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Breeders’ Cup Archive

When it comes to drug testing and monitoring, the Breeders’ Cup has the resources and the will to enforce a standard that few tracks can. “Ironically, the integrity of the event produces even more cynicism among America’s already cynical racing fans.” (Washington Post)

The two New Yorkers are coupled in a head-to-head proposition bet, one of the many offered by Lone Star Park on this Saturday’s races. “The pair of them going mano-a-mano is likely to start arguments on the streets of Manhattan or fistfights in a Long Island saloon, but there’s some question as to what controversy it is apt to produce in Grand Prairie, Texas. It’s sort of like waiting 40 years to see the Yankees hook up with the Mets, only to play the Subway Series in El Paso.” (Boston Herald)
Related: “Head2Head wager offers new twist this year” (Blood-Horse)

“Take a generous helping of Annika Sorenstam testing her mettle against the men of the PGA, season with Ali vs. Frazier in the ‘Thrilla in Manila’ and you have the makings of Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Classic: a cross-gender slugfest pitting the great mare Azeri against a dozen of the toughest, orneriest male horses in the land.” (MSNBC)
Related: “Add Bobby Frankel to the list of skeptics who doubt Azeri belongs in the $4 million Breeders’ Cup Classic. The only way she could beat the boys, Frankel said, is if ‘the gates don’t open for the rest of the horses.'” (San Francisco Chronicle)
Trainer Patrick Biancone isn’t one of the skeptics: “I think the shock to people is going to be when she wins,” he said. (New York Daily News)

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