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Posted on Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Stone Farm’s Wanderin Boy heads the 20th running of the $300,000 Hill ‘n’ Dale Cigar Mile Handicap (G1) – the feature on a 9-race card that will also include the 95th running of the $200,000 Remsen Stakes (G2) and the 87th running of the $200,000 Demoiselle Stakes (G2) on Saturday, November 29, at Aqueduct Racetrack.
The Cigar Mile Handicap field of horses with jockeys and weight line up as follows:
- Visionaire under jockey Alan Garcia carries 116 lbs.
- Arson Squad under jockey Garrett Gomez, 119 lbs.
- Harlem Rocker under jockey Eibar Coa, 115 lbs.
- Bribon under jockey Rajiv Maragh, 114 lbs.
- Tale of Ekati under jockey Edgar Prado, 116 lbs.
- Monterey Jazz under jockey David Flores, 118 lbs.
- Storm Play under jockey Cornelio Velasquez, 114 lbs.
- Wanderin Boy under jockey John Velazquez, 118 lbs.
- Kodiak Kowboy under jockey Ramon Dominguez, 116 lbs.
The Cigar Mile Handicap is horse race 8 of Aqueduct’s November 29 card. Cigar Mile post time is 3:48 pm Eastern. Included in its undercard is the Remsen Stakes with post time 3:19 pm and Demoiselle Stakes with post time 2:49 pm.
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Breeders’ Cup Challenge Results: Curlin Wins Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park & Makes Horse Racing History
Posted on Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Reigning Horse of the Year Curlin made horse racing history and became the first American thoroughbred to eclipse the $10 million mark in earnings Saturday as he came from behind to win the $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup at a sloppy Belmont Park.
With his 11th victory in 15 starts, Curlin took home $450,000 to raise his career earnings to $10,246,800. The 4-year-old son of Smart Strike passed Cigar, who earned $9,999,815 in 33 career starts.
“It’s amazing,” Curlin jockey Robby Albarado said. “I’m sure it is not going to hit me for a while. I’m sure this record will be broken one day, but it will take a helluva horse.”
A showdown with reigning Preakness and Kentucky Derby champion Big Brown looms at the Breeders’ Cup Classic on October 25 in Santa Anita Park. However, Curlin’s connections have expressed concern that the race will be over the synthetic surface at the California track.
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Breeders’ Cup Challenge Entries: Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park September 27; Curlin Draws Post 5
Posted on Thursday, September 25th, 2008
The 90th running of the $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational (G1) at Belmont Park on Saturday, September 27, is headlined by Horse of the Year Curlin who is trying to make history as American horse racing’s first $10 million earning race horse.
Belmont Park’s Jockey Club Gold Cup is a 2008 Breeders’ Cup Challenge event where the Jockey Club Gold Cup winner will automatically be one of the Breeders’ Cup entries for the $5-million Breeders’ Cup Classic on October 25 at Santa Anita Park.
The Jockey Club Gold Cup field with jockeys and weight in post position order:
- Ravel under jockey Rafael Bejarano carries 126 lbs.
- Merchant Marine under jockey Cornelio Velasquez, 126 lbs.
- Timber Reserve under jockey Kent Desormeaux, 126 lbs.
- Wanderin Boy under jockey Alan Garcia, 126 lbs.
- Curlin under jockey Robby Albarado, 126 lbs.
- Angliana under jockey Rajiv Maragh, 126 lbs.
- A. P. Arrow under jockey Ramon Dominguez, 126 lbs.
- Stones River under jockey Gabriel Saez, 126 lbs.
- Mambo in Seattle under jockey Edgar Prado, 122 lbs.
The Jockey Club Gold Cup is race 10 of 11 horse races in Belmont Park’s September 27 card. Jockey Club Gold Cup post time is 5:52 pm Eastern.
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Curlin Could Make Horse Racing History In the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park September 27
Posted on Sunday, September 21st, 2008
In Saturday’s 90th running of the $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational (G1) at Belmont Park, Stonestreet Stable’s reigning Horse of the Year Curlin could become the first American Thoroughbred to reach $10 million in earnings.
The 2007 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Curlin has earned $9,796,800 and trails only Cigar, who earned $9,999,815, as horse racing’s top money-earner. The winner’s share of the Jockey Club Gold Cup purse is $450,000, and that would vault Curlin to the top of the money pile. Second ($150,000), third ($75,000) or fourth ($37,000) would leave Curlin short of Cigar’s mark.
The biggest weekend of Belmont Park’s Fall Championship Meet continues on Sunday, September 28, with a card featuring 3 graded stakes races. And, as with Saturday’s Jockey Club Gold Cup Day card, those races are certain to have an impact on the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Santa Anita on October 24-25.
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Curlin Wins Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Course & Nears Cigar In Earnings
Posted on Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Curlin won the $500,000 Woodward Stakes beating long-shot Past the Point by 1 length Saturday at Saratoga Race Course.
The $300,000 winner’s share moved the Stonestreet Stable-owned Curlin past Skip Away as the second-leading money winning thoroughbred in history with more than $9.79 million and leaves him less than $200,000 behind Cigar ($9.9 million).
Curlin, ridden by jockey Robby Albarado, ran 1 1-8 miles in 1:49.34 in en route to his 4th victory in 5 starts this year and 6th straight win on dirt.
Last year’s Preakness Stakes and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, Curlin paid $2.70, $2.40 and $2.10. Past the Point, under jockey Edgar Prado, returned $13.80 and $6.40, and Wanderin Boy, piloted by jockey Julien Leparoux, paid $3.50 to show.
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Curlin Draws Post Position 5 In The Woodward at Saratoga August 30
Posted on Thursday, August 28th, 2008
2007 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner and Horse of the Year Curlin drew post position 5 post in a field of 8 and was made the 3-5 morning-line favorite for Saturday’s $500,000 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.
The 4-year-old regarded as the world’s best horse on dirt, Curlin, goes for his 6th straight win on that surface in the 1 1/8-mile Woodward, a winning streak interrupted last month when he was asked to race on grass for the first time and finished second in the Man o’ War Stakes at Belmont Park.
Jockey Robby Albarado, who has ridden Curlin throughout his career, has the mount and a victory in Saratoga’s Woodward will put the colt, whose earnings stand just short of $9.5 million, at the threshold of $10 million and in position to surpass Cigar by season’s end as the all-time leading money winning thoroughbred.
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Nick Zito May Run Wanderin Boy Against Curlin In The Woodward at Saratoga
Posted on Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Hall of Fame race horse trainer Nick Zito may be looking to run Authur Hancock’s Wanderin Boy against Curlin in The Woodward on August 30 at Saratoga. The 7-year-old Wanderin Boy is coming off an allowance win by 3 1/4 lengths at Saratoga on July 28.
The Woodward is a weight-for-age event, with 3-year-olds carrying 121 pounds and older horses 126 pounds.
“We’ve tried to beat every big horse that we could,” said race horse trainer Nick Zito, who ruined Big Brown’s Triple Crown bid with Da’Tara in the Belmont Stakes and nearly beat Big Brown again with Coal Play in the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on Sunday. “He had a wonderful prep race. He likes Saratoga. I think there’s a good possibility (for him to run in the Woodward). This is certainly a good spot for him.”
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