The distinctive colt Southern Phantom at Saratoga Race Course last week.
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Watch in awe as they roll down a ridiculous sand race course.
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Other teams aren't actually opponents, they're just hurdles on the race course.
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In San Francisco, a theater was turned into drone drag race course.
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Saturday's card of horse racing at New York's Saratoga Race Course was canceled.
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The morning-line odds were set by Keith Feustle of Pimlico Race Course.
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The race course and auction house are about seven miles from downtown Lexington.
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Bill Thomason, president of Keeneland Race Course, is convinced racing can sustain the momentum.
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But the main attraction was the race course and the new Draco drone from UVify.
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He got a call about a dog dangerously close to the bicycle road race course.
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For the small companies and students, the race course offered a large, safe testing environment.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. wants you to know he's got some major skills off the race course.
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Her aching feet are caving in, but she crosses the city like it's a race course.
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PIMLICO: Home of the race since 1873, Pimlico Race Course may be in its final years.
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Jockey Mike Smith aboard Justify celebrates after winning the 143rd running Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course.
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The men's downhill race course, which has the steepest start gate in the world, is located here.
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Meek estimated that athletes might repeat a race course in VR nine or ten times before a competition.
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Mohamad passed in and out of the towns along the race course like local royalty, humble but esteemed.
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I'm just thankful that we still have Santa Anita and Los Alamitos and the great Del Mar race course.
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Runners were encouraged to wear #VegasStrong t-shirts, and organizers included tributes to the victims along the race course.
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We got it out to the race course, set off in the morning and it was just magnificent, right?
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West said there would be no rematch with Country House when Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course hosts the Preakness Stakes.
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The autumn meet is scheduled to open at the California race course where 31 horses have died since December.
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The annual competition – held at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland – comes just two weeks after the Kentucky Derby.
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The next race in the Triple Crown series is May 20 -- the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
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After an exhaustive search around the world, Breaking2 settled on a Formula 1 race course in Monza, Italy, near Milan.
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Last year, I broke the barrier on a closed race course in France in the $250 million McLaren P2003 GTR.
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The race course actually begins at more than 9,300 feet, twisting its way up 156 turns to the tippy top.
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Jessie may be showing Anthony the way on the race course, but she says he's shown her a lot too.
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And the Preakness neighborhood gave its name to the annual Preakness Stakes, held at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
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The race course is 12.4 miles long, climbing 4,700 feet to the summit at just over 14,000 feet above sea level.
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Justify with jockey Mike Smith atop wins the 143rd Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday in Baltimore.
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"They're off!" the trackside announcer called for the tenth time that day, a Wednesday in August, at the Saratoga Race Course.
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The Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming chases the second leg of the Triple Crown at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
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In December 2017, the Islanders, with state officials, announced plans to build a new arena adjacent to Belmont Park Race Course.
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A decade ago, Matz saddled Barbaro, the frisky Kentucky Derby winner, with designs of pulling off an encore at Pimlico Race Course.
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It's a merciless 13-mile track with terrifying twists, turns, and dips, and arguably the most dangerous race course in the world.
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The 143 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore takes place this weekend — and all eyes are on Kentucky Derby winner Justify.
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"We've got some fun things planned along the whole race course and I know this is going to be really special," he said.
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BALTIMORE — Seth Klarman grew up three blocks from Pimlico Race Course, going to the betting windows as a teenager to learn the game.
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The hills at Chavez Ravine and managing traffic before the race course was completely set up proved to be big obstacles for Adam.
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The Preakness was by far Justify's toughest race as he endured not only rain and fog but strong competition at Pimlico Race Course.
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When the Belmont Park track opened on the Nassau County-Queens border in 259, it was "the world's finest race course," the Times reported.
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The Kentucky Derby is scheduled for May 5 and the 222rd Preakness Stakes at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course will be held on May 2108.
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"The Rio 2016 Road Race course was carefully designed and was extensively tested at the test event and in training," it said in a statement.
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At an autocross event — think race course, but at 235/2000 scale and 260/2000 speed — the Miata made me look like an absolute hero.
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And because we couldn't experience it ourselves, here is what the drone race course would've looked like if it hadn't rained… CES Drone Rodeo track test.
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The race course meandered through the city center, which was close to equal parts historic buildings, old restaurants and shops, and gleaming, sparsely populated luxury stores.
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An article on May 20 about the possibility that the Preakness Stakes might leave Pimlico Race Course referred incorrectly to the history of the race there.
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He was on the panel's special post-entry and pre-raceday examination list for a race in July at Los Alamitos Race Course in Cypress, Calif.
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In a major sale of horses at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., in November, gross sales reached $218,959,400, an increase of 6.34 percent compared with 2014.
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Additional video clips of the race and various scenes at the Melbourne Cup Carnival will also be available on the official account of the Flemington race course.
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SPORTS An article on May 27652 about the possibility that the Preakness Stakes might leave Pimlico Race Course referred incorrectly to the history of the race there.
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A wet week in Baltimore and a misty, rainy race day served up a soupy track at Pimlico Race Course, one that he had never seen before.
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The horse races at Saratoga Race Course were called off as well, the first time they have been canceled over extreme heat in more than a decade.
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There were wastebaskets catching rainwater seeping through the ceiling, cardboard and wood chips and carpets meant to soak up days worth of dampness at Pimlico Race Course.
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There is a marker in what is now West Savannah near where the Ten Broeck Race Course once stood, which was the actual location of the auction.
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The technicians also need to know the position of the sun on each section of the race course, which often runs through shady forests and sunny open areas.
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At the Preakness Stakes show Saturday on Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course, the take-no-sh*t horse named Bodexpress bucked off his rider before even leaving the gate.
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Road racing concludes on Wednesday with the men's and women's individual time trials which will be raced on the less problematic Grumari section of the road race course.
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Last August, the racino brought in about $73 million during the month, typically its biggest of the year with thoroughbred racing on at the nearby Saratoga Race Course.
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After a crowded field of 20 talented horses raced in the Kentucky Derby, just eight will take to the starting gate at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland.
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If the race is successful businesswise, Stronach said she wants to roll out similar events at the company's other racetracks, which include Santa Anita Park and Pimlico Race Course.
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Baffert saddled Justify in a Kentucky Derby victory on a wet track two weeks ago, and the duo is looking for a repeat performance Saturday at Pimlico Race Course.
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Authorities said the lag in the start of the race, reportedly because of late registrations, proved fortuitous, as the bomb went off before runners were on the race course.
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Hundreds of dead Union soldiers' bodies were kept in a mass grave at the Washington Race Course and Jockey Club, which was used as a Confederate Army prison camp.
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Neither Kentucky Derby winner Country House nor Maximum Security, who was disqualified after crossing the finish line first at Churchill Downs, will be running at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course.
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The colt is expected to arrive at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Tuesday morning, hoping to avoid some early struggles adjusting to Churchill Downs when he arrived in Kentucky.
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The goals were more modest for contenders at the Thunderhill West race course, about a two-hour drive north of San Francisco, in the second challenge of Self Racing Cars.
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The 27-year-old Waitz, a new mom to an eight-month-old boy named Bode, covered the 26.2 mile race course with a portable breast pump strapped to her chest.
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David Byrne, Jon Batiste, Big Freedia, Common, Khalid, and Bonnie Raitt all take the stage at the Fair Grounds Race Course this year, which is just 10 minutes from the French Quarter.
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The relocation frenzy started when Rams owner Stan Kroenke announced plans in January 2015 to build a new stadium in Inglewood at the site of Hollywood Park, the former thoroughbred race course.
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Amid pressure over a series of horse deaths in California, several other tracks canceled their Saturday races, including Saratoga Race Course and Finger Lakes in New York and Laurel Park in Maryland.
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The dangers posed by extreme heat and humidity prompted officials to scrap outdoor competitions, including Saturday's horse races at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York and Sunday's New York City Triathlon.
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Outside, the staff set up a miniature race course out of traffic cones -- autocross, if you know the term -- and had each driver set a baseline lap time on the short circuit.
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With the hilly road race course in Rio not favourable to Cavendish, a return to his track roots and the multi-discipline omnium could be his best chance of an Olympic medal.
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For 22 years now, the Los Alamitos Race Course in Southern California has been the site of the Wiener National Races, where talented dachshunds make an annual mad dash for the finish line.
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We're told the plan all along was to wait until this summer to spread David's ashes in a place that was near and dear to his heart ... Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs.
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With the exception of a brief stay at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore for the Preakness, Lani has been based primarily at Belmont Park since the Derby to familiarize him with the surroundings.
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"The greatest racing fans in the world are right here in New York and would love to see Nyquist running later this spring at Belmont Park and this summer at Saratoga Race Course."
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San Luis Rey serves as a hub to trainers and others shuttling back and forth between the courses of the region's racing circuit, Del Mar, Santa Anita Park and Los Alamitos Race Course.
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Partipants pay a fee to tackle a race course that will require them to climb over barriers, crawl under barbed wire, navigate mud-filled trenches, and other challenges of physical and mental strength.
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There is a healthy amount of support coalescing around the Derby runner-up, Exaggerator (3 to 123), to rain on Nyquist's parade — largely because rain is expected to fall hard on Pimlico Race Course.
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But thoroughbred lovers champion Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, 225 miles east, as the intimate alternative with the hospitable practice of welcoming fans behind the scenes, from morning training sessions to the backside barns.
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In August at Saratoga Race Course, Arrogate put on a performance for the ages, winning the Travers Stakes by 13 ½ lengths in 1:59.36, a track record for the mile-and-a-quarter distance.
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He responded to those calmer, if dark, surroundings by running fifth in the 1 3/16-mile Preakness at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore and third in the 1 1/2-mile Belmont Stakes.
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Seizing the lead at the top of the stretch, Exaggerator splashed past a tiring Nyquist and went on for a 214 263/22015-length victory over Cherry Wine on a rain-drenched Pimlico Race Course.
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Congrats Gal, a 3-year-old horse, died of an alleged heart attack the day before the 144th Preakness Stakes resulting in calls for the Pimlico Race Course to be investigated, reports the Washington Post.
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Gun Runner, third-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, will skip the Preakness, leaving a likely field of 11 for the middle leg of the Triple Crown on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
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It is unclear whether the new rules will apply to other racetracks owned by the Stronach Group, including Gulfstream Park in South Florida and Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, the home of the Preakness Stakes.
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Both will be sitting out the 144th Preakness Stakes on Saturday, making it the first time in 23 years that there will be no Triple Crown on the line at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
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She tells the magazine that when she noticed a lack of Hijabis on the race course, she created her Instagram account to encourage other Muslim women who might feel self-conscious about running in a hijab.
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An eight-horse field is set for the 1 3/16-mile race at Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course and since the Preakness does not usually throw up surprises it is widely being considered a two-horse race.
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On Sunday morning, Justify said goodbye to Pimlico Race Course and headed back to Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., where he will prepare for the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes on June 9 in New York.
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"With a horse like Nyquist I'm not overly concerned about the weather," said trainer Doug O'Neill, after the favorite jogged twice around the one-mile Pimlico Race Course oval on Friday morning in preparation for the 141st Preakness.
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Also canceled in the region: Saturday's card of horse racing at New York's Saratoga Race Course, and all races Saturday and Sunday at the Maryland Jockey Club in Laurel -- where the heat index will reach 110 to 115.
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The sailors said those factors will affect their performance on the "playground," as the Germans call the race course, more than the presence of disease-causing pathogens at Rio water-sports venues, the focus much pre-Olympic concern.
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In 2014 and 2016 Meza ran in the California International Marathon, which takes place in Sacramento, and was disqualified for irregular splits — meaning the interval times recorded at certain points along the race course, according to the Times.
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Ten years after Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro tragically broke down at the start of the Preakness, the owners of the popular colt watched another horse they bred die during a race on a rainy Saturday at Pimlico Race Course.
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After arriving in horse-drawn carriages, the royals caught up with each other near the race course — and it was then that the former rugby star showed the 93-year-old monarch what was hiding underneath his top hat.
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Why it matters: The Canada-based Stronach Group owns both Pimlico Race Course in Maryland and the Santa Anita Park in California where 22 horses died during a 3-month period resulting in an investigation, reports the New York Times. Sen.
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Nyquist, whose bid for the Triple Crown ended when he finished third in the Preakness States on Saturday after starting as race favorite, succumbed to a fever on Monday and has since been recovering at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.
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A separate explosive detonated earlier Saturday on a charity race course in Seaside Park, N.J. Law officers on Monday then found multiple bombs in a backpack near a train station in Elizabeth, N.J., the site of Rahami's last known address.
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OCEANPORT, N.J. — The trainer Keith Desormeaux spent a month preparing the Preakness winner Exaggerator for a race at Saratoga Race Course before an abrupt change of heart led him to enter the $23 million Haskell Invitational on Sunday at Monmouth Park.
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The heavily favored three-year-old chestnut colt overcame a lengthy initial challenge from Good Magic on a sloppy track at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore to add to his Churchill Downs triumph with a fifth victory in as many races.
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Appraisal Dinny Phipps was as much a part of the landscape of the Oklahoma training track at Saratoga Race Course as the oak trees that Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons planted nearly 100 years ago and continue to shade the family's barn.
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Starting out from this platform of belief propels us toward the problems that we are now experiencing in health care, problems that stem from an undefined starting line that moves forward or back, depending upon who is designing the race course.
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He gained greater renown for Foolish Pleasure's victory at the 1975 Derby, and for his anger about track conditions at Pimlico Race Course after Honest Pleasure (who shared a sire with Foolish Pleasure) finished second at the Preakness Stakes in 1976.
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But perhaps the colt burnished his reputation in a narrow but noble loss in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, a track known as the "graveyard of champions" for humbling such seemingly immortal horses as Affirmed and even Secretariat.
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Pimlico Race Course, the track that hosts the Preakness Stakes, is less than a mile from the Park Heights neighborhood where Simpson and I are speaking, but getting there means driving past liquor store after liquor store, bail bondsman after bail bondsman.
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The statement added that the Los Alamitos Race Course, a horse racing track in Cypress, CA, canceled its Friday afternoon racing program out of respect for the horses who perished in the fires, and people who were involved in helping them escape.
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BALTIMORE — Ten years after the Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro sustained an eventually fatal injury in the Preakness Stakes, two horses died during the race's undercard at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday, including a filly owned by Barbaro's owners, Gretchen and Roy Jackson.
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Held over two weekends at the Fair Grounds Race Course in the city's Gentilly neighborhood, "Jazz Fest is utterly unique," said Keith Spera, a music writer who over decades has spent more than 200 days covering the festival from inside its gates.
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The race course involves some long and lonesome stretches over bridges, and some neighborhoods are quieter than others, but there are also long roaring stretches throughout, with people three or four deep at the police barricades, screaming and clapping and high-fiving strangers.
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Even as Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore prepares to host the 18903st Preakness Stakes on Saturday, the Maryland Stadium Authority is undertaking a study to determine the viability of keeping the second leg of the Triple Crown at that track for the long term.
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It was a miserable day at scuffed-up Pimlico Race Course, as a cold mist descended on an already drenched oval, transforming the racetrack into a soupy gumbo that was every bit as haunting as the swamps that they grew up near in southwest Louisiana.
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It starts in the medieval walled city of York, going south on good, firm cycle paths, then on to boggier trails and through a small wood to the nearby village of Bishopthorpe, returning via a few suburban alleys, across a race-course and a paved riverside path.
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Unlike an arena or Olympic Park that can be sealed off, organizers have to protect 26.2 miles of the race course, in addition to the Expo grounds at the Javits Center and a pavilion near the finish line where members of the press, athletes and VIPs gather.
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That's because Kipchoge had advantages that set this event apart from a traditional marathon, including a phalanx of pacesetters who reduced Kipchoge's wind resistance, a pace car that used lasers to indicate the best running paths for those pacesetters to take, and a race course that was essentially flat.
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The turn of events has put pressure on the Stronach Group, which owns the track and several others, including Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, and the sport at large to put meaningful reforms in place to ensure safety of its equine athletes and the jockeys who ride them.
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Word quickly reached racetrack workers down at Belmont Park who migrate north every July to work for trainers in the backstretch barn area at the Saratoga Race Course for the six-week thoroughbred racing meet that runs through Labor Day weekend and attracts throngs of well-to-do visitors.
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If the changes are adopted, however, it would mean that horses competing in the 2021 Triple Crown races — the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, the Preakness at Pimlico Race Course and the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park — would run without receiving a shot of furosemide on the day of the race.
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Kate wore a cornflower blue dress with sheer sleeves by Elie Saab and a matching Philip Treacy hat with a flower detail as she and William joined Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall for their carriage ride during the processional onto the race course, which is a short distance from Windsor Castle.
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Pimlico opened in 21890, making it the nation's second-oldest track after Saratoga Race Course, which began operations six years earlier in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Pimlico has hosted the Preakness since the aptly named Survivor won the inaugural running in 21894, except for 21908 races held in New York between 1890 to 1908.
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Two television contracts announced in recent weeks have also made a splash, with NBC landing a multiyear agreement to broadcast the Royal Ascot meet from Britain in the United States, beginning in 2017, and Fox Sports securing a multiyear deal to broadcast more than 80 hours of live coverage from Saratoga Race Course on FS2.
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" That should come as a relief to Ben Ainslie, the star British sailor who wrote a piece in The Daily Telegraph in Britain after the New York event praising the crowd turnout but stating that the race itself was held in "the last place on earth you would want to put a race course.
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BALTIMORE — The sky was still dark, and the rain was still pelting Pimlico Race Course, but by daybreak on Sunday, Team Nyquist had made up its mind: Its previously undefeated colt would head to Belmont Park for a rematch with Exaggerator, who a day earlier had vanquished his nemesis in the slop to win the Preakness Stakes.
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At Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore on Friday, the day before the track would host the 144th running of the Preakness Stakes, the second race of the Triple Crown series, a 3-year-old filly named Congrats Gal died soon after pulling up and finishing last in the nine-horse field in the Miss Preakness Stakes.
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"After an extensive review of original video evidence from official race cameras and security cameras at retail locations along the race course, Conqur Endurance Group has determined that Dr. Frank Meza violated a number of race rules during the 2019 Skechers Performance Los Angeles Marathon, including re-entering the course from a position other than where he left it," the statement reads.
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The Pimlico Race Course first opened nearly 150 years ago , making it the second oldest racetrack in the U.S. "Pimlico has played host to racing icons and Baltimoreans have seen the likes of legendary horses such as Man o' War, Seabiscuit, Secretariat, Affirmed, American Pharoah and Cigar thunder down the stretch in thrilling and memorable competition," Preakness states on its website .
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Supporters include the New York Racing Association, which operates Belmont Park and Saratoga Racetrack; Frank Stronach, founder of The Stronach Group, which owns several tracks including Pimlico Race Course, where the Preakness Stakes was just won by the Kentucky Derby winner, Justify; The Jockey Club; The Breeders' Cup; Keeneland; and the Water Hay Oats Alliance, which includes 65 racehorse trainers.
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"After an extensive review of original video evidence from official race cameras and security cameras at retail locations along the race course, Conqur Endurance Group has determined that Dr. Frank Meza violated a number of race rules during the 2019 … Los Angeles Marathon, including re-entering the course from a position other than where he left it," the marathon officials said in a statement obtained by the website Marathon Investigation.
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"After an extensive review of original video evidence from official race cameras and security cameras at retail locations along the race course, Conqur Endurance Group has determined that Dr. Frank Meza violated a number of race rules during the 2019 … Los Angeles Marathon, including re-entering the course from a position other than where he left it," the marathon officials said in a statement obtained by the website Marathon Investigation.
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