After an ambitious 2018 campaign that lasted from January through December and saw her travel twice to the Eastern time zone as well as face males in a Kentucky Derby prep race, Paved was given a lengthy vacation, with the plan to bring her back in the summer and focus on the second half of 2019.
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It will be 227 days from the December 2 end of the 2018 Fall racing season at Del Mar to Wednesday’s start of the 80th Summer season.
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Point of Honor completed final preparations for next week’s Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks by breezing an easy half-mile in 49.03 seconds over the Oklahoma training track on Saturday.
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The two-hour ship from Churchill Downs to Indiana Grand for Saturday night’s $500,000 Indiana Derby should feel like a mere sprint to Gray Magician, runner-up in the $2.5 million UAE Derby in Dubai.
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Unbeaten Valiance continued to live up to her lofty yearling price, swinging out from a stalking trip in mid-stretch and going on to 1¼-length victory in Sunday’s $75,000 Open Mind Stakes at Monmouth Park.
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When Aron Wellman watched a feisty Curlin filly named Point of Honor break her maiden by six lengths in her debut at Gulfstream Park in December, the owner of Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners was impressed.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In early May, the sun may shine bright on “My Old Kentucky Home,” but a Kentucky Derby without Cot Campbell certainly seems like a day without sunshine. W. Cothran Campbell, known as Aiken’s “Rascal in Residence,” died in October after a rich and full life of 91 years, the ups and downs […]
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By BRYCE MILLER LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A broken-hearted community just found a horse to root for, two minutes to shake the horror and the hate and the pain of healing, a momentary pause from a harrowing storm. When 3-year-old Kentucky Derby upstart Gray Magician loads into the gate Saturday in front of 160,000 or so at iconic Churchill […]
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By Dede Biles dbiles@aikenstandard.com A colt purchased by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners at an auction in Florida on Wednesday will be named Cothran in honor of Dogwood Stable’s late president, W. Cothran “Cot” Campbell. “He is a knockout,” said an excited Jack Sadler of the colt during a telephone interview. “He took my breath away.” Sadler, […]
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By Jonathan Lintner Connections to horses on the Kentucky Derby 2019 bubble take note: Gray Magicianhas two tests left to pass before earning his way into the May 4 race at Churchill Downs. Aron Wellman, president of co-owner Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, said the recent UAE Derby (G2) runner-up is set to breeze both of the next two Saturdays […]
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