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[h=3]Pure Fun stunner in Hollywood Starlet[/h]Trainer Kenny McPeek and his family-run Magdalena Racing decided after a 91/4-length win in a Churchill Downs optional claiming race that they should pay a $20,000 supplemental fee to put Pure Fun in Saturday's $500,000, Grade I Hollywood Starlet for 2-year-old fillies at Betfair Hollywood Park. the CJ.com

 

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[h=3]Pure Fun stunner in Hollywood Starlet[/h]Trainer Kenny McPeek and his family-run Magdalena Racing decided after a 91/4-length win in a Churchill Downs optional claiming race that they should pay a $20,000 supplemental fee to put Pure Fun in Saturday's $500,000, Grade I Hollywood Starlet for 2-year-old fillies at Betfair Hollywood Park. CJ,com

 

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[h=3]Florida Derby winner Take Charge Indy will race again in 2013[/h]Take Charge Indy, winner of this year's Florida Derby and recent runner-up in Churchill Downs' Grade I Clark Handicap, will remain in training for 2013, it was CJ.com

 

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[h=3]Road to the Derby: Jennie Rees looks at this weekend’s prep race[/h]Churchill Downs has changed the method in which horses earn their way into the Kentucky Derby if more than 20 are entered for next May 4's race, abandoning preference based on graded-stakes earnings in favor of a tiered points system based on 36 races. cj.com

 

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[h=3]Pletcher-trained colt Violence moves up with win in CashCall Futurity[/h]Violence became a Grade I winner in his third career start, remaining undefeated with a 1¼ length victory Saturday over Fury Kapcori and nine other 2-year-olds in the $750,000 CashCall Futurity at Betfair Hollywood Park in Inglewood, Calif. cj.com

 

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[h=3]Magna Fortuna owner on At The Races with Steve Byk[/h]Gail Vacca - the head of the Illinois Equine Humane Center who rescued from slaughter the mare who wound up carrying the now 2-year-old colt and Courier-Journal blog subject Magna Fortuna -- will be on At The Races with Steve Byk at 11 a.m.cj.com

 

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• [h=3]KENTUCKY DERBY[/h][h=3]Derby winner Animal Kingdom to begin stud career in Australia[/h]John Messara's Arrowfield Stud has acquired a majority interest in the breeding rights to Team Valor's 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom, who will begin his stud career in Australia next September and likely shuttle to the Northern Hemisphere beginning in 2014.
  
  
  
  
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[h=3]Rescued horse finishes ninth in racing debut[/h]Magna Fortuna, a racehorse who is lucky to be alive, finished up the track in his debut Wednesday at Hawthorne Racecourse near Chicago. Magna Fortuna went off at 3-1 odds and finished ninth among 12 horses in a maiden race won by 15-1 shot BS Wildcat.cj.com

 

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[h=3]Rick Pitino-owned Avare takes Eddie Logan[/h]Just about the time University of Louisville coach Rick Pitino was savoring a victory over the University of Kentucky in the Battle of the Bluegrass, one of his young Kentucky-breds was capturing a stakes at rainy Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif. cj.com

 

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[h=3]Kauai Katie rebounds from Breeders' Cup 4th[/h]Kauai Katie, coming off a fourth-place finish in the two-turn Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, went back to one turn and won the $100,000, Grade III Old Hat on Tuesday at Gulfstream Park.CJ,com

 

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[h=3]Gary Stevens will ride back out of the sunset at least once[/h]After a seven-year retirement, Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, 49, announced Thursday on HRTV that he will return to the saddle Sunday to ride one race at Santa Anita.

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[h=3]Wise Dan an Eclipse finalist in 3 categories[/h]Keeneland-based Wise Dan is a Eclipse finalist in three categories, including Horse of the Year

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At the Keene land January Horses of All Ages sale, which starts Monday in Lexington, many participants expect to see more of what they've witnessed for the past 12 months — a stable but still selective market taking baby steps toward greater returns...

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[h=3]Street Sense yearling filly sells for $1.45 million in robust Keeneland sale session[/h]The cumulative gross of $35,345,100 is now 17.37 percent ahead of the 2012 numbers with the average ($78,720) and median ($35,000) up 27.30 and 16.67 percent. 2 hours ago

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[h=3]Jockey Gary Stevens says he wants to ride full-time again[/h]The comeback of Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens is complete. The three-time Kentucky Derby winner won the first race at Santa Anita on Saturday and announced that he was no longer a part-time rider.CJ.com

 

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[h=3]Jockey Gary Stevens puts Keeneland, Churchill on meet calendar[/h]Gary Stevens — the Hall of Fame jockey now eight races into his comeback after more than seven years in retirement — says he will ride the entire meet at Keeneland and is 'almost definite' to do the same at Churchill Downs this spring.CJ.com

 

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[h=3]Keeneland announces richer spring stakes schedule[/h]Keeneland announced a spring schedule of 16 stakes races worth $3.625 million Thursday, an increase in purses of $200,000 over last year's meet.

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[h=3]Jockey Ramon Dominguez fractures skull in spill[/h]The agent for jockey Ramon Dominguez said late Friday that the nation's leading rider suffered a fractured skull in a spill during the seventh race at Aqueduct in New York. CJ.com

 

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[h=3]Wise Dan named Horse of the Year[/h]For the majority of the voters who cast their Eclipse Award ballots, there indeed was no horse in North America above Wise Dan. As he did on the track, Morton Fink's homebred gelding strode into rarefied company Saturday night when he was named ...

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