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Big Brown trainer Dutrow suspended for drug violation
Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Rick Dutrow has been suspended 30 days for violating doping rules. The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission issued the suspension Tuesday, more than a year after tests revealed that Salute the Count had an excessive amount of...Tags: Churchill Downs, Kentucky Derby, Kentucky
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Trainer Dutrow suspended 30 days for violating drug rules in Kentucky over a year ago
Associated Press WriterLEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Derby- and Preakness-winning trainer Rick Dutrow was suspended for 30 days on Tuesday for violating doping rules. The Kentucky Horse Racing Commission issued the suspension Tuesday, more than a year after tests...Tags: John Ward, Churchill Downs, Kentucky Derby, Steroids, Preakness Stakes
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Calder's Summit of Speed attracts elite field
South Florida Sun-SentinelCalder Race Course created the Summit of Speed to entice the nation's fastest horses to come south for a summer sprint showdown. It has never succeeded to the extent this Saturday's afternoon of seven stakes will. The reigning male and female Eclipse...Tags: Churchill Downs, Belmont Stakes, Mike Smith, Equestrian
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Tiger Woods, you're in denial: Just look at scoreboard
You may not realize this, but my column Monday doesn't reflect how good a writer I really am. I mean, I'm hitting the keys well, but the paragraphs just haven't been falling right for me. >>Photos of Tiger Woods at the U.S. Open I lipped out on a...Tags: Golf, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Belmont Stakes, Phil Mickelson, Mike Weir
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Belmont should remain the demanding one
It's a glorious anachronism, a remnant of a lost era when stamina, not speed, defined greatness in the thoroughbred. No one tries to breed a Belmont Stakes winner these days, when 3-year-olds are not meant to run 1½ miles on dirt. But America...Tags: Casino and Gambling, Belmont Stakes, Tourism and Leisure, Triple Crown, TiVo Inc.
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Don't count out Zito in Belmont Stakes
On paper, it's tough to make a case for either of Nick Zito's entries in Saturday's Belmont Stakes.
The numbers say Miner's Escape, whom Zito believes is the speedier of the two, can't run with Charitable Man, the horse he will have to beat to the...Tags: Belmont Stakes, Mine That Bird (racehorse), Kentucky Derby, Triple Crown, Preakness Stakes
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Desormeaux finally gets a Belmont win
It's always a long trip to the finish line in the Belmont Stakes but for Kent Desormeaux, negotiating that grueling 11/2 miles has been about as easy as traveling to Mars.
Twenty-three years, more than 5,000 career victories, three Kentucky Derby wins, a...Tags: California, Louisiana, Belmont Stakes, Kentucky Derby, Triple Crown
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Lessons learned from Belmont Stakes, Triple Crown
ed.mcnamara@newsday.comAnother Triple Crown has ended, and what have we learned? The same old stuff, and by next year most of us probably will have forgotten it. One lesson hammered home again is that experience means less than fresh legs in the 1 1/2-mile Belmont Stakes....Tags: Pimlico, Belmont Stakes, Mine That Bird (racehorse), Kentucky Derby, Triple Crown
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Summer Bird Wins Belmont, Mine That Bird Third
Staff WriterSummer Bird has won the Belmont Stakes, rallying past Mine That Bird to spoil jockey Calvin Borel's attempt at winning all three legs of the Triple Crown. Mine That Bird, with Borel aboard, came from last to take the lead right before the final turn. But...Tags: Belmont Stakes, Madison Square Garden, Kentucky Derby, Stock Market, Triple Crown
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It's a Bird! Summer Bird Wins Belmont
Staff WriterThis was a Belmont for the Birds. It was Summer Bird, not Mine That Bird and jockey Calvin Borel, who came roaring down the long stretch and won the final jewel of the Triple Crown on Saturday. For a brief moment on the turn for home, Borel looked like a...Tags: Belmont Stakes, Mine That Bird (racehorse), Kentucky Derby, Triple Crown, Preakness Stakes
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Summer Bird Wins the Belmont Stakes
The Associated PressThis was a Belmont for the Birds. It was Summer Bird, not Mine That Bird and jockey Calvin Borel, who came roaring down the long stretch and won the final jewel of the Triple Crown on Saturday. The upset ended Borel's bid to become the first jockey to...Tags: Belmont Stakes, Mine That Bird (racehorse), Kentucky Derby, Triple Crown, Preakness Stakes
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The Belmont: Summer Bird Spoils Borel's Bid
We couldn't ask Silver Charm, Real Quiet or Charismatic. We could never ask War Emblem and Funny Cide. There was no way Smarty Jones or Big Brown could tell us. What was it like? How did it feel to be so close to the Triple Crown you could sniff...Tags: Superman, Belmont Stakes, Mine That Bird (racehorse), Kentucky Derby, Triple Crown
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