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USA, Saturday
Churchill Downs: Grey Goose Breeders' Cup Juvenile (Grade 1) 1m½f, dirt, 2yo
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AMERICA wanted, America expected but America was left disappointed after Union Rags, one of the home team's biggest Breeders' Cup bankers, was denied by inches in his attempt to wrestle the Juvenile from gate-to-wire winner Hansen (Michael Matz/Javier Castellano).
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Union Rags, sent off a heavily backed even-money favourite to extend his unbeaten record to four races, had been one of the back-stretch buzz horses in the build up to Flat racing's world championships, but his attempt to secure a second Breeders' Cup victory for trainer and national hero Michael Matz - who rescued three children following an aircraft crash in 1989 - was foiled in the most agonising fashion
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USA, Saturday
Churchill Downs: Breeders' Cup Mile (Grade 1) 1m, turf, 3yo+
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THE EUROPEANS wanted her to win, the Americans wanted her to win, the whole of the racing world wanted her to win, but one final fairytale proved beyond the great Goldikova, who was forced to concede her Breeders' Cup Mile crown on the final start of her extraordinary racing career.
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I am very happy and very proud - maybe the brooding will come later,"said Goldikova's trainer Freddy Head. "We had a very good run and, for a moment, it looked like she was going to win, but she could not sustain the speed. Maybe the mileage and the years have taken their toll.
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USA, Saturday
Churchill Downs: Breeders' Cup Classic (Grade 1) 1m2f, dirt, 3yo+
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A YEAR after he was beaten at the post on great mare Zenyatta, jockey Mike Smith exorcised the memory of that defeat to claim the Breeders' Cup Classic on Drosselmeyer and deny former girlfriend Chantal Sutherland her own slice of racing history on Game On Dude.
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An already memorable meeting for Aidan O'Brien could not end with a victory for So You Think but he held his own on his dirt debut and was on the quartersof the front-running Game On Dude halfway up the straight and battled hard before crossing the line in sixth.
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Sutherland, so near to becoming the first female jockey to win the Classic, was gracious in defeat if a little galled that the person who beat her was the man who had been her partner for six years until they split in 2010.
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