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Grade III Gotham at Aqueduct Gets Derby Contenders on the Right Track

March 6th will offer humanity another race run by these magnificent four-legged mustangs. This race will be in the borough of Queens, New York City near the neighborhood of Ozone Park. This horse race track, called the Aqueduct, opened on Sept. 27th, 1894.

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Earn Free Community Game Points for the World's Best Horse Racing Game - Join Our Writing Staff

Horse Race Game is starting a new program that will reward our players 30,000 community points for each article they write and submit based on certain topics that we request. In order to qualify for the program, you will be required to write one article first - approximately 250 words - on a specific subject. You will also be given three to four keywords that must appear in that article.

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Super Bowl Facts are a must for sports fans who enjoy history making events and heart pounding action!

With the biggest sporting event of the year, Super Bowl XLIV between the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints, to get underway on Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 6:28 PM EDT, it's important to understand that this is the marquee event that leads up to the conclusion of every single NFL season since way back in 1967.

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Should Zenyatta race in 2010 Dubai World Cup or set her sights on Rachel Alexandra at home in the United States?

On January 16 it was announced that rumors of the retirement of the great Zenyatta from horseracing were greatly exaggerated, and that she would be back on the track in the 2010 racing season. It would definitely be an option for this surefire Hall of Fame mare to compete for the $10 million up for grabs in the 2010 Dubai World Cup, the world's richest horserace.

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What was the NTRA horseracing moment of the year? There are many to choose from, but Zenyatta takes the cake!

The NTRA is in the process of conducting it's 11th annual online vote for it's NTRA Moment of the Year for the 2009 racing season. For those interested in voting, you get to vote for one out of 14 images from 2009, each of which represent a great moment.

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Horseracing attendance competed with Major League Baseball at one time

With the proliferation of major sports in the United States in the 21st Century, what with the NFL, NBA, College Basketball, College Football, NASCAR and the like, it might come as a shock to you that horseracing was a major draw in America at one time.

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Ruffian was great, but why is she always called the Best Filly Ever? I object, and passion will surely overrule me!

Let me say in advance of getting to the point of this entry that I expect to be attacked for what I'm going to say here, and it's actually that anticipated passionate response that has motivated me to write this and share my thoughts. Here's my basic question: Just why is it that Ruffian is almost universally declared the greatest filly of all-time?

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A FEMALE Horse of the Year in 2009 at the Eclipse Awards: You can bet the house on it!!!

The 2010 Eclipse Awards will be a historic occasion as they celebrate the accomplishments of the sport of thoroughbred racing in the 2009 horseracing season; they do that every year, but what makes this year so special is that, for one of the very few times in the history of the sport, the top award, Horse of the Year, will be awarded to a female thoroughbred.

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Spectacular Bid was so great that he scared all other horses away; it's like Buster Douglas not showing up against Mike Tyson!

Imagine a figure in sports so fantastic, so much better than the next best opponent, that nobody showed up for the big event!

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An old champion puts a fitting cap on his career: Old Man John Henry at the Meadowlands in 1984!

Ride John Henry in our online racing game, just click here!John Henry had a long and storied career. He did not impress anyone early in his career, and in fact his stock had sunk so low that in his 3-year-old season of 1978 he raced in no less than 5 claiming races.

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