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O.C. party leaders analyze Assembly race
IRVINE — The head of the Orange County Democratic Party said 74th Assembly District Republicans missed an opportunity in the June 5 primary by not voting for Newport Beach Councilwoman Leslie Daigle. According to Frank Barbaro, the moderate...Tags: Allan R. Mansoor, Elections, Jerry Brown, Politics, Republican Party
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Five years later: Barbaro's death remembered
Alex Brown knows just where he was in 1977, when he learned of Elvis' demise. And in 1997, when he heard that Princess Diana had died. And on Jan. 29, 2007 — five years ago Sunday — when he got the news that, after a game fight for life, a...Tags: University of Pennsylvania, Media Industry, Edgar Prado, Media Industry, Preakness Stakes
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Field runs deep for today's Kentucky Derby
LOUISVILLE, Ky.- Hot pace. Muggy day. One of the deepest, talented fields in years. A delicious stew with all the ingredients for an unpredictable Kentucky Derby. The 20-horse field for Saturday's race is so stacked that unbeaten Gemologist is no...Tags: Julien Leparoux, Nehro (racehorse), Calvin Borel, Heart Attack, Kentucky Derby
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Questions persist for Derby contender Union Rags, and for his handlers
Michael Matz and his assistants are tired of the question — most trainers and riders are by this point in the week before the country's most talked-about horse race — and give mostly a perfunctory answer. "He's just a really nice horse,"...
Tags: Sports, Horse and Harness Racing, White House, Pimlico Race Course, Churchill Downs
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Kentucky Derby picks: Keep your eye on late-charging Dullahan
The computer program came up with Hansen, and he certainly has a shot. However, Hansen's last prep race was very telling, and not in ways that suggest he can win. Many observers felt his Breeders' Cup Juvenile victory last fall demonstrated some...
Tags: Kentucky Derby, Equestrian
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Going to the barns on the day after Derby brings up one question: what if?
What’s left after all the bourbon is poured and money bet, after the hats are soaked through with the sweat of those elated by a validated hunch or devastated by a sure thing who wouldn’t go, after tension built over years and years is...
Tags: Triple Crown, Pimlico, Kentucky Derby, Equestrian
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I'll Have Another scheduled to arrive at Pimlico on Monday afternoon
The Baltimore SunAs preparations begin on Old Hilltop for the 137th running of the Preakness Stakes, the star of the field already has a confirmed arrival date. Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have Another will show up Monday, much earlier than originally expected...Tags: Triple Crown, Travel, Trips and Vacations, Science, Zoology
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Motion, Matz and the calm (or chaos) before the Preakness storm
A steady, cool wind swept across the track at the Fair Hill Training Center Friday as two trainers prepared colts to run in next Saturday’s 137th Preakness. Went the Day Well, the fourth-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby trained by Graham...
Tags: Triple Crown, Kevin Plank, Science, Zoology, Under Armour Inc.
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Preakness entrant Went the Day Well another one of Graham Motion's success stories
His day-to-day work has not changed. The routine for Graham Motion is no different now than it was in the early 1990s, when he first became a thoroughbred trainer. "We send them out there, see how they are doing, take what we can from what we see and...
Tags: Science, Zoology, The New York Times, Pimlico, Preakness Stakes
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Rick Dutrow brings Zetterholm to Preakness under cloud of suspicion
Rick Dutrow knows there's a difference coming into Preakness with a horse that has won the Kentucky Derby and one that didn't even make it to the starting gate at Churchill Downs. If anything, it might be a little easier for Dutrow coming to Pimlico...
Tags: Triple Crown, Kevin Plank, Tampa, Churchill Downs, Big Brown
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Is this the year a Maryland-trained horse wins the Preakness again?
Deputed Testamony is 32-years-old. His dark brown coat is shaggy, and his biggest excitement is going into his paddock at Bonita Farm for three or four hours of grazing each day. He is a pensioner, an icon. The oldest living winner of a Triple Crown...
Tags: Sports, Triple Crown, Horse and Harness Racing, Pneumonia, Kevin Plank
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Michael Matz's Teeth of the Dog could surprise in Preakness after Union Rags' disappointing Derby
At the desk where he works through entries after all of his morning training sessions are through, Michael Matz keeps a photo leaning against the wall. In a walnut frame, it is slightly – and surprisingly – faded. The text below a horse in...
Tags: Triple Crown, Julien Leparoux, Sports, Horse and Harness Racing, Lasix (drug)
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