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billrock
08-18-2007, 03:00 AM
On this date in 1961 trainer Dale Baird saddled his first winner, New York, at Ellis Park.

On this date in 2002 Sunday Silence, the 1989 Horse of the Year who later became a perennial leading sire in Japan, died after suffering a fatal heart attack at the Shadai Stallion Station on the isle of Hokkaido in Japan.

On this date in 2006 Emantee, with George Brennan in the bike, won the Helen Smith Memorial at Freehold in 1:57.2.:)