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Trainer Doug O'Neill returns to Baltimore as challenger in Triple Crown chase
The Baltimore SunDoug O’Neill is back in Baltimore, this year to spoil a Triple Crown instead of take the next step toward winning one. A year after bringing I’ll Have Another to Baltimore just two days after winning the Kentucky Derby, then frantically...Tags: Kentucky Derby, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Preakness Stakes, Triple Crown
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Kentucky Derby full of intrigue with Pletcher's pack, O'Neill's return
The Baltimore SunLast year's chase for the Triple Crown ended when trainer Doug O'Neill stepped to a microphone stand in a patch of fenced-in grass next to a barn near the Belmont Park track. Brushing back tears, he announced that a tendon injury would prevent I'll Have...Tags: Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs, Triple Crown, Rosie Napravnik, Rentals
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Maryland business helps top jockeys see their way clear
Not a lot has changed in the jockey goggle business since 1947, when Israel Kroop first stitched trim around a molded sheet of plastic, added two brass vents from a mattress, and attached a strip of elastic.
Kroop's design — a made-in-Maryland...Tags: Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, Triple Crown, Barbaro, U.S. Army
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Union Rags tracks down Paynter in final stretch to win Belmont Stakes
Elmont, NY – Paynter stayed where he was, a few feet off the rail, charging toward the finish. Everyone whose heart had been broken by Union Rags before must have had the same thought: he's not going to squeeze through. But then, delivering upon...
Tags: Kentucky Derby, Horse (animal), John R. Velazquez, Paynter (racehorse), Belmont Stakes
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Can I'll Have Another win Triple Crown? Opinions are mixed
Only 30 horses have made it to the Belmont Stakes with a chance to win the Triple Crown. Eleven have succeeded. This is whyI'll Have Another's quest to become the 12th at Belmont Park on June 9 will captivate a nation that long ago stopped paying...
Tags: Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs, Belmont Stakes, Preakness Stakes, Triple Crown
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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: Kentucky Derby, Global Warming, John R. Velazquez, Pimlico Race Course, Belmont Stakes
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Dullahan's connections relish spoiler role
To hear the connections of Dullahan tell it, they'll have no less than the spirits of the sport's greatest runners pushing their horse in Saturday's Belmont. "It's our job," said Jerry Crawford, leader of the colt's Iowa-based ownership team, when...
Tags: Kentucky Derby, Javier Castellano, Preakness Stakes, Triple Crown
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Jockey is perfect fit for I'll Have Another
– Now, he's the burgeoning star with a sly smile on his face and steady answer to every question, even as the weight of racing history should be pressing upon him. But when Glen Todd first met Mario Gutierrez six years ago, the owner and jockey...
Tags: Mike Smith, Kentucky Derby, Mexico City, Mexico, Belmont Stakes
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I'll Have Another heads to track early Friday as trainer tries to keep him relaxed
Not the beverage koozie. A couple of weeks that have been choked by distraction for Doug O'Neill and his Triple Crown contender I'll Have Another came to a head Friday when it was announced that "vendor error" had canceled a giveaway in the colt's...
Tags: Yankee Stadium, Triple Crown, Shamrock, Symbols and Symbolism
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Jockey Mario Gutierrez reflects on I'll Have Another
No one's life was changed more by I'll Have Another's Triple Crown chase than 25-year-old jockey Mario Gutierrez. While his winning form on the colt far from guarantees even that the jockey will get on great horses -- that side of the sport is very...
Tags: Kentucky Derby, Triple Crown
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Rosie Napravnik hoping to follow in idol's path at Belmont
Rosie Napravnik became the first woman ever to win the Kentucky Oaks five weeks ago. Today, the former Hereford student who began her career in Maryland can become the second woman to win the Belmont – or any Triple Crown race, for that matter...
Tags: Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, Triple Crown, Rosie Napravnik, Fair Grounds Corporation
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Scrutiny on Doug O'Neill proves horse racing needs reform
Belmont Park interrupts a string of seemingly endless stores, most of them tiny and old, a lot of them vacant. There are Taco Bells and Wendy’s, of course, but little sub shops and ethnic joints, too, run by people who care about the quality of...
Tags: Lasix (drug), Horse and Harness Racing, Punishment, Long Island, Preakness Stakes
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