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			<title><![CDATA[Plonk: Compulsive competition]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm not sure if Tiger Woods ever set foot at a racetrack in America, or has dabbled online with an exacta or two from Calder.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 10, 2009 14:04:22 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Springboard Mile scouting report]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[With an achievable distance of one mile and a rich, $200,000 purse, the newly renamed Springboard Mile certainly could serve its purpose of springboarding a star 3-year-old to the Triple Crown trail next spring.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 10, 2009 14:27:02 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Plonk: Money and the message]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[You want to cut 30 percent out of your post-race testing budget? Run 30 percent fewer races and make sure the 70 percent you keep are held to the highest standards possible.]]></description>
			<pubDate>December 03, 2009 11:20:46 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Plonk: Three to be thankful for]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving means much more than getting out a nail punch from the tool shed and expanding your leather belt by a notch. It's a time to reflect and appreciate as much as anything; and those of us who work in, and enjoy, the horse racing industry truly have been blessed in 2009.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 23, 2009 09:26:39 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cardinal scouting report]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Nine fillies and mares provide the roll call for this 1 1/8 miles turf test, which carries Grade 3 status and a $100,000 purse.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 20, 2009 12:58:03 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Change hits the Derby trail]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[For me, the annual end of the Breeders' Cup season marks the beginning of the Triple Crown pursuit.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 18, 2009 06:28:27 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Plonk: Cup memories begin and end with Z]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[After 48 hours of reflection, I tried to put the monstrous mare's victory into personal perspective.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 10, 2009 05:41:45 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Plonk: Who's in your saddle?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm not old enough or dumb enough to use words like "ever," but jockeys will play a bigger role in Friday and Saturday's Breeders' Cup World Championships than perhaps any major racing stage of the past few decades.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 02, 2009 11:24:21 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Plonk: The Ambassadors of Dirt]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While it might not sound like much of an upper-level cabinet post, the Ambassadors of Dirt at the 2009 Breeders' Cup World Championships will be the most highly scrutinized politicos in this dog-and-pony show.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 28, 2009 08:12:26 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Study shows no turf edge on synthetics]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It's time to separate the facts and the friction.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 21, 2009 09:14:29 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[QEII Challenge Cup scouting report]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Week-long rains and cool temperatures will certainly play a factor in the turf course condition for this Grade 1 $500,000 event.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 15, 2009 16:08:35 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[It's the surface, stupid]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[If everyone is going to get upset over how skewed last year's results were in a one-year sample, then we should never wish for another Breeders' Cup on a fast dirt track again either.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 14, 2009 05:27:28 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Spinster scouting report]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[There's no shortage of horsepower at Keeneland for Sunday's time-honored Spinster, which attracted 11 distaffers in search of a half-million dollar purse.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 09, 2009 11:30:09 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Plonk: 24 races, 24 more cases]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[This weekend features no less than 24 races to watch, from all corners of America.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 08, 2009 04:56:34 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jockey Club Gold Cup scouting report]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While the Clark Handicap remains on the calendar in Kentucky for this fall, the East Coast's last major race in the handicap division, and more specifically, prep for the Breeders' Cup Classic, comes Saturday in this 1 1/4-miles event.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 02, 2009 14:34:58 PDT EST</pubDate>
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