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Article: UPI Thoroughbred Racing Roundup.
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- UPI Energy Resources
- Article date:
- October 5, 2009
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If this weekend's two top winners were to join the field for next month's Breeders' Cup Classic, what a race that would be.
In Paris, Sea The Stars continued his historic romp through the European classics with a hard-won victory in Sunday's Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. And in New York, Summer Bird joined a short and distinguished list as he won a hard-fought victory in Saturday's $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup over a sloppy track at Belmont Park.
Summer Bird joins only nine other 3-year-olds in winning the Belmont Stakes, Travers and Gold Cup in the same year -- a list that includes the likes of Man o'War (1920), Twenty Grand (1931), One Count ...
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Article: Summer Bird Displays His Pedigree at Travers
The Washington Post;
August 30, 2009 ;
609 words
... ... of being the best of his generation. Summer Bird will have to settle for being merely ... Saturday at Saratoga. The late-blooming Summer Bird had won the Belmont Stakes in an upset ... Quality Road, finished third. But Summer Bird's performance also underscored just ...
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