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By: Breeders' Cup Santa Anita Opens, Headlines Worldwide Challenge Weekend Along With Belmont, Chantilly and Nakayama
The waiting is over. The time to separate the contenders from the pretenders for the 33rd Breeders’ Cup is here. The opening of Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., along with Belmont Park in Elmont, NY, Chantilly Racecourse in France and Nakayama Racecourse in Japan, kicks off the first of two decisive Breeders’ Cup Challenge weekends, as no fewer than 11 “Win and You’re In” qualifiers will take place Saturday and Sunday, with 12 more lined up for next weekend. When the dust settles, nearly every one of the 13 Breeders’ Cup races will have defined fields, including the $6 million Classic, which will see the likely heavy favorite, CALIFORNIA CHROME, take center stage Saturday at Santa Anita in the $300,000 “Win and You’re In” Awesome Again (GI), which will award the seventh of eight automatic berths into this year’s race. By: Breeders' Cup LEXINGTON, Ky. (August 17, 2016) - Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum’s 5-year-old Postponed (IRE) asserted his position as one of the world’s top race horses winning Wednesday’s $1.249 million Juddmonte International (GI) at York by 1 ¼ lengths over Highland Reel (IRE), and earned an automatic berth into the $4 million Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1) through the International Breeders’ Cup Challenge.
By: Breeders' Cup Advisory: This is the 1st of nine weekly news releases focusing on the horses and races leading to the 32nd Breeders’ Cup World Championships on Friday, November 4 and Saturday, November 5 at Santa Anita. For more information, please visit www.breederscup.com. The Breeders’ Cup will be televised live on NBC and NBCSN. You can follow all the contenders’ activity leading up to the Breeders’ Cup with Equibase’s free “Road to the Breeders’ Cup” Virtual Stable notification service.
By: Breeders' Cup LEXINGTON, Ky. (August 12, 2016) – Led by Qipco 2000 Guineas winner Galileo Gold (GB)
and defending champion Esoterique (IRE), a field of 11 horses is slated to start in Sunday’s one-mile Prix du Haras de Fresnay-Le Buffard – Jacques Le Marois (G1) at Deauville, with the winner receiving an automatic berth into the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Mile through the international Breeders’ Cup Challenge. By Chris Crestik  First leg of the Pick 4 at 2:02 PT
Race 8 (Test): (7) OFF THE TRACKS no surprise here the 8-5 morning line favorite has done nothing wrong in her six career starts. A victory in her last start in the Grade 1 Mother Goose and a very respectable 2nd in her other Grade 1 start in the Acorn. She will be trying 7 furlongs for the first time here today. (5) LIGHTSTREAM a wide trip 3rd to a few of her rivals she races again today. I find the cutback to the sprinting distance will make this 3-year-old filly have the best closing kick out of all these fillies. JOE JOHNSON WINS NHC TOUR FIRST HALF,TOP FIVE EARN $10,000 BREEDERS’ CUP BETTING CHALLENGE ENTRIES8/4/2016
By Breeders' Cup & NTRA LEXINGTON, Ky. (Thursday, August 4, 2016) – Joe Johnson, of San Antonio, Texas, rode the lone speed of Laoban all the way to a $10,000 Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge entry as the winner of the National Handicapping Championship (NHC) Tour’s “First Half,” which concluded Sunday. By pegging that 27-1 winner of Saturday’s Jim Dandy (G2) at Saratoga Race Course, Johnson vaulted himself to an 11th-place finish in a Free-to-Play online qualifier presented by the NTRA on NHCQualify.com, good for 2,851 points on the day and a final tally of 13,578 points on the “First Half” leaderboard. The “First Half” top five – each of whom received either a Breeders’ Cup Betting Challenge entry worth $10,000 or the equivalent in cash – was rounded out by Gary McMaster (12,969 points), Cheryl McIntyre (12,617), Rick Broth(12,555), and Kevin Engelhard (12,199).
By Breeders' Cup Classic berth at stake on Broadcast of “Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series: Win And You’re In – Presented By Lane’s End Farm and America’s Best Racing” NEW YORK (July 29, 2016) – Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist and Preakness Stakes winner Exaggerator will square off again on Sunday, July 31 as the 2016 “Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series: Win and You’re In presented by Lane’s End Farm and America’s Best Racing” continues with the live broadcast on NBC at 5:00 p.m. ET from Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J, with an outstanding renewal of the $1,000,000 Haskell Invitational, an automatic qualifier for the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic.
2016 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE RAMON DOMINGUEZ JOINS INAUGURAL ‘HRRN EN ESPANOL’ BROADCAST THIS SATURDAY7/26/2016
Horse Racing Radio Network (HRRN), the Eclipse Award-winning broadcast organization based in Lexington, KY and official radio home of the Triple Crown and Breeders’ Cup World Championships, announced today, Hall of Fame jockey Ramon Dominguez will join hosts Roberto “El Potro” Rodriguez and Eloy Vielma on HRRN’s Spanish language broadcast of the Jim Dandy Stakes from Saratoga this Saturday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 25, 2016) – Led by 3-year-olds Galileo Gold (GB), The Gurkha (IRE) and Awtaad (IRE) - the first three finishers in the St. James’s Palace Stakes (G1) at Royal Ascot - 10 horses have been entered for Wednesday’s one mile Qatar Sussex Stakes (G1) at Glorious Goodwood, with the winner receiving an automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) through the international Breeders’ Cup Challenge.
By Chris Crestik  With the return of California Chrome to the races in the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap and another Grade 2 in the San Clemente for 3-year-olds on the turf, Saturday's Pick 4 has a lot of potential. That being said, all of Saturday's card is an exceptional fine betting affair at Del Mar.
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