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John G. Dooley (born December 21, 1965) is a North American track announcer of Thoroughbred horse racing.Dooley has two positions in the industry as the “voice” of Twin Spires’ Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots in New Orleans, Louisiana from November until March, and at Caesar’s Entertainment’s Horseshoe Indianapolis near Shelbyville, Indiana from April until November.
Purchased by his parents for $300, the California-bred won on the flat and over jumps at Agua Caliente and was a competitive jumper on the U.S. circuit with a third-place finish in the 1946 American Grand National. Adams entered the horse in the Grand National, and was one of 57 starters in the 1947 English Grand National. With Adams up ...
Grand Mo the First is hopeful to enter the Kentucky Derby off a third-place finish in the Grade 1 Florida Derby on March 30. He currently ranks 21st on the Kentucky Derby points leaderboard with ...
The Grand Slam of Thoroughbred racing is an informal name for winning four major Thoroughbred horse races in one season in the United States. The term has been applied to two configurations of races, both of which include the races of the Triple Crown —the Kentucky Derby , Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes —and either the Travers Stakes ...
He also raced beyond Great Britain and Ireland, including finishing runner-up in the Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris and coming fourth in the Colonial Cup in the USA. Captain Christy developed a leg problem after his 1975 King George VI Chase win, which effectively ended his career while still a relatively young horse.
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Now, the nine-year-old enters the 40-horse Grand National with the joint-lowest weight to carry, just 10st 2lb. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. Holiday Shopping Guides.
The two drive the horses down into the deeps of Busiltjörn, and all of the horses swim back to land but a large, young, and handsome gray horse that no one had ever mounted. The grey-bearded old man says that the horse is from "Sleipnir's kin" and that "he must be nourished heedfully, for it will be the best of all horses". The old man vanishes.