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Hall Of Famers Cordero, Dominguez Signing Autographs On Travers Weekend To Benefit National Museum Of Racing

Hall of Fame jockeys Angel Cordero, Jr. and Ramon Dominguez will be signing autographs to benefit the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame at Saratoga Race Course this weekend at the Museum's satellite location at the track, the former Saratoga Walk of Fame space.

Cordero will be signing on Travers Stakes Day, Saturday, Aug. 26, from noon to 1 p.m., while Dominguez will sign on Sunday, Aug. 27, from noon to 1 p.m.

Renowned artist Greg Montgomery has produced exclusive limited-edition poster prints of Cordero and Dominguez for the signings. Each autographed poster is $20. Any additional items fans would like signed will also be $20 per autograph. The Museum's open-air satellite facility is located behind the grandstand just across the pedestrian path from the Fourstardave Sports Bar. 

Cordero, known as “The King of Saratoga,” was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1988. He won 7,057 races during his career with purse earnings of more than $164 million. Cordero won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in 1982 and 1983. He won the Kentucky Derby three times, the Preakness Stakes twice, and the Belmont Stakes once. A winner of four Breeders' Cup races, Cordero won a record 14 riding titles at Saratoga, including 11 in a row. 

Dominguez, inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016, won 4,985 races in his career with purse earnings of more than $191 million. He won three consecutive Eclipse Awards from 2010 through 2012, leading all North American jockeys in earnings each of those years. A winner of three Breeders' Cup races, Dominguez won 160 graded stakes during his career and earned 20 individual meet riding titles at New York Racing Association tracks. In 2012, he won a record 68 races at Saratoga. 

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Siena Farm’s Anthony Manganaro Passes At 79

Siena Farm co-founder Anthony Manganaro passed away at his home in Saratoga on Sunday, reports the Thoroughbred Daily News. Manganaro, 79, was among the co-owners of Horse of the Year Flightline, Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming, as well as Grade 1 winners Catholic Boy and Dayoutoftheoffice.

An engineering graduate of Northeastern University, Boston, MA., Manganaro sits on its Board of Trustees and received an Honorary Doctor of Public Service degree. In his multi-faceted career, Anthony built Siena Corporation into a successful commercial real estate business in the Baltimore-Washington area, ezStorage Corporation into one of the nation's largest regional self-storage companies and Boston Medical Corporation into the nation's leading distributor of disposable medical supplies.

Manganaro founded Siena Farm in 2007 with partners Nacho Patino and David Pope, a boutique breeding farm that is home to approximately 25 mares.

“Our goal at Siena Farm is simple: breed and raise superior, world-class racehorses by melding hundreds of years of traditional horsemanship with leading-edge technology,” the farm's website states.

Among Siena Farm's homebreds are Grade 1 winner Angela Renee and Grade 2 winner Isabella Sings.

“Anthony was a great partner,” WinStar Farm President and CEO Elliott Walden told TDN. “He had bought in on most of our racehorses over the last few years. He was a man who was never satisfied with the status quo. He always wanted to improve things. He continued to press into difficult issues and that's what I'll remember most about him. He taught me an awful lot. He was a great mentor. The interesting thing about Anthony was, that while he was in his seventies, he was more technologically savvy than most people in their thirties. He continued to look toward the future with a zeal and an energy that made everyone around him better. ”

Read more at the Thoroughbred Daily News.

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Trainer John Servis Celebrates 2,000th Winner At Parx

Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks-winning trainer John Servis celebrated his 2,000th career winner on Monday at Parx Racing in Bensalem, Pa., when Dewey Doit won the first race on the card. Abner Adorno rode the winner in the 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight contest for Pennsylvania-bred 2-year-old fillies.

Best-known for Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Smarty Jones, the 64-year-old Servis grew up in a horse racing family near Charles Town Racetrack in West Virginia. After five years as an assistant trainer Mark Reid, Servis took out his trainer's license in 1984. He trained his first winner that same year, and his first graded stakes win came with multiple Grade 1 winner Jostle in 1999.

It was in 2004 that Servis' career reached national prominence. Under Servis' direction, Smarty Jones won the Derby preps at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas and went on to win the Derby and the Preakness. The colt was on the lead in the stretch of the Belmont Stakes, but Birdstone caught and passed him as they approached the wire.

Servis introduced prominent owner Rick Porter to the sport and trained for him until 2006. The trainer saddled his 1,000th winner on May 1, 2007, at Philadelphia Park.

Servis found himself with another big horse in 2016, when Cathryn Sophia won the Grade 2 Forward Gal Stakes and Grade 2 Davona Dale Stakes by a combined margin of 12 1/2 lengths. After she finished a game third in the Grade 1 Ashland Stakes at Keeneland Race Course, Cathryn Sophia powered to a dominant victory in the $1 million Kentucky Oaks to make her trainer only the seventh active trainer to win both the Kentucky Derby and the Kentucky Oaks.

In 2018 Servis won his first career Breeders' Cup race when 2-year-old filly Jaywalk was victorious in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies.

Other top horses trained by Servis include Zonk, Rockport Harbor and Round Pond.

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Holding On For Dear Life, Abel Lezcano Survives Scary Incident At Hawthorne

Jockey Abel Lezcano

Abel Lezcano put on an incredible show of courage and athleticism at Hawthorne Race Course near Chicago on Sunday, holding on for dear life after his right stirrup broke while he was battling for the lead in the third race aboard the 5-year-old gelding Christmas Present.

The duo started from the No. 1 post position in the one-mile, 70-yard claiming race on the main track, with Christmas Present taking the early advantage on his rivals. As Christmas Present rounded the clubhouse turn into the backstretch while engaged with Blooming Garden for the lead, Lezcano virtually disappeared from the camera view after the right stirrup suddenly gave out.

The next day, Lezcano told the Paulick Report he heard a loud snap, and suddenly his right foot was without a stirrup, adding that he had just purchased the equipment. The stirrup, he said, was made from a carbon material.

Track announcer Peter Galassi was momentarily confused, not sure if Lezcano had been thrown from the mount, but then saying “the rider is out of the saddle but is still with the horse… a little confusing there, didn't see him. Thought he was off, but he was on. … Just a tremendous job by Abel Lezcano to keep aboard that horse.”

The head-on patrol films showed Lezcano, pitched onto the right side of his mount, clinging onto the neck of Christmas Present, who continued to run at full speed. For more than 10 seconds, Lezcano struggled to get back atop the horse, finally pulling himself back aboard Christmas Present, who gradually dropped back while racing close to the rail.

Lezcano continued his way around the course riding bareback style, his legs wrapped around the horse, until an outrider caught up with him as he trailed the field down the stretch.

Lezcano may have been shaken by the incident, but he came back to ride the next four races on Sunday's card, going out a winner in the seventh-race finale with a stretch-running victory aboard Maneuver.

 

On Sunday night, Lezcano posted the following message on the social media site formerly known as Twitter:

A 33-year-old native of Panama, Lezcano has won 448 races since coming to the U.S. in 2009. One of those victories was aboard Nancy From Nairobi in the Grade 2 Royal Heroine Stakes at Santa Anita in 2016.

A similar incident occurred at Golden Gate Fields in 1989 when jockey Nate Hubbard was unseated after his mount Sweetwater Oak stumbled in deep stretch on a muddy track. Hubbard hung on to the mare's neck for the final dozen strides and won a photo finish for second. Because Hubbard did not touch the ground while dangling from Sweetwater Oak's neck, no rules were violated and the result was allowed to stand.

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