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| Aqueduct cancels Saturday card (AP) |
| March 13, 3:49 AM : rah |
Aqueduct has canceled the Saturday card in anticipation of high wind and heavy rain throughout the afternoon. The scheduled feature, the $100,000 Cicada Stakes, will be run March 20.
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| Slew's Tiznow beats favorite to win at Santa Anita (AP) |
| March 12, 19:00 PM : rah |
Slew's Tiznow ran down heavy favorite Aggie Engineer in the final yards to win the $56,000 allowance feature at Santa Anita on Friday. Aggie Engineer went straight to the front of the field of five as expected, but Slew's Tiznow and rider Garrett Gomez seized the lead in the final sixteenth and won by a half-length, covering one mile in 1:36.
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| Harness driver Brian Sears earns 7,000th win (AP) |
| March 12, 18:21 PM : rah |
Harness driver Brian Sears has raced to his 7,000th victory. Sears reached the milestone in Friday's first race at the Meadowlands Racetrack when the 42-year-old driver guided trotter Muscles Marinara to an easy victory. Sears was harness racing's Driver of the Year in 2009. He surpassed $100 million in lifetime earnings, ranking him eighth on harness racing's career list.
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| Rachel & Zenyatta return to the races (AP) |
| March 12, 13:15 PM : rah |
The two leading ladies of American racing return to action Saturday, with 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra making her season debut in New Orleans and undefeated Zenyatta revisiting the scene of her Breeders' Cup triumph in California. If all goes well, the filly and the mare are scheduled to face each other for the first time on April 9 in the $5 million Apple Blossom Invitational at...
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| Kissa Melissa wins Big A feature (AP) |
| March 12, 11:42 AM : rah |
Kissa Melissa, the 6-5 favorite, won the $44,000 allowance feature at Aqueduct on Friday with a 2-length victory over Let's Fly Away. This was the second straight win for the 5-year-old. Ramon Dominguez, the Big A's leading rider, was aboard for trainer Mitchell Friedman in the race for fillies and mares.
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| Lookin At Lucky to make 2010 debut in Rebel (AP) |
| March 11, 16:28 PM : rah |
Lookin At Lucky won't be looking at much in Saturday's Rebel Stakes, and that's exactly how his trainer wants it. The Kentucky Derby hopeful will wear blinkers for the first time when he makes his 2010 debut in the second of Oaklawn Park's three big 3-year-old prep races. Lookin At Lucky headlines a seven-horse field for the Rebel in Hot Springs, Ark., which will be his first race...
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| NY gov drops support for Aqueduct racino group (AP) |
| March 11, 16:10 PM : rah |
Gov. David Paterson's administration dropped its support Thursday for a consortium chosen to build and operate up to 4,500 video slot machines at the Aqueduct racetrack, promising to further delay the 8-year-old plan to put a lucrative racino in Queens. The governor's office said in a terse statement that it wants a quick and transparent process to choose another operator after the state...
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| Meadowlands to reschedule 9 harness racing dates (AP) |
| March 11, 13:34 PM : rah |
Meadowlands Racetrack is rescheduling nine dates on its harness racing calendar for later this year. The track announced the move Thursday. While it did not give a reason for pushing back the dates, it is believed running them later will be more profitable. The track said it will not run on March 17, 21, 24, 28 and 31; April 11 and 18; Memorial Day (May 31); and Father's Day (June 20).
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| Zenyatta arrives at Santa Anita for season debut (AP) |
| March 11, 12:46 AM : rah |
Zenyatta has arrived at Santa Anita for final preparations ahead of her return to racing in the $250,000 Santa Margarita Handicap. She arrived Thursday morning by van from her home base across town at Hollywood Park. Undefeated in 14 career races, the 6-year-old mare was scheduled to walk in Santa Anita's paddock between races later in the day.
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| NY horse breeder convicted of animal cruelty (AP) |
| March 10, 11:59 AM : rah |
Prominent New York thoroughbred breeder and owner Ernie Paragallo was convicted Wednesday of mistreating dozens of malnourished horses on his Hudson Valley farm. A judge convicted Paragallo of 33 of 34 misdemeanor animal cruelty counts in a nonjury trial in Greene County. The 52-year-old Long Island resident was charged after state police and animal welfare investigators raided his farm in...
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