Sentences with phrase «stakes races in»

'55 grass champion St. Vincent, and Four and Twenty, winner of several stakes races in 1961 and» 62.

HORSE RACING — BILL SHOEMAKER, hopping from coast to coast, won three stakes races in three days and then, after a day off, took the Santa Anita Handicap.

Says LeRoy Jolley, trainer of 1980 Kentucky Derby - winning filly Genuine Risk, «The difference between the two sexes as far as horse racing goes is that a filly only has to win one major stakes race in her life [to demonstrate exceptional breeding potential], whereas a colt, to be valuable as a stallion, has to be a top - rated performer almost every race of his life.

Not exact matches

Horse trading MI Developments serves as an industrial landlord, but was spun out of Magna with a controversial stake in Magna Entertainment, a now - bankrupt horse - racing venture.

The race to claim stakes in the melting Arctic is heating up.

The stakes are also high for Republicans in Congress, where Republicans on Tuesday night watched their party peers in state and local races get ousted in a string of election defeats.

** Three global companies are in the race to buy a stake in leading Turkish health insurer Acibadem Sigorta, sources familiar with the matter said, underscoring appetite among international investors for the fast - growing sector.

But the race - neutral approach was not a smokescreen, since all of Milwaukee's inner - city churches and their members, regardless of race, have a practical stake in the economic condition of the core city.

The legend of The Tyrconnell ® was born in 1876, when R. M. Delamere entered his beautiful chestnut colt, Tyrconnell, in the 10th running of the prestigious National Produce Stakes Horse Race at The Curragh, considered Ireland's most important thoroughbred racecourse.

Bega pulled out of the WCB takeover race in December and its stake is likely to be the key in deciding who gets control of WCB.

He can give you a million reasons for wanting to race at a certain track, for pointing for a specific stake race or for wintering in a particular spot.

HARNESS RACING — Responding smartly to Driver Clint Hodgins» whip - flicking at head of stretch, Adios Butler whooshed past Meadow Al and Adios Oregon to win $ 110,994 Messenger Stake in track record (for 3 - year - old pacers) 2:00 1/5 at Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury, N.Y., plucked second jewel in pacing's triple crown.

HORSE RACING — DEARLY PRECIOUS ($ 4.20), Mike Hole riding, won the $ 105,205 Sorority Stakes for 2 - year - old fillies by 2 1/4 lengths over Optimistic Gal at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J..

With late trips to Tuscaloosa and Oxford, they will probably lose ground in the race later, and they need to stake their claim to a gaudy win total now.

The tiny bay spitfire took the $ 115,281 classic in straight heats, smashed the stakes record and equaled Speedy Scot's world record race time of 1:56 [4/5].

Orb won his first race two days after Thanksgiving at Aqueduct and then won his first race of 2013 in a 11 / 8 - mile stake on Jan. 13 at Florida's Gulfstream Park, winter home for some of McGaughey's horses.

Rosario, 28, who is from the Dominican Republic and is one of the hottest riders in the U.S., and his agent, Ron Anderson, were told by McGaughey that Orb might skip the Feb. 23 Fountain of Youth Stakes, a Derby prep race.

Assuming neither of the horses is scratched, ESPN will air SportsCenter from Saratoga on the morning of the race as well as a three - hour SportsCenter from there starting at 5 p.m. ESPN had slotted one hour for the Travers but expanded its coverage after the Belmont Stakes, which drew 24 million viewers on NBC — the highest - rated race in more than a decade.

HORSE RACING — California - bred GEORGE LEWIS ($ 5.60), ridden by Bill Hartack and owned by Alan Magerman of Philadelphia, won the six - furlong, $ 32,400 Hibiscus Stakes by a length over Insubordination in 1:09 [1/5].

• The inaugural meeting was held in 1925 at Jamaica Race Course (N.Y.), where the stakes was run until 1960, when Jamaica was torn down and the Wood went to Aqueduct.

But Gulch had raced twice in 1987, winning the seven - furlong Bay Shore Stakes at Aqueduct two weeks before, and he had the home - court advantage.

Though 13 horses went to the post, it was expected to be a three - way race among Slavic, an impressive Gulfstream allowance - race winner; Rhythm, last year's juvenile champion, whose 3 - year - old debut was a dismal seventh - place finish in the Feb. 10 Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream; and a son of Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew named Yonder, who made a strong stretch run in the Hutcheson to finish second.

Tabasco Cat had prepped splendidly for the Travers, but Holy Bull, who set the racing world drooling with blazing triumphs in the Florida Derby and the Blue Grass Stakes early in the year, had bowed out of the Triple Crown series after being left at the gate in the Derby and finishing 12th.

HORSE RACING — Ron Turcotte rode TOM ROLFE ($ 4.40) to an easy 2 3/4 - length victory over Isle of Greece in the $ 34,225 Chesapeake Stakes at Laurel.

Elsewhere on a brilliant day's racing, and the best bet at York looks to be the chances of the very exciting Convey in the BETFRED MOBILE STRENSALL STAKES (2:00).

Although marriage and the years have somewhat mellowed Se √ ± or, his racing public still looks to him for the miracles he provided in such fabulous seasons as the 1947 Saratoga meeting, when he had 17 winners in 30 races, including nine stakes.

In an interesting twist, Always Dreaming and Cloud Computing have decided to skip the Belmont Stakes and Classic Empire, who would have been the favorite among the remaining contenders, withdrew from the race due to a recurrent foot abscess.

Among the 11 entries as of Monday were Skip Away (right), vying to become the Classic's first repeat winner, racing's alltime cash cow (a victory would give him $ 10 million in earnings) and Horse of the Year; 1998 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Silver Charm; the last two Belmont Stakes victors, Victory Gallop and Touch Gold; Travers Stakes champ Coronado's Quest; and Swain, Europe's top horse.

Stakes: Ohio State is two wins from, at the very least, holding onto its top - ranked alternate title in the BCS title race.

At stake is the future character of harness racing in the U.S., for what happens in Pennsylvania is going to have a marked effect on the sport, one way or the other.

His next race may be the Woodward Stakes in New York in September or the richest handicap ever to be run in this country, the $ 350,000 National Thoroughbred Championship at Santa Anita on Nov. 1.

Hill Rise did not disappoint his owner in the Big «Cap, which is how race - happy Angelenos refer to the mile - and - a-quarter classic that was the first $ 100,000 stake in the U.S. when it was inaugurated exactly 30 years ago.

Secretariat had one of the greatest runs in horse racing history at the Belmont Stakes.

And, what's more, this was a Channel race with prize money at stake and Brojen was first in.

¬ ∂ Bedraggled spectatorsshuffled along, carrying racing programs from the 140th Belmont Stakes, inwhich history was supposed to be made but instead was simply reinforced.Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown had gone to the starting gate asthe shortest - priced favorite (1 — 4) since Spectacular Bid was 1 — 5 in 1979 andhad finished dead last in a field of nine, eased to an exhausted jog by jockeyKent Desormeaux with more than a quarter mile left in the 1 1/2 - mile race.

In the ninth race — the Grade 2 Churchill Downs Stakes — Private Zone got the victory, paying $ 7.40.

In the eighth race, Tepin led the one - mile Churchill Distaff Turf Mile Stakes with only a late challenge from a soon - to - fade Maid on a Mission en route to picking up a victory in the Grade 2 race for fillies and mares four years or oldeIn the eighth race, Tepin led the one - mile Churchill Distaff Turf Mile Stakes with only a late challenge from a soon - to - fade Maid on a Mission en route to picking up a victory in the Grade 2 race for fillies and mares four years or oldein the Grade 2 race for fillies and mares four years or older.

The Belmont Stakes undercard is full of races and story lines worth tuning in to watch before American Pharoah goes for a Triple Crown.

Run Dusty Run beat Royal Ski in the Arlington - Washington Futurity on Sept. 25, but neither Slew nor Run Dusty Run has raced farther than a mile, while Royal Ski has gone better than a mile in three stakes and won each time.

The stakes in racing are greater than ever, and so are the physical demands on racers — from massive g - forces and extreme temperatures to relentless sensory bombardment — spurring many drivers to rev up their fitness programs.

He certainly deserved the shot because he had won four stakes at four different racetracks, and in eight lifetime races had never run over the same track twice.

Unbridled did show promise as a baby, winning a stake at Calder Race Course and becoming a leading candidate for the Kentucky Derby off his four - length triumph under jockey Pat Day in the Florida Derby on March 17.

Arazi had already won three Grade I stakes in France — he was, by consensus, the finest juvenile to race in Europe in at least a decade — when the colt's American co-owner, Allen Paulson, took a high - risk adventure by sending him to Louisville to meet America's best juveniles.

As three - year - old horses jockey, so to speak, for position to make the field in next month's Kentucky Derby, one of the races many will be keeping their eye on will be Saturday's Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct.

Caixa Electronica, at 4/1 odds, took home the six - furlong True North Handicap, the seventh race of the day in the buildup to the Belmont Stakes.

HORSE RACING — Kentucky - bred WILLOWICK ($ 26.60) ran the 1 «⅛ - mile feature in 1:48 [4/5] for an upset victory in the $ 67,600 San Fernando Stakes for 4 - year - olds at Santa Anita, Calif..

In the Daily Racing Form's Preakness Stakes edition, not one of the Form's five chief handicappers picked Snow Chief to finish in the moneIn the Daily Racing Form's Preakness Stakes edition, not one of the Form's five chief handicappers picked Snow Chief to finish in the monein the money.

There is no margin for error in the race for the title at the moment which is why every dropped point is like a stake to the heart.

HORSE RACING — Under an impressive ride by Sandy Hawley, MAJESTIC LIGHT ($ 5.80) won the $ 113,100 Man o'War Stakes, covering the mile and a half turf course in 2:27 [3/5].

The Hornets are now set to return to the scene of the crime tomorrow, and with Arsenal continued participation in the title race at stake, the Spaniard is worried about the Gunners players reaction.