Monday, October 22, 2012

PICTURES OF THE DAY

Untouched Talent, the dam of Arkansas Derby Gr. 1 winner and Kentucky Derby and Preakness runner-up Bodemeister will be sold by Audley Farm at the Fasig-Tipton November Sale. (Thoroughbred Daily News Photo)
  The Budweiser Clydesdales at Keeneland.  (Coady Photography/Keeneland)
Jockey Craig Williams on Dunaden celebrates winning the $2.67 million BMW Caulfield Cup at Caulfield Racecourse on October 20, 2012 in Melbourne, Australia. (Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images AsiaPac)
King 9 Stables, Gatewood Bell, Bret Jones and trainer Wesley Ward’s Gypsy Robin ran 12 rivals into the ground as she posted a front-running four-length triumph over Sacristy to win the 14th running of the $250,000 Lexus Raven Run Gr.2 for three-year-old fillies before a Saturday afternoon crowd of 25,287 at Keeneland. (Keeneland Photo)
Jockey Chantal Sutherland, who won her first career race on October 9, 2000 at Woodbine aboard Silver Bounty, announced her retirement on Sunday afternoon following a seventh-place finish aboard Crushin Hard in the Bunty Lawless Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack. Here, Sutherland is winning the Wonder Where Stakes with Awesome Fire at Woodbine in July. (WEG/Michael Byrnes)
Facing older horses for just the second time in his career, Lucy’s Bob Boy ($8.20) reeled off his sixth consecutive victory in the $500,000 West Virginia Breeders’ Classic, the richest race on Saturday night’s card devoted to West Virginia-breds at Charles Town.  Russell Road was second.
Pender Harbour was an impressive repeat winner of Sunday's $126,200 Bunty Lawless Stakes, at Woodbine.  The four-year-old chestnut, trained by Mike De Paulo and once again partnered by regular rider Luis Contreras, captured two-thirds of the Canadian Triple Crown last year en route to being named Canada's outstanding three-year-old horse. (WEG/Michael Byrnes)
Willet, a lightly-raced 4-year-old daughter of Jump Start, left the contentious field of the $150,000 Iroquois Stakes far in the rearview, romping to a 9 1/4-length victory at 8-1 odds. (NYRA Photo)
Grinding Speed winning the $50,000 International Gold Cup from Virginia-bred Aero on Saturday at Great Meadow.  (Douglas Lees Photo)
 A Jack Russell Terrier named Mickey carries his own jockey at the International Gold Cup races. (Tracy A. Woodward/THE WASHINGTON POST)
Tom Queally riding Frankel win The Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot racecourse on October 20, 2012 in Ascot, England. (Tom Dulat/Getty Images)
Tom Queally and Frankel celebrating thier win in the Qipco Champions Stakes on October 20, 2012 in Ascot, England. (Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images)
Broken Dreams and jockey Garrett Gomez, left, outleg Kindle, with Edwin Maldonado, right, to win the Grade III, $100,00 Senator Ken Maddy Stakes horse race, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif. (AP Photo/Benoit Photo)
Ears pricked and cruising comfortably, Hessonite (with Ramon Dominguez up) crossed the wire 3 3/4 lengths ahead of her competition when she successfully defended her Showcase Day Ticonderoga title in the $175,000 race for fillies and mares contested at 1 1/16 mile on Belmont’s Widener turf course. (Jessica Hansen/NYRA Photo)
Lunar Victory and Ramon Dominguez winning the $250,000 Empire Classic, the marquee race of the New York Showcase Day program, Saturay at Belmont Park. (Jessica Hansen/NYRA Photo)


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