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| TWO MINUTE LICK WITH JOHN PERROTTA top | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Congratulations to photographer Chelsea Moore, winner of the Fan Photo of the Week contest for March 7! From Chelsea: “I took this at Stonestreet farm one morning.” | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| NEW WEEKLY FEATURE: NTRA.com’s Eric Wing offers up insights on who he thinks are the Top 40 Triple Crown contenders. (Wing's Watch PDF) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Gulfstream Park Handicapping Challenge set for March 17-18 (Gulfstream Park)
Registration opens Tuesday
for Keeneland’s high-end Grade One Gamble on April 22, offering
5 NHC spots (NTRA)
Treasure Island to host
100% payback NHC Qualifiers April 7, May 6 and June 10
(NTRA.com)
Learn more about the 2012 Daily Racing Form NHC Tour (NHC) |
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RACING TO
HISTORY
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March 8, 1987: Carrying 126 pounds, Zany Tactics set the world record
for six furlongs, 1:06 4/5, at Turf Paradise. On
Feb. 21, 1993, his time was equaled by Honor the Hero, also at Turf
Paradise.
March 8, 1985: Chris McCarron rode his 4,000th career winner, Hawkley
(GB), in the fifth race at Santa Anita Park.
March 9, 1977: Seattle Slew made his three-year-old debut, at Hialeah.
He won a seven-furlong race in 1:20 3/5, breaking
the track record.
March 9, 2009: 2007 Belmont Stakes winner Rags to Riches gave birth to
her first foal, a filly by Giant’s Causeway, at Ashford Stud near
Versailles, Ky.
March 10, 1808: Diomed, the winner of the inaugural Epsom Derby in 1780,
died in Virginia at age 31. He had been imported to the U.S. 10 years
earlier and subsequently became an influential sire.
March 10, 1993: At age 41, jockey Eddie Delahoussaye had his 5,000th
career winner, aboard Ackler in the fifth race at Santa Anita Park. He
was the 14th rider in North American Thoroughbred racing to reach that
plateau.
March 11, 1943: After siring 350 foals that won over $3 million,
26-year-old Man o’ War was retired from stud duty.
March 12, 1966: In the last race of his 40-year career, John Longden won
the San Juan Capistrano Handicap at Santa Anita Park, aboard George
Royal. He retired with a then-record number of victories, 6,032.
March 13, 2004: Jockey Edgar Prado became the 19th rider to
reach the 5,000-win plateau with his victory aboard Wynn Dot Comma in
the Swale Stakes at Gulfstream Park.
March 14, 1941: Merrick died at age 38, establishing the longevity
record for a Thoroughbred.
March 14, 1973: In his final preparation for the March 17 Bay Shore
Stakes, the first race of his three-year-old season, Secretariat worked
three furlongs in a blistering :32 3/5.
March 14, 1976: Bill Shoemaker gained his 7,000th career victory, aboard
Charlie Whittingham-trained Royal Derby II, in the fifth race at Santa
Anita Park.
March 14, 1987: Jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. became the first rider in the
history of Santa Anita Park to win seven races in a single afternoon. In
his only loss of the day, Pincay finished third aboard Bob Back in the
eighth race.
March 17, 1973: In his three-year-old debut, Secretariat won the Bay
Shore Stakes at Aqueduct by 4 ½ lengths.
March 18, 2001: Zippy Chippy beat a Standardbred horse named Paddy’s
Lady at Freehold Raceway. Because the race was an exhibition, Zippy
Chippy officially maintained his record of 89 starts without a victory.
March 19, 1942: The Thoroughbred Racing Associations of the United
States was formed, with John C. Clark as president.
March 19, 1949: Jockey Bill Shoemaker rode his first career race, at
Golden Gate Fields. He finished fifth, aboard Waxahachie, in an
eight-horse field.
March 19, 2010: Ramon Dominguez became the 58th jockey to win
4,000 races when he guided Fortyninegeorgest to victory in the second
race at Aqueduct.
March 20, 1932: Phar Lap, legendary champion racehorse of Australia, won
his only start in North America, the Agua Caliente Handicap at Agua
Caliente Racecourse in Mexico. His time for the 1 ¼-mile race was 2:02
4/5, a track record. The six-year-old Phar Lap
died one month later and the cause of his death remains a mystery.
During his four years of racing in Australia, Phar Lap won 36 of 50
starts.
March 20, 1969: Less than two months after she became the first woman to
ride in a parimutuel race in America, Diane Crump rode her first winner
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SATURDAY, MARCH 10
Tampa Bay Derby, 3yo, $350,000, Grade II, 1 1-16M, Tampa Bay Downs
Gulfstream Park Handicap, 4&up, $300,000, Grade I, 1M, Gulfstream Park
San Felipe Stakes, 3yo, $300,000, Grade II, 1 1-16M, Santa Anita Park
Cicada Stakes, 3yo fillies, $150,000, Grade III, 6F, Aqueduct
Hillsborough Stakes, 4&up (f&m), $150,000, Grade III, 1 1-8M (T), Tampa
Bay Downs
Swale Stakes, 3yo, $150,000, Grade III, 7F, Gulfstream Park
Honeybee Stakes, 3yo fillies, $125,000, Grade III, 1 1-16M, Oaklawn Park
Razorback Handicap, 4&up, $125,000, Grade III, 1 1-16M, Oaklawn Park
Fred “Cappy” Capossela Stakes, 3yo, $100,000, 6F, Aqueduct
Allen Lacombe Memorial Handicap, 3yo fillies, $75,000, 7 1-2F (T), Fair
Grounds
Black Gold Stakes, 3yo, $75,000, 7 1-2 F (T), Fair Grounds
SUNDAY, MARCH 11
Herecomesthebride Stakes, 3yo fillies, $150,000, Grade III, 1 1-8M (T),
Gulfstream Park
Palm Beach Stakes, 3yo, $150,000, Grade III, 1 1-8M (T), Gulfstream Park
Las Flores Stakes, 4&up (f&m), $100,000, Grade III, 6 1-2F, Santa Anita
Park
Bryan G. Stakes, 4&up, $75,000, 1M, Aqueduct
TUESDAY, MARCH 13
Bensalem Stakes, 4&up, $75,000, 6 1-2F, Parx Racing
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14
Limit Stakes, 3yo fillies, $75,000, 1M, Aqueduct |
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