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09-19-2007, 08:23 PM
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$150,000 Cliff Hanger Stakes (gr. IIIT, Race 9, 10:41 p.m.), 3 & Up, 1 1/16 Miles (Turf) PP. Horse, Weight, Jockey 1. Touched by Madness (FL), 117, Stewart Elliott 2. Presious Passion (FL), 117, Alan Garcia 3. Silver Tree (FL), 123, Kent J. Desormeaux 4. Heat of the Night (SAF), 117, Christopher P. DeCarlo 5. Tune of the Spirit (FL), 117, Charles C. Lopez 6. Carnera (KY), 119, Jose Lezcano 7. Fishy Advice (KY), 117, Javier Castellano 8. Jungle Fighter (ON), 119, Horacio Karamanos 9. Baron Von Tap (KY), 119, Rajiv Maragh
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#243
09-20-2007, 12:23 PM
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09-20-2007, 01:16 PM
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Yeah it is nice to have good news and I agree about posting stuff here..... there are a few i still haven't posted about as i could never confirm it. It's just me but i always wait till it's either in an article or something or till i hear it from 3 different people.
Never thought you didn't have favorites Da Hoss.
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#245
09-20-2007, 06:02 PM
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"Change can be good, but constant change shows no direction" http://www.hickoryhillhoff.blogspot.com/
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#246
09-21-2007, 09:45 AM
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#247
09-24-2007, 01:36 PM
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Latin Rhythms, El Cajon winner, only three years old.
A bright future awaited..... such a shame. He is missed. Rest in peace, good boy.
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#248
09-24-2007, 08:00 PM
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From DRF. Rest in peace.
Drill Down suffers fatal breakdown By BRAD FREE ARCADIA, Calif. – The first fatal breakdown on Cushion Track at Santa Anita occurred Monday morning when the top 2-year-old colt Drill Down shattered his left cannon bone at the quarter pole and later was euthanized. Drill Down was working seven furlongs soon after 8 a.m. After passing the quarter pole, he broke down without warning and sent jockey Michael Baze tumbling to the ground. The bone penetrated the skin on Drill Down's left leg. "There was no way we could save him," shaken trainer Mike Machowsky said. "You don't expect it to end like this. You expect it to end with a few nice wins to his career. I am shell-shocked; this horse never missed a beat." Baze, who was not seriously hurt, said he sensed nothing wrong the first part of the work. "He was real relaxed," Baze said. "He just took a bad step at the quarter pole." Drill Down raced three times for William and Suzanne Warren, who owned the late Breeders' Cup Classic winner Saint Liam. Drill Down scored an impressive maiden win in his second start July 28 at Del Mar and started as the 2-1 favorite Sept. 5 in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity. He finished a troubled third in that seven-furlong race, and would have been one of the favorites Sunday in the Grade 1 Norfolk Stakes. The Norfolk is one of three graded stakes on the new Cushion Track surface this weekend at the Oak Tree meet at Santa Anita, which opens Wednesday. The synthetic surface received much praise the first three weeks of training, but according to some horsemen the surface became inconsistent after weekend rain. Several trainers postponed works Monday or canceled them entirely due to what they perceived to be an uneven surface. Machowsky changed Drill Down's work day from Sunday to Monday to allow the track a chance to dry out. He did not blame the surface for the breakdown. "You're always hearing things about the racetrack, but I can't say the track is bad," Machowsky said. "It's just one of those things, and it's a tough one to choke down." Cushion Track is billed as an all-weather surface, but when Magna track-surface consultant Ted Malloy was asked how the surface handled the approximate half-inch of weekend rain, he answered, "Not very well." Malloy said it will improve with revised maintenance procedures. Santa Anita in summer replaced its dirt surface with Cushion Track, a mix of silica sand, synthetic fibers, elastic fibers, and shredded rubber, all coated in wax. The surface apparently was in good shape in dry weather, but did not drain properly when the rains came. Malloy said that according to Cushion Track representatives, the bottom of the track became too tightly packed for water to seep through. The track is designed for water to seep through the base, where it drains away. As a result, and because of the type of waxed used, the first rain of the season last week was unable to penetrate. Malloy said deep renovation to the track and heavy watering once a week would allow the material to become more able to take rain. Santa Anita vice president and general manager George Haines said: "We're doing everything we can to make this the safest track possible. Obviously we are concerned. Now that we have the track, we have to get the maintenance right." Trainer Jack Carava had several main-track workouts scheduled for Monday morning, but made a last-minute decision to move his works to the dirt training track. "It just didn't feel right," he said about the Cushion Track. "I know what they had to do [Sunday] to this track to get it to dry out." The track was deep-harrowed on Sunday in an effort to speed the drying process, and Malloy said it will continue to be harrowed every Monday. Darrell Vienna is another trainer who will take a cautious approach regarding the new surface. "It's a work in progress, and I think they haven't got the point where they have it right yet," he said. Vienna will work horses on the training track instead. Despite losing the best horse in his stable, Machowsky remains a believer in the synthetic surfaces. "I know that racing is trying to do what's best for the horses and the safety of the riders," he said. "I support that." He said Drill Down, purchased for $350,000 in a 2-year-olds in training sale, was not insured. * * * Latin Rhythms suffers fatal injury at Hollywood By STEVE ANDERSEN Latin Rhythms, the winner of the El Cajon Stakes at Del Mar in August, was euthanized on Sunday after suffering a sesamoid injury at the end of a workout at Hollywood Park, trainer Ron Ellis said. Latin Rhythms was being prepared for a start in the $500,000 Indiana Derby at Hoosier Park on Oct. 6. "He was working a mile," Ellis said. "It happened inside the eighth pole." Owned by Mace and Samantha Siegel, Latin Rhythms won his first stakes in the El Cajon. He was considered one of the more promising late-developing 3-year-olds in California, having won 3 of 5 starts and $152,240 this year. Ellis said that Buzzards Bay, the winner of the Grade 2 Californian Stakes at Hollywood Park in June, is out of contention for the $1 million Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile at Monmouth Park on Oct. 26 after missing training time in recent weeks because of illness. A winner of 6 of 19 starts and $1,325,607, Buzzards Bay was scratched from the Windy Sands Handicap at Del Mar on Sept. 3 after "his blood was off," Ellis said. Earlier this year, Ellis had considered starting Buzzards Bay in Saturday's $500,000 Goodwood Stakes at the Oak Tree at Santa Anita meeting as a prep to a Breeders' Cup race. "His blood is back to normal," Ellis said. "He's not Breeders' Cup eligible so he would have had to have been supplemented." Ellis said that Buzzards Bay will be considered for the $500,000 Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs on Nov. 23, with a possible prep race in advance.
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#249
09-24-2007, 08:12 PM
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So much for these polytracks........the racing surface isn't why these horses are breaking down!
Too much, too soon...too many drugs...for such fragile animals. When will we learn???
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#250
09-28-2007, 07:26 PM
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Go Go Turko, 3 years old, at Santa Anita this morning.
Rest in peace.
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#251
10-02-2007, 11:54 PM
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Gumshoe, ten years old, died trying today at Suffolk.
Rest in peace.
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#252
10-03-2007, 07:33 PM
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Shattered Dreams, 3 years old, on Sunday.
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10-03-2007, 11:29 PM
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Sure Speed, today at Santa Anita.
She was 3.
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10-04-2007, 02:10 PM
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Secretariat
Today is the 18th anniversary of his death.
RIP
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#255
10-05-2007, 02:07 AM
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Appealing Mystery, (race 1 at Belmont today)...
Run in peace.
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10-07-2007, 03:22 AM
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Bregawn, winner of the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup...
Dream of Angels and Gold Train, today at keeneland..... Rest in peace.
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#257
10-08-2007, 07:14 PM
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Irish Ace, 3 years old, after finishing 4th today at Belmont.
Run in peace.
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#258
10-08-2007, 09:21 PM
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Farewell to a legend.....
Goodnight, John Henry. http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17245 Last edited by my miss storm cat : 10-10-2007 at 02:25 AM.
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10-10-2007, 02:24 AM
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Halmahera put down after a second attack of colic
by Graham Green . KEVIN RYAN paid tribute to Halmahera on Tuesday after his three-time Portland Handicap winner had to be put down after suffering a second attack of colic. The death has saddened the Ryan family, who kept the 12-year-old as a pet since his retirement from racing two seasons ago, and in particular the trainer's daughter, Amy, 18, who has been showjumping him. Halmahera won nine of his 101 races, and was placedon another 20 occasions, but will be best remembered for his hat-trick of triumphs in the Doncaster cavalry charge between 2002-2004 when carrying the colours of John Duddy and Gillian Quinn, wife of ex-footballer Niall Quinn, now the Sunderland chairman. Halmahera's successes also included two victories at Ascot, including the 1997 Cornwallis Stakes when trained by Ian Balding, and a Listed event at Newcastle. He earned more than £300,000 in prize-money. Ryan said: “I bought him as a six-year-old at the Horses In Training Sale, out of Mr Balding's, and there was something about Doncaster that made him a stone better horse there. Winning three Portlands in a row was a great feat, and he was just a wonderful horse to train, so uncomplicated. “My daughter has been looking after him since he retired, and she has been taking him showjumping, and he has had a great life really. It is sad it had to end this way. He got colic and we thought he was coming through it okay, but then he got a second attack of it and he was very uncomfortable, and on veterinary advice the most humane thing was to put him to sleep.” - Racing Post Rest in peace.
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#260
10-15-2007, 08:42 PM
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Mariotto, a 3yo Godolphin boy.
Fly with the angels. * * * Slew O' Gold... http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17401 * * * Silver Buck..... http://breeding.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=41371 * * * The cruelty of man. Jump in peace, Cieszymir Sixteen takes Velka honours Ferdy Murphy's Ivoire de Beaulieu finished a gallant fourth under Keith Mercer behind local hope Sixteen in the Velka Pardubicka in the Czech Republic. In an eventful race in which dual winner Maskul departed at the dreaded Taxis, the Ivoire de Beaulieu team unsuccessfully objected to third-placed Eliska Premyslovna for interference in the home straight. Murphy, who watched the race from the centre of the course, was delighted with his 11-year-old. 'He was going well for most of the trip but Keith thinks he maybe got into contention sooner than was ideal,' said the North Yorkshire-based trainer. Mercer, having his second ride in the four-and-a-half-mile marathon, added: 'He gave me a super ride. I was going ever so well five out but he took me there too soon and didn't quite get the trip.' Sixteen, a seven-year-old grey mare, was ridden by veteran jockey Dusan Andres to storm home by five lengths after taking the measure of last year's winner Decent Fellow, a stablemate and one of three runners trainer Josef Vana had in the race. Irish interest in the contest disappeared when the John Carr-trained Three Mill fell at the third water jump while Sybellius D'Artaix, trained by Murphy's son Paul, completed the gruelling course. There was a tragic side to the jumping of the Taxis with its 17-foot ditch when Cieszymir fell, broke his near fore, and had to be destroyed. Velka Day is the Czech equivalent of the Cheltenham Festival squeezed into one day's racing and Princess Anne paid her first visit to present the trophy to the connections of Sixteen. Murphy is getting closer to winning the race and vowed to return next year with a runner.
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We always knew ya did, have favs that is. Surprised to see you in here, worried you were posting about the top predator.
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