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Celebrity Pedigrees Don’t Guarantee Successful Breeding There is some science to the horse breeding business. But art, or at least gut instinct, drives decisions about which mare gets a brief encounter with which stallion.

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Robby Albarado Joins 4,000-Win Club Robby Albarado became the 56th North American jockey to reach the 4,000-victory milestone when he rode Barbara Hunter’s Keertana to victory in the ninth race at Churchill Downs on May 30.

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Belmont Park receives NTRA safety accreditation (AP) Belmont Park has received safety certification from a newly formed consortium a week before running its signature event the Belmont Stakes. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association said on Friday that the racetrack has been fully accredited by its Safety and Integrity Alliance […]

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Zensational wins Hollywood Park feature (AP)

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Coral sign new four-year deal for Welsh National CORAL bookmakers have extended their sponsorship of the £100,000 Welsh National at Chepstow. The new four-year deal takes its support of the staying handicap chase up to the end of 2012 –…

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Borel will ride in Belmont, but who still unclear Chip Woolley, who trains the Derby winner, made that clear Thursday. He said he'll wait until Rachel Alexandra's co-owner Jess Jackson decides whether to run his Preakness-winning filly in the Belmont…

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Many Capable in Contentious Dogwood Like her other five rivals, Marylou Whitney’s Tweeter never had a chance when super filly Rachel Alexandra rolled to a record-setting 20 1/4-length victory in the Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) May 1 at Churchill Downs. Tweeter, who finished 51 lengths back of the winner, should be more evenly matched this […]

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Dogwood Names Mine That Bird’s Brother Dogwood Stable, which paid $485,000 for Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird’s half-brother by Yonaguska at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-old sale, has named the colt Brother Bird.

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Gozzip Girl returns to turf for Sands Point Stakes Ed DeRosa Gozzip Girl will have had eight weeks rest since coming up a neck short to Hooh Why in the Ashland Stakes (G1) on Polytrack at Keeneland Race Course when she goes postward and returns to tu…

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Fellow finalist believes he can overcome Susan Boyle in talent stakes on because anything can happen. Any of tonight's acts, such as Stavros Flatley, could come out and give the performance of their lives and all of sudden they could be the favourites," he said.Asked wh…

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