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			<title><![CDATA[Buddy's Saint sure looks like Derby prospect]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Buddy's Saint stamped himself as a legitimate contender for next year's Kentucky Derby with a stylish-looking 4 3/4-length victory in Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 28, 2009 11:25:49 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rachel Alexandra arrives at Fair Grounds]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rachel Alexandra arrived by van at the Fair Grounds late Friday afternoon, joining the rest of Steve Asmussen's string in New Orleans. Rachel Alexandra had been headquartered in Assmussen's barn at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 27, 2009 17:38:32 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Star filly Rachel Alexandra returns to training]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rachel Alexandra, the superstar filly who has been taking it easy on the Churchill Downs backstretch for the last seven weeks, has returned to the racetrack for the first time since arriving here Oct. 7 from Saratoga.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 24, 2009 09:18:59 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[Finley: That's why it's Horse of YEAR]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The divisive debate over Horse of the Year honors is not entirely about Rachel Alexandra versus Zenyatta, who the better horse is, or East versus West.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 20, 2009 12:51:22 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Giving safer whips a crack]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Turning for home in the Woodward Stakes on Sept. 5 at Saratoga, Calvin Borel had the lead riding Rachel Alexandra. She already had turned back foes hounding her during the first two-thirds of the Woodward. Now the closers were on the hunt.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 19, 2009 08:58:00 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[Novak: Zenyatta a display of greatness in Classic]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It was what she did and how she did it that will have them talking for ages to come, for Zenyatta annihilated the Classic field.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 07, 2009 16:46:32 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Finley: Horse of the Year? It's still Rachel]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[There will not, of course, be two Horses of the Year or any sharing of the award. There can be only one, and that one is Rachel Alexandra.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 07, 2009 14:49:05 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Some major stars absent from BC Classic field]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Breeders' Cup was designed to showcase the sport's best runners and decide year-end championships, and even in its current 14-race format, it has been a great success over its 26-year run.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 05, 2009 12:05:12 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Anticipation]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[...Cup I'll be doing pretty much the same thing I did for the Kentucky Derby and Preakness and Belmont - just sharing my thoughts and observations with you about the horses and the races in...]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 03, 2009 11:09:53 PST EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Breeders' Cup to make or break Baffert's meet]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Trainer Bob Baffert swept the first four races at Santa Anita on Sunday, the first time in his career that he could recall saddling four consecutive winners on the same day.]]></description>
			<pubDate>November 02, 2009 14:05:50 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[Moran: Ladies' Classic good spot for Zenyatta]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The question of Zenyatta's assignment on the first weekend of November has moved to the front burner of the autumn's racing debate.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 19, 2009 08:26:48 PDT EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Owner says Rachel Alexandra is done for '09]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Star filly Rachel Alexandra is finished racing for the year.]]></description>
			<pubDate>October 09, 2009 09:04:21 PDT EST</pubDate>
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