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08/07/2014

John’s Call Quotes

Rosie Napravnik, winning jockey aboard Tricky Hat (No. 1): "I was planning my move on the backside and I looked back and I could see that Edgar [Prado, aboard Holiday Star] had me blocked pretty good. There's no getting out on Edgar, so I said 'I'm just g

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08/07/2014

Mrs. Ogden Phipps Hurdle Stakes Quotes

"Bernie [Dalton] gave her a great ride, saved ground. She normally doesn't like to be on the inside. I was a little concerned because she's normally a [mare] who likes to come running from the outside. She was jumping really well and the opportunity came

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08/07/2014

Saratoga Race Course Notes: Thursday, August 7

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas said Champion Three-Year-Old Male Will Take Charge came out of his third-place finish well in the Whitney and is now being pointed toward the Grade 1, $600,000 Woodward at 1 1/8 miles on August

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08/06/2014

Saratoga Race Course Notes: Wednesday, August 6

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Debut wins are seldom as impressive as the aptly named Wonder Gal's. The daughter of Tiz Wonderful, making her first career start in the six-furlong Lynbrook Stakes for New York-breds, lagged eight lengths behind the early pace af

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08/05/2014

NYSS Statue of Liberty Division Quotes

"I think last time - seven-eighths, one turn - I probably can't train a one-turn horse, and they went seven-eighths in 1:20 4/5 seconds. [Lady Kreesa and Funky Munky Fever] ran a really good race last time, and I was disappointed with the way [Selenite] r

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08/04/2014

Saratoga Race Course Notes: Monday, August 4

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Jess's Dream, clearly recovered from his 24-hour van ride the day before from Ocala, Fla. had his first experience on a real racetrack Monday morning, circling the Saratoga Race Course oval in an easy gallop under exercise rider R

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08/04/2014

NYSS Cab Calloway Division Quotes

Cornelio Velasquez, winning jockey aboard Mark My Way (No. 7): "He was in the best position; he stayed in the clear all the way. I went away at the eighth pole when I asked. I had a lot of horse. He's a good horse. He tries hard."

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08/03/2014

Fasig-Tipton Waya Quotes

"She ran in the long race [a 1 ½-mile turf allowance on June 22] at Belmont. She had broken her maiden and she came back and won nicely in the non-winners of two. But to be honest, those long, marathon races down there don't have really strong competitio

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08/03/2014

Elisabeth Jerkens, wife of Hall of Famer H. Allen Jerkens, dies at 86

The cause of death was heart failure. Jerkens campaigned her horses as Hardwicke Stables. Among her homebreds were the stakes winning filly Becky's Flute, and multiple stakes winner Spite the Devil, a son of Devil His Due, who was trained by her husband

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08/03/2014

Saratoga Race Course Notes: Sunday, August 3

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Grade 1, $1.5 million Whitney hero Moreno was sprightly Sunday morning, bouncing around in his stall a day after taking the field gate to wire in one of the most prestigious races of the Saratoga meet. Moreno's landmark victory wa

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