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Alsvid Tops a Big Day at Churchill Downs
"Churchill Downs’ Saturday card featured ten races, including the $100,000 Aristides Stakes (gr. III) and the $65,000 Opening Verse Stakes. Rain clouds came and went, occasionally releasing rain on the crowd gathered at Churchill Downs on the warm May afternoon. Nonetheless, it was a great day for live Thoroughbred action beneath the Twin Spires with a card that offered a variety of quality racing. . ."
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Each time I post a new article on my Horse Racing Nation blog, I post a notice on this blog. These notices include an excerpt from the beginning of that article and a link to the piece. My latest Horse Racing Nation article is. . .
Photo Blog: Wise Dan's First Gallop of 2015
"Three days after being cleared to resume galloping, two-time Horse of the Year Wise Dan headed to the training track at Keeneland to have his first gallop of 2015. Just before 9:00 a.m., the chestnut son of Wiseman's Ferry stepped onto the track - accompanied by trainer Charlie LoPresti's wife, Amy, and a pony. After jogging around the oval alongside the pony, Wise Dan and rider Kelly Wheeler broke away to complete one lap at a gallop. . ."
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Each time I post a new article on my Horse Racing Nation blog, I post a notice on this blog. These notices include an excerpt from the beginning of that article and a link to the piece. My latest Horse Racing Nation article is. . .
Wise Dan to Resume Galloping
"On a humid morning at Keeneland on May 27, two-time Horse of the Year Wise Dan stood in his stall in trainer Charlie LoPresti's barn at the Lexington, Kentucky track. He had been tacked up and was preparing to be walked along the shedrow - a routine he has followed every other day. The two-time Horse of the Year began tack walking in early March, when he returned to Keeneland to gradually resume training as he recovers from the non-displaced fracture at the bottom of his right front cannon bone that kept him from pursuing a third consecutive Breeders' Cup Mile (gr. I) win last fall. At the end of April, Wise Dan began jogging every other day, tack walking on days on which he does not visit the track.
But days will soon become much more exciting for the 8-year-old son of Wiseman's Ferry. . ."
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