A full field of 10 state-bred geldings, including past race winners Sea Rescue, Russell Road, and Ghostly Thunder, are set for the featured $500,000 West Virginia Breeders' Classic.
Somali Lemonade wowed a drizzled Keeneland crowd of 8,608 with a sensational late run Thursday in winning the Jessamine Stakes, giving trainer Michael Matz a 2-year-old filly for the Breeders' Cup to go along with his BC Juvenile favorite,
A. U. Miner loses victory after positive drug test
A. U. Miner, who earned a second automatic berth in the Breeders' Cup Marathon by virtue of winning the Greenwood Cup July 16 at Parx Racing, has been disqualified from the first-place purse earned in that victory as a result of a positive drug finding.
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Finley: Dutrow ruling sends a message
Rick Dutrow came into the fall of 2010 with one of the most notorious reputations in the sport and, somehow, managed to take things to a new level.
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