Lawyer Ron Favorite at The Super Derby

Posted on Friday, September 22nd, 2006

Arkansas Derby winner, Lawyer Ron, is ready for his comeback as he headlines the field for Saturday’s $500,000 Super Derby at Louisiana Downs. After finishing 12th in the Kentucky Derby in May, Lawyer Ron was sidelined for more than three months after undergoing surgery to remove a small chip in his right hind ankle.

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Becrux Wins $1 Million Woodbine Mile

Posted on Thursday, September 21st, 2006

TORONTO (AP) — Pat Valenzuela’s return to racing was a winning one Sunday when the jockey guided Becrux to a neck victory over Rebel Rebel in the $1 million Woodbine Mile. Valenzuela, out for two months with a back injury, replaced Corey Nakatani, who hurt his shoulder in a training accident at Santa Anita.

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Cancer-Striken Lost In Fog Euthanized

Posted on Tuesday, September 19th, 2006

Three weeks after doctors found three cancerous tumors in his spleen and along his back, champion sprinter and Eclipse Awardee Lost in the Fog, was euthanized Sept. 17.

Greg Gilchrist, Lost in the Fog’s trainer, noticed his 4-year-old horse was in pain after their morning walk Sunday at Golden Gate Fields, his home track. Gilchrist consulted with doctors, and Lost in the Fog was put to death that evening.

“The cancer was just too far advanced, and we couldn’t get it turned around,” Gilchrist said. “He went downhill real quick. He was fine (shortly) before we had to put him down.”

The horse won 11 of his 14 career starts, earning $978,099 in a brief but spectacular career. His owner, 85-year-old Harry Aleo, rejected several offers to buy the colt.

The Northern California favorite won the 2005 Eclipse Award as sprinter of the year after winning his first 10 races beginning in November 2004.

After a six-month break, Lost in the Fog returned this year with a second-place finish in the Golden Gate Fields Sprint and an improbable victory in the Grade 3 Aristides at Churchill Downs on June 3 — a race he ran with an undiscovered football-sized tumor in his abdomen.

During a routine checkup for what Gilchrist thought was colic, doctors discovered significant lymphoma in the horse last month, with tumors near his spleen, kidneys and spine. Lost in the Fog underwent his first chemotherapy treatment Sept. 7 and was scheduled for another next week.

Lost in the Fog will be cremated, and Gilchrist expects his ashes to be transported to Florida.

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Wyoming Downs Race Track Sold

Posted on Monday, September 18th, 2006

A company purchased Wyoming’s only horse track, Wyoming Downs, and plans to improve the facility and offer larger purses. The track is popular with Utah gamblers. The Wyoming Pari-Mutuel Commission has conditionally approved a license for Wyoming Downs’ new owner, Wyoming Entertainment LLC.

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Man o’ War Stakes Winner Cacique to Stand at Banstead Manor

Posted on Thursday, September 14th, 2006

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. An Irish-bred son of Danehill bred and raced by Juddmonte, also won the Manhattan Handicap (gr. IT) at Belmont in June and ran second in three grade I turf stakes this year.

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Borrego to Stand at Wintergreen for $20,000

Posted on Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Grade I winner Borrego will enter stud in 2007 at Wintergreen Stallion Station near Midway, Ky., and will stand for $20,000 live foal. A winner on both dirt and turf as a 2-year-old, Borrego first encountered national prominence while finishing a smart second to Smarty Jones in the 2004 Arkansas Derby (gr. II). Borrego was the only horse to run in that year’s Kentucky Derby (gr. I) and go on to win as many as two grade I stakes the following year.

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Cacique Takes man o’ War Stakes

Posted on Monday, September 11th, 2006

Cacique pulls a 1 3/4 -length victory Saturday in the $500,000 Man o’ War Stakes at Belmont Park. Cacique, a 5-year-old who started his career in Europe, improved his record to two wins and three seconds in six U.S. starts this season since joining the barn of Hall of Famer trainer Bobby Frankel.

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