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Shadwell Stable’s Daaher, winner of last year’s Cigar Mile Handicap (gr. I) and most recently finished third in Aqueduct’s Stymie Handicap on March 1, has been retired from racing due to “torn and injured ligaments in his right front ankle”. He retires with 4 wins and 2 thirds from 9 starts.
Daaher will enter stud for the 2008 season at Shadwell’s Nashwan Stud, the stallion division of Shadwell Farm, in Lexington, Kentucky.
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By GREG MELIKOV
There are so many Breeders’ Cup races this weekend I didn’t know where to start. I began handicapping last week to get a jump on the 11 races spread over two days beginning Friday at Monmouth Park.
Ah, then the changes began: injuries, withdrawals, switching races, etc. It’s not easy being a horseplayer in the fall when the Breeders’ Cup rolls around.
I’ve had some pretty awful years handicapping the event. Several years ago I suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune, selecting only one of eight winners.
My best year came in 1999 when I covered the Breeders’ Cup at Gulfstream Park in South Florida, my old stomping grounds. I had several winners, a couple of exactas and a trifecta.
That was then and this is now. So I’m going to concentrate on what I consider the two most competitive races.
There are some so wide open you better hope Lady Luck is in your corner. For instance, the inaugural Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at a mile on Friday had the most pre-entries that included four 2-year-olds that never ran on the grass and seven that had three or fewer outings.
I liked Old Man Buck because of his two wins on the grass. But trainer Ken McPeek opted for the Juvenile even though the son of Hold That Tiger ran sixth in his only trip on dirt.
The three top horses, all with turf experience, appear to be…
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The 2007 Breeder’s Cup World Thoroughbred Championships is on October 26-27.
However, with the latest horse racing warfare merely a few weeks away, it seems there are quite a few horses who will miss horse racing’s biggest event yet.
The 2007 Breeder’s Cup World Thoroughbred Championships will be at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey to […]
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2005 Kentucky Derby winner, Giacomo, has been retired to Frank Stronach’s Adena Springs Farm near Midway, Ky. The 4-year-old son of Holy Bull will stand for a live foal fee of $12,500.
Owned by Jerry and Anne Moss and trained by John Shirreffs, Giacomo won three of 16 career starts, with two seconds, and five third-place finishes while earning $2,537,316.
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Owners of Breeders Cup Classic runner-up and champion 3-year-old Bernardini announced his retirement two days after finishing second in the $5 million race, the was retired Monday and will stand at stud at Sheik Mohammed’s DarleyFarm.
Bernardini was the leading Horse of the Year contender entering the Classic at Churchill Downs as heavy favoriteand fresh from a six straight win including the Preakness, the Travers and the Jockey Club Gold Cup.
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Grade I winner Borrego will enter stud in 2007 at Wintergreen Stallion Station near Midway, Ky., and will stand for $20,000 live foal.
Meanwhile, Man o’ War Stakes (gr. IT) at Belmont Park winner, Cacique, will enter stud in 2007 at Khalid Abdullah’s Banstead Manor Stud near Newmarket, England.
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The $500,000 Woodward Stakes (gr. I) Saturday at Saratoga could turn out to be the most crucial start of the year for 2005 Travers (gr. I) champion Flower Alley, the race is just a week after the 4-year-old’s breeder was killed in the crash of a Comair jet in Kentucky.
Flower Alley’s owner, Eugene Melnyk, is dedicating the race to breeder George Brunacini, who was among the 49 people who died in Sunday’s crash at the airport in Lexington, Ky. Jockey John Velazquez will wear a black band on his pants when he rides Flower Alley.
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