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Dick Jerardi has been at the Daily News since 1985. Lead college basketball and horse racing writer. Write two columns per week during basketball season. Covered 14 Final Fours, every Triple Crown race since 1987 and every Breeders' Cup race since 1986. Have covered events as varied as the Summer Olympics, the NBA Finals, American League playoffs, NFL playoffs and the Rose Bowl. Write columns, features, game stories and takeouts on topics ranging from how the football betting line is formed to a portrait of the jockey who rode Secretariat.
 
Posted 07/05/2008
A LOOK AT important races around the country today: Vanity Handicap Hollywood Park (Race 5) - Post 5:00 p.m., Grade I $300,000, 1 1/8 miles, 3YO & up
Posted 06/28/2008
A LOOK AT the important races around the country today: Donald Levine Memorial Handicap Philadelphia Park (Race 8) - Post 3:22 p.m. $200,000, 7 fur., 3YO and up
CLIP THIS AND SAVE. Right or wrong, I will be accountable. My draft board was: 1, Michael Beasley (Kansas State); 2, Derrick Rose (Memphis); 3, Kevin Love (UCLA); 4, Brandon Rush (Kansas).
A LOOK AT the important races around the country today: Vincent Moscarelli Memorial Delaware Park (Race 7) - Post 3:27 p.m., $75,000, 6 fur., 3YO & up
THERE ARE THREE critical questions as the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection holds hearings on medication and breakdowns in horse racing this morning in Washington: Will anyone asking the questions really understand the complex
A LOOK AT the important races around the country today: The Jostle Philadelphia Park (Race 9) - Post 3:50 p.m. $200,000, 6 1/2 furlongs, 3YO fillies
ELMONT, N.Y. - Standing by himself, the sweat having turned his blue shirt into one large stain, leaning over a wooden railing, as the colt he trained to win the Kentucky Derby and Preakness slowly walked around the detention barn at old Belmont Park early Saturday evening, Rick Dutrow was the bozo on the plank over the dunk tank. Everybody - other trainers, media, gamblers who bet $6.5 million to win on Big Brown in the Belmont Stakes - wanted to be the first to fire something, anything at the trainer.
A LOOK AT the important races at Belmont Park today: True North Handicap Belmont Park (Race 6) - post 2:56, Grade II, $250,000, 6 furlongs, 3YOs and up
WHEN THOSE SIX horses went for the Triple Crown between 1997 and 2004, there was hardly a discouraging word. Just about everybody, in and out of the sport, wanted to see the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner get the Belmont Stakes.
A LOOK AT some of the important races around the country today: The Dogwood Churchill Downs (Race 8) - Post 4:49, Grade III, $100,000, 1 mile, 3-year-old fillies
A LOOK AT some of the important races around the country today: The My Juliet Philadelphia Park Race 9 - Post 3:50 p.m., $250,000, 6 furlongs, 3YO & up, fillies & mares
BALTIMORE - A look at some of the important races at Pimlico Race Course today: Galorette Handicap Race 6 - Post 1:24 p.m., Grade III, $100,000, 1-1/16 miles, 3YO & up, fillies & mares
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