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8/30/06 Last updated: 8/29/06 7:53 PM Next Saturday’s St Leger (Eng-G1) took another blow Tuesday when Renata Jacobs’ Linas SELECTION (Selkirk) was ruled out of the oldest Classic. It was the […]

8/30/06 Last updated: 8/29/06 6:00 PM Fair Grounds, the nation’s third oldest Thoroughbred racetrack, continues to recover from the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. The facility lost half of its grandstand […]

8/30/06 Last updated: 8/29/06 8:39 PM THREE-YEAR-OLDS & UP DIARY AUGUST 30, 2006 by James Scully BERNARDINI (A.P. Indy) sprung out of the far turn in Saturday’s Travers S. […]

8/30/06 Last updated: 8/29/06 3:06 PM Doug Bredar, the racing secretary at Churchill Downs and Ellis Park, was fired on Monday, according to Daily Racing Form. Bredar, 44, had served in […]

8/30/06 Last updated: 8/29/06 8:03 PM Catastrophe colt brings top price at final session of Fasig-Tipton Texas sale Hip No. 335, a dark bay colt by Catastrophe, fetched the high price […]

8/30/06 Last updated: 8/29/06 7:55 PM Doncaster Bloodstock Sales Company’s three-day St Leger Yearling Sale got underway Tuesday, with a colt and filly sharing top honors at 130,000 guineas apiece. […]

8/30/06 Last updated: 8/29/06 7:55 PM Team Valor’s IIRRIDESCENCE (Caesour) is being lined up for a French campaign which will begin Sunday in the Prix du Moulin de Longchamp (Fr-G1). Rested since […]

8/30/06 Last updated: 8/29/06 7:53 PM Aidan O’Brien reported Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith’s GEORGE WASHINGTON (Danehill), a comeback third in the Celebration Mile (Eng-G2) at Goodwood, has emerged […]

8/29/06 Last updated: 8/28/06 9:16 PM DEL MAR DAILY NOTEBOOK MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 2006 by Brian P. Turner A field of nine, including one coupled entry, went to the […]

8/29/06 Last updated: 8/28/06 8:06 PM A remarkable 98.6 percent of the horses were sold during a robust renewal of the Magic Millions Perth Thoroughbred Sale at Belmont Sunday. Two horses from […]