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Articles Written by: MARCUS HERSH
ARCADIA, Calif. - The connections of the unbeaten Zenyatta, who raced to her 13th straight victory in the Lady's Secret Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita's Oak Tree meeting, said Monday they would wait as long as possible before determining which ...
From MARCUS HERSH,
ESPN,
13 Oct 2009
LEXINGTON, Ky. - It was all going to be so fitting. Juddmonte Farms sponsored the Spinster Stakes at Keeneland, and there came the Juddmonte homebred Proviso, making her North American debut Sunday, racing to the eighth pole with a clear lead in the ...
From MARCUS HERSH,
ESPN,
11 Oct 2009
The farther he drifted out in the stretch, the more Proceed Bee extended his lead, and at the finish wire he had won the Grade 3, $200,000 Hawthorne Derby by 2 1/4 lengths despite racing nearer the outside fence than the inner rail.
Maybe wider was ...
From MARCUS HERSH,
ESPN,
10 Oct 2009
STICKNEY, Ill. -- No Inflation carries top weight of 122 pounds in the Grade 3, $200,000 Hawthorne Derby on turf Saturday. On paper, he also is the 800-pound gorilla among 10 entered in the race.
No Inflation has faced better horses while running in ...
From MARCUS HERSH,
ESPN,
9 Oct 2009
STICKNEY, Ill. -- The last time Awesome Gem shipped out of California to run 1 1/4 miles in mud it was the fall 2007. Awesome Gem ran well, finishing third in the 2007 Breeders' Cup Classic to Horse of the Year, Curlin. Suffice it to say: There were no ...
From MARCUS HERSH,
ESPN,
3 Oct 2009
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. -- In the same way you know Calvin Borel is coming up the fence if he can, you just know that jockey E.T. Baird is going to the lead if at all reasonable. Yet Baird still put them all to sleep Saturday at Arlington Park, guiding ...
From MARCUS HERSH,
ESPN,
5 Sep 2009
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - There must be a ceiling to Gio Ponti's ability somewhere up there. But after his scintillating 1 1/4-length victory in the 27th Arlington Million on Saturday at Arlington Park, it's hard say just where that ceiling sits. ...
From MARCUS HERSH,
ESPN,
8 Aug 2009
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. -- If Giant Oak runs back to his Arlington Classic win, he could be the right horse. If Black Bear Island proves half as dominant as European-based winners of the race the last two years, he might be the one. If Take The Points ...
From MARCUS HERSH,
ESPN,
7 Aug 2009
One and one-sixteenth miles on May 9, five furlongs on May 27, three-quarters on June 21, and 5 1/2 furlongs on Saturday: Yankee Injunuity's trainer and co-owner Jim McMullen has kept poking around, trying to find his horse's hole card. Everything came ...
From MARCUS HERSH,
ESPN,
11 Jul 2009
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. -- Two Saturdays, two graded stakes at Arlington Park for Pennsylvania-based trainer Jonathan Sheppard.
On July 4, Sheppard won the Chicago Handicap with George Strawbridge's Informed Decision, and this time, Sheppard won the ...
From MARCUS HERSH,
ESPN,
11 Jul 2009
