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Jockey Injured, 2 Horses Euthanized at Oaklawn Park

A collision at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas injured a jockey and forced officials to euthanize two horses.

Oaklawn Park officials said Monday’s collision injured 54-year-old jockey Tim Doocy, who was scheduled for surgery after an early diagnosis indicated fractures to his ankle, knee and hand.

Doocy was aboard The ATM, a maiden two-year-old Trippi colt, when the horse collided with a pony ridden by outrider Chisum Ewing. The accident occurred as Doocy’s mount was pulling up from a 3-furlong workout. Ewing was not injured.

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Santa Anita Park To Honor Breeders’ Cup Classic Winner Zenyatta With A Grade 1 Race

Undefeated Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Zenyatta is getting the Grade 1 race she won twice at Santa Anita Park renamed in her honor.

Santa Anita Track officials said Tuesday that the Lady’s Secret will be renamed The Zenyatta beginning next fall. The race is for fillies and mares ages 3 and up run at 1 1/16 miles.

Zenyatta won the race the last two years. She capped her 14-0 career by beating the boys in the $5-million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita on Nov. 7.

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Gulfstream Park Plays Musical Stakes in 2010

By GREG MELIKOV

Gulfstream Park played musical stakes six weeks before its 68th season opens on Sunday, Jan. 3. It involves the much-heralded Run for the Roses.

Back in August, track officials announced the stakes schedule, which had the 59th Florida Derby tabbed for March 27, five Saturdays before the Kentucky Derby. But in November it was moved back to March 20, most likely to avoid conflicting with another traditional Derby prep, the Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds.

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Historic Hialeah Park Backing Into the Future

By GREG MELIKOV

Hialeah Park, 84 years after its debut in the Roaring ’20s, is back from the dead and on track to hold the first of two meetings 48 hours after Thanksgiving.

It has been eight years since the last thoroughbred race was staged at the historic South Florida landmark. At one time Hialeah was known as “the most beautiful racetrack in the world” because of its grand architecture, fountains and statues besides exotic scenery and a magnificent turf course.

While the facility is a shell of itself today, scores of construction workers are laboring…

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2010 Breeders’ Cup Logo Revealed

The Breeders’ Cup and Churchill Downs revealed the official event logo for the 2010 Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Churchill Downs on November 5-6, 2010. Breeders’ Cup 2010 will mark a record seventh time that Churchill Downs will host the event.

The 2009 Breeders’ Cup World Championships will be held at the Oak Tree Racing Meet at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif. and consists of 14 Breeders’ Cup races and $25.5 million in purses on Friday, November 6 and Saturday, November 7.

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Oak Tree at Santa Anita Park To Cut Purses By 10%

A downturn in horse wagering as a result of the sluggish economy is forcing Santa Anita Park to slash its overnight purses by 10% at the Oak Tree meeting to take effect Saturday.

Santa Anita Track officials said Wednesday that through the first 16 days of horse racing, Oak Tree’s overall pari-mutuel wagering was down 12% compared to last year.

The meeting began September 30 and runs through November 8, including the Breeders’ Cup 2009 World Championships on November 6-7, the two richest days in thoroughbred horse racing.

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Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame to Induct 5

By GREG MELIKOV

Five new honorees will be inducted into the Texas Horse Racing Hall of Fame on Saturday at Retama Park.

The new members are racing legends Harold V. Goodman and Jeff Carr, plus three horses. In addition, former Texas Sen. O. H. “Ike” Carr of Dallas will receive the JoAnn Weber Distinguished Service Award.

Goodman, a prominent horse owner and breeder, was 1994 Texas Breeder of the Year. His Two Altazano, one of the few Texas-bred fillies to win a Grade 1, captured four graded thoroughbred stakes 15 years ago.

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Churchill Downs To Install Permanent Lights By 2010 Spring Meet

Churchill Downs will install permanent lights at the home of the Kentucky Derby in time for the 2010 Spring Meet.

Spokesman Kevin Flanery said the overwhelming success of night horse racing at the track last summer led to the decision. The track averaged more than 29,000 fans during three special night racing events in June and July.

There are no plans to move post time for the 2010 Kentucky Derby, scheduled for May 1.

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Pacific Classic Stakes Field at Del Mar September 6

A field of 12 headed by Colonel John and Einstein will race in the $1-million Pacific Classic Stakes at Del Mar on Sunday, September 6.

As part of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge, the Pacific Classic winner will earn a berth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic on November 7 at Santa Anita Park.

Raced at 1 1/4 miles, Del Mar’s Pacific Classic field of race horses with jockeys and weight:

Informed ridden by jockey Tyler Baze carries 124 lbs.
Song of Navarone ridden by jockey Joel Rosario, 124 lbs.
Rail Trip ridden by jockey Jose Valdivia Jr., 124 lbs.
Richard’s Kid ridden by jockey Mike Smith, 124 lbs.
Mast Track ridden by jockey David Flores, 124 lbs.
Colonel John ridden by jockey Garrett Gomez, 124 lbs.
Misremembered ridden by jockey Victor Espinoza, 118 lbs.
Global Hunter (ARG) ridden by jockey Corey Nakatani, 124 lbs.
Tres Borrachos ridden by jockey Joseph Talamo, 124 lbs.
Einstein (BRZ) ridden by jockey Julien Leparoux, 124 lbs.
Parading ridden by jockey Rafael Bejarano, 124 lbs.
Awesome Gem ridden by jockey Alex Solis, 124 lbs.

The Pacific Classic Stakes is the 9th race in Del Mar’s September 6 horse racing program. Pacific Classic post time is 5:00 pm.

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Jockey Tyler Baze Injured

Jockey Tyler Baze is expected to be sidelined for a week after breaking his finger when he was unseated by his mount at Del Mar, where he is the second-leading rider.

Tyler Baze is wearing a cast on his broken left pinky finger. His mount unseated him Saturday, then ran off and was scratched from the day’s final race.

His agent says jockey Tyler Baze will have to give up mounts on Monterey Jazz in the $300,000 Del Mar Mile on August 29 and the $250,000 Del Mar Handicap, a Breeders’ Cup 2009 Challenge race on August 30.

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