yearling sale and $20,000 at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s spring juvenile sale the following year. In the end, he kept her and put her in training with Leo O'Brien, where his belief in her was borne out. Yanks Music won four Grade 1 races for a total of seven victories in nine lifetime starts, and she earned $787,600. Yanks Music won all four of her Grade 1 races in 1996 and was beaten only twice that year, when she finished second in the Acorn and the Monmouth Breeders' Cup Oaks. She won the Mother Goose over future champion Escena and later took the Alabama, Ruffian, and Beldame, defeating such fillies as the 1995 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner, My Flag, 1995's champion 3-year-old, Serena's Song, and Grade 1 winner Clear Mandate. Her owners flirted with the possibility of taking on Cigar in the 1996 Breeders' Cup Classic, but an ankle injury forced Yanks Music to the sidelines. While claiming her championship several months later at the Eclipse Awards banquet, Fennessy announced that Yanks Music would retire. Initial plans called for her to be bred to Cigar, who had retired after finishing third in the 1996 Classic, but that was upset by the horse's infertility. Mated to Storm Cat, Yanks Music was put in the sale where Stronach purchased her.
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06-09-2008, 02:12 PM
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Silver Hawk...
http://breeding.bloodhorse.com/article/45662.htm ... and Kid Lemonade (Race 7 at Philly yesterday).
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