Saturday marked the last day of the Churchill Downs fall meet, and with it, the award of several titles, including their “Leading Jockey” title. Calvin Borel and Julien Leparoux tied for the rider’s title with 27 victories each. It is the sixth time that Leparoux has won and the third time for Borel. Borel had a great year as he also won the Kentucky Derby and the Oaks as well as winning four of twelve races at Churchill Downs yesterday.

One of those wins was the 2nd race, the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, an almost $200,000 race for 2-year olds. Riding Super Saver, Borel rode the horse over the 1 1-16 mile fast track to finish in 1:42:83, thus beating the record set in 1999 by Captain Steve.

Over 20,000 fans, many of them old-timer thoroughbred handicappers, showed up to celebrate the grand re-opening of Hialeah Saturday. The track re-opened with the start of their quarter horse racing season. Let’s hope this attendance continues, there are a lot of other tracks around the country who would love those numbers.

Florida racing fans rejoice! This weekend, on Saturday, November 28, 2009, Hialeah Park reopens after an eight year hiatus and over sixteen million dollars in renovations to the club house. Hialeah has a full schedule of quarter horse racing planned for this meet which runs through February of 2010.

We wish the best to this beautiful track that has been running horse races for 84 years.

Ending months of speculation, the 2010 Solano County Fair will not feature live horse racing, the fair association announced earlier this month.

The post time schedule changes Thanksgiving Week at Hollywood Park with a shift to afternoon racing on Friday for the remainder of the 27-day Autumn Meet, which concludes Sunday, Dec. 20.

Post time will be at 12:30 p.m. each day with the exception of the traditional 11 a.m. start for Thursday’s Thanksgiving Day program.

Bobby Frankel dead at 68

Five-time Eclipse Top Trainer, Bobby Frankel succumbed to complications of lymphoma and leukemia Monday, November 16, 2009. Mr. Frankel was noted for training winners of almost every major stakes race. The Kentucky Derby managed to elude him his entire career.

Zenyatta Thoroughbred Racehorse of the Year

The undefeated mare, trained by John Shirreffs, was voted #1 in the final NTRA Thoroughbred Poll of 2009 on Saturday, November 7, 2009 (The second day of the 2009 Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita.) The five-year-old won all of her five starts in the 2009 season, winning $3.3 million. She also has a perfect career record of 14 starts and 14 wins, earning well over $5 million for Jerry and Ann Moss, her owners.

Zenyatta is best known for being the first to win two different Breeders’ Cup Races and as the first female to with the Classic.

Rumor has it that she’ll now be retired.

Additionally, Santa Anita is renaming the Lady’s Secret stakes which Zenyatta has won the last two years, as “The Zenyatta” starting with next fall’s running of the stakes race. The race is for fillies and mares ages 3 and up and is run at a distance of 1 1-16 miles.

Twin Sparks, a 6 yr. old gelding by Twining, set a new world record of 1:06.49 for 6-furlongs in winning the $50,000 Caballos del Sol Stakes Saturday November 21, 2009 at Turf Paradise.

The previous world record of 1:06.53 was held by Bob Black Jack and set at Santa Anita on January 26, 2008.

Below is how Twin Sparks looked in the Post Time Daily 2.0 Selections for that race.

Post Time Daily 2.0 Selections

If you are interested in getting the Post Time Daily 2.0 Selections. They  are included with the Post Time Daily 2.0 past performances at no extra charge.

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