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Millionaires Meet in PIM Special
May 13, 2015 Last year, I had the honour of covering the Grade III PIM Special as part of a huge PRK weekend program and vouched for the fact that, although it does not attract the same caliber of horse… Read More ›
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Unproven Turf Talent Seeks Wait A While Victory
May 14, 2015 Named for a multiple Grade I winner and Champion Three-Year-Old Filly, the Wait A While at BEL serves as a big stepping stone for the sophomores fillies on the grass, especially as the distances increase, and has… Read More ›
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Google Maps Clearly the Choice in Black-Eyed Susan
May 11, 2015 After taking a one-year hiatus, the Grade II Black-Eyed Susan Stakes returns to PIM with a reduced $250.000 purse and no one from the Grade I KY Oaks field but in their place, a field of six… Read More ›
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Years Go Bye Up in Time to Claim Vanity
May 11, 2015 The Grade I Vanity Stakes was expected to be a showdown between former CCA Oaks winner Devil Wears Prada and former Alabama winner Chili King but someone forgot to tell Grade II turf winner Years Go Bye… Read More ›
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Devil Wears Prada Well Dressed For Victory in Vanity
May 5, 2015 There are a series of stakes races in Southern California for the older fillies and mares that have come to mark the right of passage for the upper echelons of dirt racing and the Grade I Vanity… Read More ›
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Girl Talk Is All Action in Honeymoon Stakes Triumph
May 4, 2015 While the three-year-old fillies on the dirt were in the spotlight on Friday in the KY Oaks, fillies on the turf were featured on Sunday at SA in the Grade II Honeymoon Stakes and coming off a… Read More ›
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KY Oaks Is One For The Ages
May 3, 2015 All of the pre-race hype for this past weekend surrounded the Grade I KYD but on Friday afternoon, the best fillies in the land took to the CD oval for the Grade I KY Oaks and the… Read More ›
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Power And Money Has Power And Gets The Money In Gold Fever
May 1, 2015 The Gold Fever at BEL was a chance for three-year-old sprinters to stretch their legs before some of the more lucrative stakes races at BEL and SAR come to pass and Power And Money used a drop… Read More ›
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No Stopping The Man In Gold Fever
April 30, 2015 Named for a former winner of the Grade I NYRA Mile, now called the Cigar Mile, the Gold Fever has been added to the calendar at BEL as a prep for the Grade II Stephens on BEL… Read More ›
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A Star Will Arise In Competitive KY Oaks
April 28, 2015 It is one of the longest standing and most prestigious races in the United States and as such, attracts the best of the best from around the country to compete. It has been held since 1875 and… Read More ›
