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- joe drape (The New York Times)
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Topics: Kentucky, Churchill Downs, Kent Desormeaux, Rick Dutrow, Todd Pletcher
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Articles Written by: BILL FINLEY
Martha Maxine might seem like an ill-fitting name for a 5-year-old male horse, but there is an explanation. He used to be a she.
Martha Maxine will be a favorite in Saturdays Tony Maurello Stakes. He won the filly division last year.
Martha Maxine ...
Rice, 45, failed to win a race Monday, but so did Todd Pletcher. That allowed Rice to hang on to her tenuous lead in the trainers’ race and defeat Pletcher, 20-19.
Pletcher, who has one of the sport’s biggest and most talent-laden stables, has won ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. With a bigger, stronger, older male horse bearing down on Rachel Alexandra, threatening her supremacy with each ground-swallowing stride, her magical run through the 2009 racing season seemed certain to end. Macho Again had her ...
When Rachel Alexandra faces seven rivals in Saturday’s Woodward Stakes at Saratoga, she will have a chance at another prestigious victory and another first. No filly has won the 55-year-old Grade I race, which is open to older male horses, who are ...
The losing streak has stretched beyond two years, but Graham Motion has not become impatient. He is convinced that Better Talk Now still has what it takes to win a major race, and if he is right, the reward could be a big purse and a unique spot in ...
ALLENTOWN, N.J. Greg Peck always thought he’d do something special someday in harness racing, but he might have been the only one. Peck was stuck in the sport’s lowest leagues, training and driving at Tartan Downs in his native Nova Scotia, where ...
Michelle Nihei’s life changed one morning in 2001 when she showed up on the backstretch at Keeneland and persuaded a trainer to let her gallop a horse. No one at the Lexington, Ky., track knew anything about her or her background, but that didn’t ...
This comes even though horse owners began paying a $10 fee, imposed in early May, for each thoroughbred and harness horse that runs in New York.
The failure to provide thorough drug testing in harness racing appears to be one of a number of problems ...
JAMES GALLEGOS says he has been a fan of hamburgers since his parents took him to his first McDonald’s on his 4th birthday. But he rarely goes to McDonald’s anymore or to Burger King or Wendy’s. Instead, he’s become a regular at Five Guys in Shrewsbury. ...
A year ago, Kent Desormeaux left Belmont Park feeling as low as he ever had. He had ridden Big Brown, a horse he thought could not possibly lose in the Belmont Stakes. Instead, Desormeaux and Big Brown could not get the job done. The Triple Crown ...
