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Authentic goes wire-to-wire to capture BC Classic
Authentic, the Kentucky Derby champion and Preakness runner-up, won a 2ΒΌ-length victory over Improbable at the Breeders' Cup Classic.
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Derby winner Authentic wins Horse of the Year
Authentic, who won this year's Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic, received 224 of 238 first-place votes to win Horse of the Year honors at the Eclipse Awards on Thursday night.
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Knicks Go easily wins $3M Pegasus World Cup
Knicks Go went wire-to-wire to easily defeat the other 11 runners in Saturday's $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational at Gulfstream Park.
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Justify's Santa Anita Derby win upheld by CHRB
Justify's win in the 2018 Santa Anita Derby will stand after the California Horse Racing Board voted Friday to let stand a decision by stewards at Santa Anita last month.
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Headley, longtime trainer with 902 wins, dies
Santa Anita officials said Bruce Headley, the famed thoroughbred trainer, died at an Arcadia hospital from the effects of a stroke. He was 86.
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Golden Gate Fields to open after virus outbreak
Golden Gate Fields will resume live racing on Jan. 15 after being closed for over a month due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
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Oaklawn Park to welcome limited attendance
Oaklawn Park in Arkansas plans to allow limited fans during its winter-spring horse racing meet that runs Jan. 22-May 1.
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Belmont winner Tiz the Law retired on vet's advice
Belmont Stakes winner Tiz the Law has been suddenly retired on the advice of a veterinarian after an X-ray revealed bone bruising in the colt's front leg.
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2-year-old colt fatally hurt in race at Santa Anita
A 2-year-old colt racing in the $80,150 Eddie Logan Stakes at Santa Anita was fatally injured Sunday, becoming the Southern California track's first fatality since June.
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Charlatan claims Grade 1 win in Malibu Stakes
Charlatan tracked favorite Nashville to the quarter pole and then drew off to a 4 1/2-length victory in the $300,000 Malibu Stakes on Santa Anita's opening day.
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Champion British jockey handed 3-month ban
Oisin Murphy, the champion jockey of British horse racing was banned from riding for three months on Friday following a positive test for cocaine.
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Flanery retiring as president of Churchill Downs
Kevin Flanery, who has been Churchill Downs' president since July 2009, will retire at the end of this year, the track announced Wednesday.
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Jockey Rosario notches 3,000th career win
Jockey Joel Rosario earned his 3,000th career victory in a race at Aqueduct in New York.
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Authentic's Breeders' Cup track record updated
Authentic's track-record time in the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland has been updated to 1:59.60 after a review of multiple sources and camera angles.
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DQ'd Derby winner Maximum Security retired
Maximum Security, disqualified after crossing the finish line first in the 2019 Kentucky Derby, has been retired to stud.
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Authentic retired after Breeders' Cup Classic win
Authentic, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Breeders' Cup Classic, will stand at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, next year for a breeding fee of $75,000.
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Order of Australia wins Breeders' Cup Mile at 73-1
Order of Australia, a 73-1 longshot who was in the race following a scratch and with a substitute rider aboard, won the $2 million Breeders' Cup Mile on Saturday.
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Absolutely Aiden euthanized after suffering injury
Absolutely Aiden has been euthanized following an injury suffered in a chain-reaction incident that toppled several riders about 200 yards short of the finish in the $150,000 Lafayette Stakes on Saturday.
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