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Breeders’ Cup: All Classic Horses Reportedly Healthy

The connections of the horses that ran in the Nov. 5 Breeders' Cup Classic report that all the horses came out of the race in good shape. Link: Breeders' Cup: All Classic Horses Reportedly Healthy ...
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Breeders’ Cup: Smith Gets Classic Redemption on Drosselmeyer

Drosselmeyer came flying down the center of the track to sweep past pacesetter Game On Dude just before the wire, winning the 2011 Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I) at odds of 14-1 Nov Continued here: Breeders' Cup: Smith Gets Classic Redemption on Drosselmeyer ...
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Life At Ten Incident Leads to New Veterinary Policies

In an effort to avoid another Life At Ten situation, the Breeders' Cup, Churchill Downs, and the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission (KHRC) have adopted new policies that will be in effect for this year's World Championships.... View original post here: Life At Ten Incident Leads to New Veterinary Policies ...
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Breeders’ Cup Participants to Support Retired Racehorses

Prominent Thoroughbred owners and trainers are stepping up to the plate to support New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program by pledging a percentage of their earnings from this year's Breeders' Cup World Championships, it was announced Oct. 13.... Continued here: Breeders' Cup Participants to Support Retired Racehorses ...
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Leading Thoroughbred Sire Awesome Again Has Colic Surgery

Awesome Again, the leading active sire of Breeders' Cup winners, is recuperating from colic surgery performed the morning of Sept. 13 at Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital, located in Lexington, Ky. ... Read the rest here: Leading Thoroughbred Sire Awesome Again Has Colic Surgery ...
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Champion Thoroughbred Beautiful Pleasure Dies

Beautiful Pleasure, voted the 1999 champion older female after winning the Breeders' Cup Distaff, has been euthanized in Kentucky because of complications from laminitis. Follow this link: Champion Thoroughbred Beautiful Pleasure Dies ...
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Breeders’ Cup: Tab in Life At Ten Case Exceeds $100,000

A probe into Life At Ten's performance in the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic, held Nov. 5 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., and subsequent hearings into whether chief steward John Veitch violated any racing rules has cost more than $100,000.... More: Breeders' Cup: Tab in Life At Ten Case Exceeds $100,000 ...
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Kentucky Derby Winner Go for Gin Heads to Hall of Champions

Go for Gin, the 1994 Kentucky Derby winner, has arrived in Lexington, Ky., to make his home in the Kentucky Horse Park's Hall of Champions alongside fellow Derby winner Funny Cide, two-time Breeders' Cup winner Da Hoss, and racing superstar Cigar.... View post: Kentucky Derby Winner Go for Gin Heads to...
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Groups React to Breeders’ Cup Drug Phase-Out

For the most part Thoroughbred racing industry organizations that have weighed in on the plan by Breeders' Cup to phase out race-day medication use in the World Championships beginning in 2012 have been supportive. ... Read more: Groups React to Breeders' Cup Drug Phase-Out ...
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Veitch, Veterinarians Testify in Life At Ten Case

The chief state steward overseeing racing in Kentucky and several veterinarians working at Churchill Downs during last fall's Breeders' Cup World Championships testified June 29 that they saw nothing out of the ordinary with Life At Ten prior to her ... See the original post: Veitch, Veterinarians Testify in Life...
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