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Rick Snider: Lukas' run isn't over just yet
Rick Snider
Updated: 23 hr ago
BALTIMORE - The man in the white hat rode off into the sunrise a winner once more. Trainer D. Wayne Lukas was once the bad guy in thoroughbred racing. Wearing a white Stetson around the barns and expensive suits in winner's circles, he dragged an old-school sport into modern times by making...
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Rick Snider: Oxbow pulls a shocker at Preakness Stakes
Rick Snider
Published: Sat, May 18, 2013
BALTIMORE - It was the perfect Hollywood ending. Jockey Gary Stevens retired after a hall-of-fame career, instead racing horses in an HBO series about a washed up rider. But the series was cancelled and Stevens recently returned to the saddle after seven years. Maybe Stevens' next movie...
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Rick Snider: The Preakness pick is Orb
Rick Snider
Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013
The Preakness Stakes will be decided long before the finish line, even if it's not a runaway ending. Govenor Charlie and Goldencents figure to lead early in Saturday's second leg of the Triple Crown at Pimlico Race Course. They want to steal the Preakness, like so many predecessors. But it...
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Rick Snider: Old school rules once more at Preakness
Rick Snider
Published: Wed, May 15, 2013
Old school and old money once more rule the Triple Crown. After a quarter century of supermarket stable trainers D. Wayne Lukas, Bob Baffert and Todd Pletcher rolling into tracks shortly before spring classics, Pimlico's stakes barn was filled four days ahead of Saturday's Preakness Stakes....