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Apple Blossom Handicap, the Glossary

The Apple Blossom Handicap is a Grade I American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares that are four years old or older, run under handicap conditions over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt track held annually in April at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas.^[1]

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Allen Paulson

Allen Eugene Paulson (April 22, 1922 – July 19, 2000) was an American businessman.

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American Champion Older Dirt Female Horse

The Eclipse Award for Champion Older Dirt Female Horse is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually to a filly or mare, four years old and up, for performances on dirt and main track racing surfaces.

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American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly

The American Champion Three-Year-Old Filly is an American Thoroughbred horse racing honor awarded annually to a female horse in Thoroughbred flat racing.

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American Horse of the Year

The American Award for Horse of the Year, one of the Eclipse Awards, is the highest honor given in American thoroughbred horse racing.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Argentines

Argentines are the people identified with the country of Argentina.

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Arkansas Derby

The Arkansas Derby is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held annually in April at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Apple Blossom Handicap and Arkansas Derby are grade 1 stakes races in the United States, graded stakes races in the United States, horse races in Arkansas and Oaklawn Park.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Azeri (horse)

Azeri (foaled May 6, 1998) is an American Hall of Fame champion thoroughbred racehorse who was 2002 US Horse of the Year and Champion Older Female from 2002 to 2004.

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Azeri Stakes

The Azeri Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares that are four years old or older, over a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt track held annually in March at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Apple Blossom Handicap and Azeri Stakes are graded stakes races in the United States, horse races in Arkansas and mile category horse races for fillies and mares.

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Ángel Cordero Jr.

Ángel Tomás Cordero Jr. (born: November 8, 1942) is one of the leading Thoroughbred horse racing jockeys of the late 20th-century and the first Puerto Rican to be inducted into the United States' Racing Hall of Fame.

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Banshee Breeze

Banshee Breeze (1995–2001) was an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Bayakoa

Bayakoa (October 10, 1984 – June 14, 1997) was a Thoroughbred Champion racehorse bred in Argentina.

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Bob Baffert

Robert A. Baffert (born January 13, 1953) is an American racehorse trainer who is considered one of the most successful and influential trainers in the history of horse racing.

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Bobby Ussery

Robert Nelson Ussery (September 3, 1935 – November 16, 2023) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing hall of fame jockey.

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Bold 'n Determined

Bold 'n Determined (1977–1997), was an American Thoroughbred race horse.

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Breeders' Cup Distaff

The Breeders' Cup Distaff is a Weight for Age Thoroughbred horse race for fillies and mares, three years old and up. Apple Blossom Handicap and Breeders' Cup Distaff are grade 1 stakes races in the United States and mile category horse races for fillies and mares.

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Bruce McNall

Bruce Patrick McNall (born April 17, 1950) is an American former Thoroughbred racehorse owner, sports executive, and convicted felon who once owned the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

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Calvin Borel

Calvin H. Borel (born November 7, 1966) is an American jockey in thoroughbred horse racing and rode the victorious mount in the 2007 Kentucky Derby, the 2009 Kentucky Derby and the 2010 Kentucky Derby.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Carl Nafzger

Carl A. Nafzger (born August 29, 1941) is an American Hall of Fame horse trainer.

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Ce Ce

Ce Ce (foaled March 5, 2016) is an American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse and the winner of the 2020 Apple Blossom Handicap and 2021 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint.

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Charles E. Fipke

Charles Edgar "Chuck" Fipke (born 1946) is a Canadian geologist and prospector who discovered the existence of diamonds around Lac de Gras in Canada's Northwest Territories.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Chris McCarron

Christopher John McCarron (born March 27, 1955, Boston, Massachusetts) is a retired American thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey.

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Claiming race

In Thoroughbred racing, a claiming race is a type of horse race in which the horses are all for sale at a specified claiming price until shortly before the race.

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Clairiere

Clairiere (foaled March 17, 2018) is an American multiple graded stakes winning Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Close Hatches

Close Hatches (foaled January 31, 2010) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Corbin Robertson

Corbin J. Robertson Jr. is an American businessman.

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Courier Journal

The Courier Journal, also known as the Louisville Courier Journal (and informally The C-J or The Courier), and called The Courier-Journal between November 8, 1868, and October 29, 2017, is a daily newspaper published in Louisville, Kentucky and owned by Gannett, which bills it as "Part of the ''USA Today'' Network".

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COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

On December 31, 2019, China announced the discovery of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan.

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D. Wayne Lukas

Darrell Wayne Lukas (born September 2, 1935, in Antigo, Wisconsin) is an American horse trainer and a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee.

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Dallas Stewart

Dallas Stewart (born September 15, 1959, in McComb, Mississippi) trains a string of thoroughbred horses in Kentucky from bases at Churchill Downs, Turfway Park, Keeneland Race Course, Fair Grounds Race Course, Arlington Park and Saratoga Race Course.

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Darley Racing

Darley Racing is a thoroughbred horse racing operations controlled by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Ruler of Dubai and Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates.

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Darrel McHargue

Darrel G. McHargue (born September 26, 1954, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is a retired American Champion jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Donald Brumfield

Donald Alan "Don" Brumfield (born May 24, 1938) is a retired American jockey from Kentucky.

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Donald R. Pierce

Donald R. Pierce (born April 13, 1937) is a retired U.S. Racing Hall of Fame jockey in thoroughbred horse racing.

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Eddie Castro (jockey)

Eddie Castro (born April 10, 1985) is a Panamanian-born jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Eddie Delahoussaye

Edward J. Delahoussaye (born September 21, 1951) is a retired American Thoroughbred jockey from New Iberia, Louisiana.

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Eddie Maple

Edward Retz "Eddie" Maple (born November 8, 1948, in Carrollton, Ohio) is a retired American thoroughbred horse racing jockey.

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Edwin J. Gregson

Edwin Janss Gregson (August 7, 1938 – June 4, 2000) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.

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Escena

Escena (foaled 1993 in Kentucky, died 2015) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse.

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ESPN

ESPN (an abbreviation of its original name, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.

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ESPN.com

ESPN.com is the official website of ESPN.

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Fernando Toro

Fernando Toro (born January 31, 1941, in Santiago, Chile) is a retired US Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse racing jockey about whom Santa Anita Park called one of Southern California's most successful jockeys in the 1970s and '80s.

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Filly

A filly is a female horse that is too young to be called a mare.

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Forever Unbridled

Forever Unbridled (foaled April 24, 2012) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse who was named the Champion Older Mare of 2017 after winning the Fleur de Lis Handicap, Personal Ensign Stakes and Breeders' Cup Distaff.

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Fort Worth Star-Telegram

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is an American daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and Tarrant County, the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex.

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Frank Stronach

Frank Stronach (born 6 September 1932) is an Austro-Canadian billionaire businessman and politician.

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Fred W. Hooper

Fred William Hooper (October 6, 1897 – August 4, 2000) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.

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Gary A. Tanaka

Gary A. Tanaka (born June 23, 1943, in Hunt, Idaho) is an American businessman, convicted securities fraudster, sportsman and philanthropist who co-founded the investment company Amerindo Investment Advisors in 1979 along with Alberto Vilar.

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Gary F. Jones

Gary F. Jones (June 16, 1944 – October 11, 2020) was a trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses whose career began in 1974 and ended with his retirement at the end of July, 1996 having earned $52,672,611 in purses and the winner of 1,465 races including 102 graded stakes.

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Gene Klein

Eugene Victor Klein (January 29, 1921March 12, 1990) was an American businessman who was chairman of the board of directors and chief stockholder of National General Corporation, an insurance and entertainment company based in Los Angeles, California.

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Graded stakes race

A graded stakes race is a thoroughbred horse race in the United States that meets the criteria of the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA).

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Havre de Grace (horse)

Havre de Grace (May 12, 2007 – April 30, 2023) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was bred in Kentucky and was 2011 American Horse of the Year.

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Heavenly Prize

Heavenly Prize (February 17, 1991 – 2013) was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse.

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Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

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Horse trainer

A horse trainer is a person who tends to horses and teaches them different disciplines.

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Hot Springs, Arkansas

Hot Springs is a resort city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Garland County.

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Irad Ortiz Jr.

Irad Ortiz Jr. (born August 11, 1992) is a Puerto Rican jockey who has been a leading rider in the New York Thoroughbred horse racing circuit since 2012.

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J. Larry Jones

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Jack Van Berg

John Charles "Jack" Van Berg (June 7, 1936 in Columbus, Nebraska – December 27, 2017) was an American Hall of Fame horse trainer.

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James D. Nichols

James Dee "Jimmy" Nichols (March 1928 – February 27, 2003) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey and horseman who, after retiring from race-riding, played a key role in the two U.S. Triple Crown race wins of Risen Star.

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Jenny Craig, Inc.

Jenny Craig, Inc., often known simply as Jenny Craig, is an American weight loss, weight management, and nutrition company.

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Jerry Bailey

Jerry D. Bailey (born August 29, 1957 in Dallas, Texas) is an NBC Sports thoroughbred racing analyst and a retired American Hall of Fame jockey.

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Jerry Moss

Jerome Sheldon Moss (May 8, 1935 – August 16, 2023) was an American recording executive, best known for being the co-founder of A&M Records, along with trumpet player and bandleader Herb Alpert.

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Jess Stonestreet Jackson Jr.

Jess Stonestreet Jackson Jr. (February 18, 1930 – April 21, 2011) was an American billionaire wine entrepreneur, lawyer, racehorse owner, and businessman.

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Jockey

A jockey is someone who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession.

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Joel Rosario

Joel Rosario (born January 14, 1985) is a Champion jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing, originally from the Dominican Republic.

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John A. Franks

John Franks (April 21, 1925 - December 31, 2003) was an American businessman and a Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.

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John L. Lively

John L. Lively (born June 18, 1943 in Summers, Arkansas) is a retired American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who won 3,468 career races, including the 1976 Preakness Stakes, as well as ten riding titles at Ak-Sar-Ben Racetrack in Omaha, Nebraska plus two at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas and another at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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John R. Velazquez

John R. Velazquez (born November 24, 1971) is a Puerto Rican jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.

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John Shirreffs

John A. Shirreffs (born June 1, 1945, in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.

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John W. Sadler

John W. Sadler (born July 30, 1956) is an American horse trainer in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Johnny Sellers

Johnny Sellers (July 31, 1937 – July 3, 2010) was an American National Champion jockey.

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Jorge Velásquez

Jorge Velásquez (born December 28, 1946, in Chepo, Panama) is a thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey.

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José Ortiz (jockey)

José L. Ortiz (born October 2, 1993) is a Puerto Rican jockey who has been a rider on the New York Thoroughbred horse racing circuit since 2012.

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Juddmonte

Juddmonte Farms is a horse breeding farm, owned until his death on 12 January 2021 by Prince Khalid bin Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

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Kiaran McLaughlin

Kiaran P. McLaughlin (born November 15, 1960, in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer best known for training 2006 Horse of the Year Invasor.

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Laffit Pincay Jr.

Laffit Alejandro Pincay Jr. (born December 29, 1946, in Panama City, Panama) was once flat racing's winningest all-time jockey, still holding third place many years after his retirement.

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Larry Snyder (jockey)

Larry Lloyd Snyder (June 29, 1942 – October 29, 2018) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey whose career spanned thirty-five years from 1960 to 1994.

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Laura de Seroux

Laura M. de Seroux (born February 9, 1952, in Los Angeles, California) is a retired trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses.

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Letruska

Letruska (foaled May 9, 2016) is a retired American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who first made her reputation in Mexico, where she was named the champion three-year-old filly after winning the Clasico Esmeralda and Clasico Diamante in 2019.

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Lexington Herald-Leader

The Lexington Herald-Leader is a newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and based in Lexington, Kentucky.

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List of American and Canadian Graded races

The list of American and Canadian Graded races is a list of Thoroughbred horse races in the United States and Canada that meet the graded stakes standards maintained by the American Graded Stakes Committee of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association and the Jockey Club of Canada.

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Mare

A mare is an adult female horse or other equine.

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Marion Van Berg

Marion H. Van Berg (January 15, 1896 – May 3, 1971) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.

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Martha F. Gerry

Martha B. Farish Gerry (October 20, 1918 – September 17, 2007) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse owner named an Exemplar of Racing by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

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Martin J. Wygod

Martin J. Wygod (February 1, 1940 – April 11, 2024) was an American businessman and a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder.

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Michael W. McCarthy

Michael W. McCarthy (born February 1, 1971, in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses best known for winning the 2018 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile with City of Light and the 2021 Preakness Stakes with Rombauer. California based, McCarthy worked for trainers Doug Peterson and Ben Cecil as well as Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher with whom he spent eleven years before going out on his own in 2014.

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Midnight Bisou

Midnight Bisou (foaled April 18, 2015) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse who was the Champion Older Female Horse of 2019 after being one of the top-ranked fillies of 2018.

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Mike E. Smith

Michael Earl Smith (born August 10, 1965) is an American jockey who has been one of the leading riders in U.S. Thoroughbred racing since the early 1990s, was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2003 and has won the most Breeders' Cup races of any jockey with 27 victories.

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Mike Luzzi

Michael Jude Luzzi (born October 27, 1969, in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American jockey.

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Neil D. Drysdale

Neil D. Drysdale (born 11 December 1947, Haslemere, Surrey, England) is an American-based thoroughbred race horse trainer.

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North Sider

North Sider (foaled in 1982) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who was voted an Eclipse Award as the American Champion Older Female Horse of 1987.

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Northernette

Northernette (foaled March 4, 1974 – after 1998) was a Canadian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse.

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Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort

Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort, formerly Oaklawn Park Race Track, is an American thoroughbred racetrack and casino in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Apple Blossom Handicap and Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort are Oaklawn Park.

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Ogden Phipps

Ogden Phipps (November 26, 1908 – April 21, 2002) was an American stockbroker, court tennis champion and Hall of Fame member, thoroughbred horse racing executive and owner/breeder, and an art collector and philanthropist.

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On Fire Baby

On Fire Baby (foaled February 23rd, 2009) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse and the winner of the 2014 La Troienne Stakes.

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Paseana

Paseana (August 23, 1987 – June 21, 2006) was an Argentine-bred Thoroughbred racemare who competed very successfully in Argentina and in the United States, where she won 10 Grade 1 races.

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Pat Day

Patrick Alan "Pat" Day (born October 13, 1953, in Brush, Colorado) is a retired American jockey.

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Pat Valenzuela

Patrick Angel Valenzuela (born October 17, 1962, in Montrose, Colorado) is an American thoroughbred horse racing jockey.

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Peter Brant

Peter Mark Brant Sr. (born March 1, 1947) is an American industrialist and art collector.

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Rachel Alexandra

Rachel Alexandra (foaled January 29, 2006) is a retired American Thoroughbred racehorse and the 2009 Horse of the Year.

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Rafael Bejarano

Rafael Bejarano (born June 23, 1982, in Arequipa, Peru) is a champion jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Rajiv Maragh

Rajiv Maragh (born July 9, 1985, in Spanish Town, Jamaica) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Ramon Domínguez

Ramón A. Domínguez (born November 24, 1976, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a retired Eclipse Award-winning champion jockey and Hall of Fame member in American thoroughbred horse racing.

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Rebel Stakes

The Rebel Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses: one and one-sixteenth miles run on dirt each March at Oaklawn Park Race Track in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Apple Blossom Handicap and Rebel Stakes are graded stakes races in the United States, horse races in Arkansas and Oaklawn Park.

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Ricardo Santana Jr.

Ricardo Santana Jr. (born November 19, 1992, in Panama) is a jockey in American Thoroughbred racing who won six consecutive riding titles from 2013 through 2018 at Oaklawn Park and in 2019 won the Breeders' Cup Sprint as well as the Prince of Wales Stakes (2019), the second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown series.

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Robert L. Wheeler

Robert L. Wheeler (June 21, 1920 – April 12, 1992) was American Hall of Fame trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses.

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Ron McAnally

Ronald L. McAnally (born July 11, 1932, in Covington, Kentucky) is an American Hall of Fame trainer in Thoroughbred horse racing.

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Ronald W. Ellis

Ronald W. Ellis (born March 10, 1960, in Glendale, California) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.

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Santa Anita Park

Santa Anita Park is a Thoroughbred racetrack in Arcadia, California, United States.

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Seventh Street (horse)

Seventh Street is a chestnut mare foaled in 2005 out of the sire Street Cry from the Meadowlake dam Holiday Runner, she was bred by Godolphin Stable and is owned by same.

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Shane Sellers

Shane Jude Sellers (born September 24, 1966 in Erath, Louisiana) is an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.

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Shreveport Journal

The Shreveport Journal was an American newspaper originally published by H. P. Benton in Shreveport and Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana.

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Shug McGaughey

Claude R. "Shug" McGaughey III (born January 6, 1951) is an American Hall of Fame thoroughbred horse trainer.

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Sidney Craig

Sidney Harvey Craig (March 22, 1932 – July 21, 2008) was an American businessman who was the business partner and husband of weight-loss entrepreneur Jenny Craig.

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Sol Kumin

Sol Kumin (born 13 May 1975) is an American business leader, Thoroughbred racehorse owner and philanthropist.

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Springfield News-Leader

The Springfield News-Leader is the predominant newspaper for the city of Springfield, Missouri, and covers the Ozarks.

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Spun Sugar

Spun Sugar (foaled January 28, 2002 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred mare racehorse.

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Stellar Wind (horse)

Stellar Wind (foaled February 13, 2012) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse, known for her Eclipse Award winning three-year-old season, and later for her rivalry with the champion mare Beholder.

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Steve Asmussen

Steven Mark Asmussen (born November 18, 1965) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.

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Susan's Girl

Susan's Girl (1969–October 18, 1988) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse, bred and owned by Fred W. Hooper.

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The Cincinnati Enquirer

The Cincinnati Enquirer is a morning daily newspaper published by Gannett in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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The Times (Shreveport, Louisiana)

The Times is a Gannett daily newspaper based in Shreveport, Louisiana.

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Thomas M. Amoss

Thomas M. "Tom" Amoss (born November 17, 1961, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a trainer of Thoroughbred race horses.

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Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed developed for horse racing.

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Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association

The American Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA) based in Lexington, Kentucky is a trade organization for Thoroughbred racehorse owners and breeders. Apple Blossom Handicap and Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association are graded stakes races in the United States.

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Thoroughbred racing

Thoroughbred racing is a sport and industry involving the racing of Thoroughbred horses.

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Todd Pletcher

Todd Pletcher (born June 26, 1967 in Dallas, Texas) is an American thoroughbred horse trainer.

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Track Robbery

Track Robbery (foaled 1976 in Kentucky) was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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References

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1958 establishments in Arkansas

Horse races in Arkansas

Oaklawn Park

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