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Tickets On Sale For 54th Annual Eclipse Awards

Tickets for the 54th annual Resolute Racing Eclipse Awards, held Jan. 23 at the Breakers Palm Beach, officially went on sale Monday. The awards, which honor horse racing's finest each year since 1971, will welcome co-hosts Britney Eurton and Lindsay Czarniak along with Caton Bredar who will serve as the ceremony announcer. In addition to [...]

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Canadian Champion Tyson To Take Up Stud Duty At Stone Jug In PA

Canadian champion Tyson (by Tapit), purchased for $175,000 by Darryl and Jill Myers when topping the final session of last week's Keeneland November sale, will stand his first season at the couple's Stone Jug Ranch which is a new Thoroughbred operation in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, the breeders said in a release on Sunday. “We've talked about [...]

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'TDN Rising Star' With The Angels Soars In Key Cents Stakes At The Big A, Stays Perfect

Still undefeated now in four starts, 'TDN Rising Star' With the Angels added a third consecutive stakes win Sunday with the Key Cents Stakes at Aqueduct. Stepped up in distance while facing New York-breds in each of her three prior starts, she cut back here to six furlongs (her winning debut distance) off the one-mile [...]

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Soul Rush Finally Gets His Group 1 Title in Mile Championship

The 41st running of the G1 Mile Championship was a salty one, and when the dust settled, it was Soul Rush (Jpn) (Rulership {Jpn}) who came out on top to claim his first victory at the highest level in the autumn highlight at Kyoto on Sunday. The fourth betting choice faced a line up which [...]

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Nominations Revealed for the 2024 Cartier Racing Awards

The nominations have been revealed for the 34th Cartier Racing Awards, which will be presented at the Dorchester Hotel in London on the evening of Wednesday, November 20. The contenders for the Cartier Horse Of The Year include Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe heroine Bluestocking (GB) (Camelot {GB}) and top-class miler Charyn (Ire) (Dark Angel [...]

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Chapel Stud Announce Death of Promising Jumps Sire Walzertakt

Chapel Stud's National Hunt stallion Walzertakt (Ger) has died following a freak accident, the operation announced on Sunday. Roisin Close, Chapel Stud manager, said, “Unfortunately, Walzertakt incurred an accident whilst receiving rehab in preparation to stand next season and despite everyone's best efforts to save him he had to be put to sleep. We extend [...]

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Horse Euthanized After Last Race At Woodbine On Saturday, Track Deemed Safe By AGCO For Sunday

During the finale of a 12-race card at Woodbine Racetrack on Saturday, Flawless Ruler (Honor Code) was eased at the top of the lane during a $15,000 claimer going a mile and a sixteenth over the all-weather course, was vanned off, and after an examination by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO)-licensed veterinarians [...]

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Nobals Back to Winning Ways in Kennedy Road, Hong Kong On the Horizon

Having picked up the greatest victory of his career, thus far, in the 2023 GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, Nobals (Noble Mission {GB}) had yet to return to that peak this season, but found the winner's enclosure again in the GII Kennedy Road Stakes Saturday evening at Woodbine. A 10-time winner in his career, most [...]

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Liam's Map Firster Game on Debut at Laurel

7th-Laurel, $48,305, Msw, 11-16, 2yo, 6f, 1:11.43, ft, 1 length. YARA'S QUEST (c, 2, Liam's Map–Yara {GSW, $398,390}, by Put It Back), given a 4-1 chance in this debut run, was hustled to the front from his inside draw and raced under pressure through an opening quarter in :22.64. Overtaken approaching the quarter pole and [...]

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Guns Loaded Fires Back At Second Asking To Be 'Rising Star' At Churchill

Guns Loaded (Gun Runner), second behind GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity and GIII Street Sense Stakes fourth Dapper Moon (Malibu Moon) at Saratoga in August, fired back Saturday to become a new 'TDN Rising Star' at Churchill Downs. The 3-1 shot, who shortened from seven furlongs to six here for trainer Jose D'Angelo in his second [...]

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Cool Intentions Looks The 'Real' Deal In Gulfstream Graduation

4th-Gulfstream, $40,000, Msw, 11-16, 2yo, 1m, 1:39.74, ft, 4 lengths. COOL INTENTIONS (c, 2, Authentic–Intentional Cry, by Street Cry {Ire}) was sent off as the 13-10 chalk to improve for a debut second going six furlongs of the Gulfstream main track Oct. 19 and ran away from his rivals in the final sixteenth of a [...]

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'Rising Star' Shoot It True Beats The Boys In The Notebook

Named a 'TDN Rising Star' for her 7 1/2-length romp at Keeneland in April, Shoot It True then took on the boys as the heavy favorite in the Kentucky Juvenile Stakes at Churchill Downs May 2 but weakened off the lead after fast fractions to finish fourth behind another classy filly in West Memorial (Caracaro). [...]

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