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2 hrs ago | Thoroughbred Times

Backtalk flashes late kick in Bashford Manor score

Gold Mark Farm's Backtalk willingly accelerated in the final furlong and scored a clear victory in the $110,500 Bashford Manor Stakes on Friday at Churchill Downs.

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7 hrs ago | WBNS

Downpayments At Racetrack Casino's At Risk

Multimillion-dollar down-payments on racetrack slots proposed by Gov. Ted Strickland are at risk if Ohio voters approve a competing casino plan in November, the chief executive of a major racing company said Friday.

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Fri Jul 03, 2009

The Daily Advertiser

Horse Racing: Storybook start for Sellers

OPELOUSAS - As the sound of cracking metal echoed toward the backside barns when the gate flew open on the first race Thursday night at Evangeline Downs, Shane Sellers was finally at peace.

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Blood Horse

Churchill's Final Test Night Card is Best Yet

Churchill Downs officials say their test of night racing this summer has been a great success after large crowds packed the track for the final evening.

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HarnesRacing

Historic Week set to begin at the Meadowlands

Harness racing's Grand Circuit makes the first of its two summer stops at the Meadowlands during Historic Week, July 1-4. Originally raced at the Goshen Historic Track in New York, the eight Historic stakes events moved to the Meadowlands in 1979.

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KTVN Reno

Blame pulls out 1 1/4-length win at Churchill Downs

Claiborne Farm's Blame found running room at the eighth pole for a 1 1/4-length win in Thursday's featured $50,397 Moon Over Prospect Purse for 3-year-olds at Churchill Downs.

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Andover Advertiser

Henderson fined and banned for three months

Nicky Henderson has been fined 40,000 and is unable to make entries for three months over the Moonlit Path case.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Sea The Stars all the rage for CoralEclipse

Bookmakers are bracing themselves for another wave of support for the John Oxx-trained Sea The Stars, who faces nine rivals in his attempt to emulate the great Nashwan in Saturday's Coral-Eclipse at Sandown Park.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

The Courier-Journal

Don MacBeth Memorial Fund helps jockeys stay on track

Injuries are commonplace in sports, but there's only one sport where you'll find an ambulance following the athletes.

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WBAL-AM Baltimore

Maryland Racing Dates Set For Rest Of '09

The Maryland Jockey Club and Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemena s Association have agreed to the live racing dates and stakes schedule for the balance of 2009, including the return of the Grade I Frank J. De Francis Dash after a one-year hiatus.

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KMOT-TV Minot

ND`s Top Horse Racing Regulator Quits

North Dakota`s top horse racing regulator has resigned. Randy Blaseg`s departure was disclosed at a state Racing Commission meeting on Tuesday.

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Hoof Beats

Rembrandt Spur cruises to Currier & Ives victory

Rembrandt Spur cruises to Currier & Ives victory Tuesday, June 30, 2009 - by Evan Pattak, for The Meadows Meadow Lands, PA --- Rembrandt Spur made a decisive quarter-pole move to the front, then cruised on top to capture the $119,679 final of the Currier & Ives for 3-year-old colt and gelding trotters on Monday at The Meadows.

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Blood Horse

Canadian Jockey Landry Records 2,000th Win

Robert Landry, who began his riding career in 1981, recorded his 2,000th win on Canada Day July 1 at Woodbine.

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

The Daily Record

Fortune favoured at Coral-Eclipse

JIMMY FORTUNE is in dreamland after winning the ride on Rip Van Winkle in the Coral-Eclipse. Johnny Murtagh last week failed in an appeal to reduce a ban incurred on Kayf Aramis at Royal Ascot, and the mount on Aidan O'Brien's colt was handed to Fortune.

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Blood Horse

Viva Pataca Named Hong Kong Horse of the Year

Viva Pataca finally achieved his rightful place alongside the greats of Hong Kong racing when he was named Horse of the Year for 2008-09 at the annual Champions Awards.

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Berrows Journal

Races abandoned due to water shortage

RACING at Worcester today has been abandoned due to a shortage of on-course water for the horses.

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KATC-TV Lafayette

Trainer accused in Angola horse scheme

Federal prosecutors have unsealed an indictment returned nearly two years ago by a grand jury investigating allegations of corruption in state prison agricultural operations.

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Recordpub.com

State budget OK on hold for a week: Lawmakers still at odds over slots

Lawmakers and Gov. Ted Strickland are giving themselves an extra week to work out their budget differences, after the state Senate adopted a continuing resolution authorizing spending through the first seven days of the new fiscal year.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

Irish Examiner

Luck be a Lady fro Coogan

Scobie Coogan saddled half of his Newmarket stable to success at Brighton as Lady Florence obliged in the Brighton & Hove Streamline Taxis Selling Stakes.

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UTV

Masterofthehorse can give Heffernan Derby hat-trick

The Irish Derby has often had a stronger field than the equivalent races at Epsom and Chantilly, benefiting from its later position in the calendar to attract the best horses from all three countries for a kind of decider.

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