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09-30-2015, 02:29 PM
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Dirt Mile
Approximate post time: 4:10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30. Purse: $1 million. Distance: 1 mile. 1. Red Vine (126) Rosario/Clement 2. Bradester (126) Lanerie/Kenneally 3. Liam's Map (126) Castellano/Pletcher 4. Mr. Z (123) Bravo/Lukas 5. Lea (126) Lezcano/Mott 6. Street Strategy (126) Albarado/Morse 7. War Envoy (123) Moore/O'Brien 8. Wicked Strong (126) Velazquez/Jerkens 9. Tapiture (126) Santana/Asmussen 10. Valid (126) Juarez/Vitali 11. War Story (123) Parker/Radosevich
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984. Last edited by Kasept : 10-26-2015 at 01:30 PM. 
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10-07-2015, 02:29 PM
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One-mile race gets test drive at Keeneland
By Marty McGee LEXINGTON, Ky. – History of a sort will be made Friday with the running of the seventh race, a $64,000 optional claimer for 3-year-olds and up: It’s the first one-mile race on the Keeneland main track. The race is essentially a road test prior to the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Oct. 30. With the 1 1/16-mile circumference of its main track, Keeneland never has contested races at a mile because of the short run into the first turn. The reality is that these mile races actually will be “about” a mile since the starting gate will be positioned 70 yards before the regular finish pole; the clocking of the race won’t start until the lead horse triggers the electronic beam on the pole. The secondary finish wire (at the sixteenth pole) will be in use, as is done for all 1 1/16-mile dirt races here. According to Keeneland racing secretary Ben Huffman: “The run to the first turn will be 463 feet, which actually is longer than what it is at Santa Anita,” where the BC Dirt Mile had been run the last three years. “We’ve actually got another three or four of these races in our condition book before the Breeders’ Cup to give the jockeys and our track crew a feel for them.”
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984.
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10-08-2015, 05:50 AM
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Appealing Tale is Dirt Miling; Kobe's Back added to Sprint after strong SA SPR Championship run with Wild Dude; Rene Douglas came close to committing to Sprint for Private Zone..
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984.
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10-09-2015, 07:22 AM
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Favorite Tale takes first step towards getting to Breeders' Cup Sprint
By Mike Welsch FAVORITE TALE, who appeared doomed to miss the Breeders' Cup Sprint as a result of the quarantine at Parx which currently extends to Oct. 29 , took a big step towards making the race when he was moved to Twin Ponds Farm in Pennsylvania on Thursday. According to Dora Delgado of the Breeders' Cup, now that he has moved out of the quarantined track, officials can begin drawing blood on Favorite Tale and if he's clean for 14 days, he'd be cleared to ship to Keeneland in time to run in the Sprint. Favorite Tale won a Breeders' Cup Challenge race, the Smile at Gulfstream Park, in July. According to trainer Guadalupe Preciado, Favorite Tale has a barn all to himself at the farm, which he said is located on the Maryland/Pennsylvania border just a couple of miles from the Fair Hills training center in Maryland. "The one good thing is that it's pretty quiet here," said Preciado. "The bad thing is the track is only a 1/2 mile so I'm trying to figure out a way to breeze him. I might try to contact the people at Fair Hill to see if they'd allow me to bring my horse over there to work after regular training hours are over."
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984.
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10-10-2015, 06:14 AM
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Cut badly above her right hind hock while winning the Buffalo Trace Franklin County Friday, this from Arnaud Delacour this morning on Ageless:
"Dr Hunt from Hagyard performed surgery last night. There is no structural damages. The surgery was essentially cleaning up the tissues and stitching the wound. She should be fine. Breeder's Cup is uncertain."
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984.
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10-14-2015, 10:15 AM
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Cant wait to go but I find not timing 70 friggin yards of a race plus the potential for additional run up simply comical. Perhaps NYRA, TB, FG, etc. should learn from the most recognized brand in the industry and just not time races for 40 to 70 yards?
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10-14-2015, 10:38 AM
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i agree, freddy. use tracks that can run the races. and for crying out loud, we all know what tracks have big days and big successes for the bc.
just ridiculous.
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10-14-2015, 03:07 PM
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I think the distances were meant to differentiate the two a bit. All of the biggest F&M Sprint races during the year are at 7fs (Madison, Humana Distaff, Ballerina, La Brea) with the Princess Rooney (now a G2) being the only exception. I think the F&M sprint distance rationale just followed that lead.
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10-14-2015, 06:45 PM
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For example, would horses like Meafara, Xtra Heat, Very Subtle, Safely Kept, and Soviet Problem have stuck with their own sex going 7f had there been a FM Sprint back in the 80s and 90s? Considering she ran off (supposedly anyways) in her last start, wouldn't Taris possibly take a long look at the Sprint?
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