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Five things to watch heading into Saturday's Belmont Stakes
The Baltimore SunWhen I'll Have Another narrowly dodged being clipped by a rider-less horse who had gotten loose on the Belmont Park track last week, he avoided the sort of complication nobody had been talking about. Who could worry about something like that when there...Tags: Belmont Stakes, Equestrian, Triple Crown, Kentucky Derby, Pimlico Race Course
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Retirement home determined for Rapid Redux
Rapid Redux, the Eclipse Award-winning claimer who set a North American record for consecutive victories at 22 in January, has a retirement home. The horse is now about to head for Old Friends near Lexington, Ky. Old Friends owner Michael Blowen said...
Tags: Arthritis
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Wheeling Island Hotel, Casino & Racetrack
This getaway provides guests with gaming, hotel accommodations, live entertainment and greyhound racing. Hours: 24 hours a day. Games to play: Guests can choose to play craps, roulette, blackjack or poker. Wheeling Island provides over 1,800 slot...Tags: Dog Racing, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Baltimore, Pimlico not worthy of the Triple Crown
My first visit to Pimlico Race Course for the 137th Preakness Stakes amazed me, but not in a good way. I don't understand how such a rundown horse racing establishment can actually be the second jewel of the prestigious Triple Crown. First of all, the...Tags: Triple Crown, Equestrian, Pimlico Race Course, Fibromyalgia, Arthritis
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Woodwards raised Triple Crown champions at their Bowie farm
My earliest recollection of the television that arrived in my family's Guilford Avenue home was the broadcast of the 1955 Preakness. We were all fixed on that black-and-white Sylvania mounted high on a wall. Nashua beat Swaps and went on to win the...Tags: Triple Crown, Equestrian, Artists, Arts, Walters Art Museum
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The next generation of horse racing stars is arriving now
The Baltimore SunHorse racing's center stage, the place where the industry's best jockeys and trainers reside, is getting crowded. Ramon Dominguez, John Velazquez and current No. 1 jockey Javier Castellano may not be ready to exit stage left. Trainers Todd Pletcher,...Tags: Joel Rosario, Triple Crown, Equestrian, Kentucky Derby, Martin Garcia
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Is this the year a Maryland-trained horse wins the Preakness again?
Deputed Testamony is 32-years-old. His dark brown coat is shaggy, and his biggest excitement is going into his paddock at Bonita Farm for three or four hours of grazing each day. He is a pensioner, an icon. The oldest living winner of a Triple Crown...
Tags: Pneumonia, Equestrian, Triple Crown, Kentucky Derby, Kevin Plank
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Michael Matz's Teeth of the Dog could surprise in Preakness after Union Rags' disappointing Derby
At the desk where he works through entries after all of his morning training sessions are through, Michael Matz keeps a photo leaning against the wall. In a walnut frame, it is slightly – and surprisingly – faded. The text below a horse in...
Tags: Triple Crown, Lasix (drug), Equestrian, Kentucky Derby, Julien Leparoux
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Rapid Redux is still retired, but his retirement home is still to be determined
On Thursday owner Robert Cole said Rapid Redux would not race again and trainer David Wells said he would be going to The Kentucky Horse Park. But there was a catch. The Horse Park is a big place. Wells misunderstood the actual location. "It was an...
Tags: Arthritis, Ankles
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Jeannine Edwards on covering the Preakness for ESPN
The Baltimore SunESPN’s Jeannine Edwards started her TV career as an in-track host at Pimlico and Laurel in the early 1990s. “It allowed me to learn television, because I came from a background of training horses and had no TV experience,” she says....Tags: ABC (tv network), Triple Crown, Equestrian, HBO (tv network), Television Industry
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The Pons brothers' Country Life Farm is thriving, thanks to a special horse
If you were among the millions who turned on their television May 5 to watch the Kentucky Derby, or were one of the thousands lucky enough to be at Churchill Downs racetrack the previous day for the Kentucky Oaks, you would have seen two horses in the...
Tags: Loyola University Maryland, Belmont Stakes, University of Virginia, Triple Crown, Equestrian
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Turn to Team NBC for most complete Preakness TV coverage
The Baltimore SunLast year, 8.8 million viewers saw NBC’s coverage of the Preakness. That’s the kind of big-tent mass audience that makes the race one of Baltimore’s showcase events. And that doesn’t count the hundreds of thousands who will watch...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Triple Crown, Equestrian, Kentucky Derby, Randy Moss
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