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Through the binocs

Not often you see two sure things race in the same week. First was Life by RR in Wednesday's fifth race at Hollywood Park. The last horse entered under name of Hall-of-Famer Bobby Frankel, who died last Monday, Life by RR won gate to wire at 3-2. ...

From ED FOUNTAINE, New York Post,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bobby Frankel,  Alan Garcia,  Barclay Tagg,  Pat Kelly

Bobby Frankel dies at age 68

Brooklyn-born Hall-of-Fame trainer Bobby Frankel, who worked his way up from a stable hand at Aqueduct to become one of the legendary horsemen in thoroughbred racing, died yesterday at his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., after a long bout with ...

From ED FOUNTAINE AND GEORGE A. KING III, New York Post,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bobby Frankel,  D. Wayne Lukas,  Belmont Stakes,  Joe Torre

Ed Fountaine's stakes spot plays

BONNIE HEATH TURF CUP HANDICAP Calder, 10th race. Purse: $150,000. Mile-and-an-eighth, turf, Florida-bred 3-year-olds and up. Post: 4:17 p.m. LOWDOWN: Pickapocket came off a six-month layoff to rally for second over this course and today stretches out ...

From ED FOUNTAINE, New York Post,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Churchill Downs

Horse of year down to wire

ARCADIA, Calif. -- The 2009 Breeders' Cup is in the books, but there's another race yet to be run: A match race in the Eclipse Award ballot box between the 3-year-old super filly Rachel Alexandra and the 5-year-old super mare Zenyatta for Horse of the ...

From ED FOUNTAINE, New York Post,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Zenyatta,  Bob Baffert

Zenyatta's rally stuns the boys

ARCADIA, Calif. -- Amazing! In a bravura performance that will burn brightly forever in the annals of thoroughbred racing, the undefeated mare Zenyatta soared past an international field of 11 top colts and geldings to score a brilliant victory under ...

From ED FOUNTAINE, New York Post,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Zenyatta,  Mike Smith

'Dancing' wins in a photo stunner

ARCADIA, Calif. -- In one of the greatest and closest finishes in Breeders' Cup history, four horses -- Dancing in Silks, Crown of Thorns, Cost of Freedom and Gayego -- flashed under the wire of the $2 million Sprint at Santa Anita Park so desperately ...

From RAY KERRISON AND ED FOUNTAINE, New York Post,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Frankie Dettori,  Saeed bin Suroor,  Garrett Gomez,  Bob Baffert,  Olivier Peslier

Countdown to the Cup

The Post continues its profiles of each of the eight Breeders’ Cup races to be run today at Santa Anita. The Countdown to the Cup spotlights potential nice-price winners as handicapped by reporter Ed Fountaine and columnist Ray Kerrison. Good luck. ...

From ED FOUNTAINE, New York Post,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Zenyatta

Life Is Sweet for Shirreffs in Ladies'

ARCADIA, Calif. -- Emerging from the shadow of her stablemate Zenyatta, who won last year's $2 million Ladies' Classic at Santa Anita, but this year opted for today's $5 million Classic, Life Is Sweet came with a last-to-first rally under Garrett Gomez ...

From ED FOUNTAINE, New York Post,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Life Is Sweet,  Zenyatta,  Garrett Gomez,  Jewel,  Johnny Murtagh

Undefeated star looks to answer distance question

ARCADIA, Calif. -- They call her the "Zen Master." Zenyatta, the darling of California racing fans, is a towering Amazon who achieved immortality by winning her first 13 races without a defeat, equaling the mark of the great Personal Ensign. Today at ...

From ED FOUNTAINE, New York Post,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Zenyatta,  ESPN,  Aidan O'Brien,  Belmont Stakes

Breeders' Cup ready to kick off

Arcadia, Calif. -- The 14 races of the Breeders' Cup World Championships are being run over two days at Santa Anita for the second straight year, and once again the five races restricted to fillies and mares will be run today. It won't be exclusively ...

From ED FOUNTAINE, New York Post,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Belmont Stakes,  Jewel,  Zenyatta

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