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  Champagne Stakes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Champagne Stakes (Australia), a horse race held at Randwick Racecourse in Australia
Champagne Stakes (UK), a horse race held at Doncaster Racecourse in the United Kingdom
Champagne Stakes (USA), a horse race held at Belmont Park in the United States
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Champagne_Stakes   (109 words)

  
 Racing and Sports Mini Site - 2006 AJC Tooheys New Easter Carnival (RacingandSports.com.au)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Cummings poised to pop Champagne: Bart Cummings is happy with his decision to miss the Sires' Produce Stakes with Empires Choice ahead of Saturday's Group One Champagne Stakes at Randwick.
Champagne Gear Change For Miss Finland: Trainer David Hayes has made a successful application to remove blinkers from Golden Slipper Stakes winner Miss Finland in the $450,000 Champagne Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.
Virage De Fortune on track for TJ Smith: Australia Stakes winner Virage De Fortune is due to arrive in Sydney for a hit-and-run mission on the Group One TJ Smith (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday.
www.aapracingandsports.com.au /features.asp?f=ajcec06-champagne2006   (3160 words)

  
 Champagne Stakes (USA) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Champagne Stakes is a Grade I horse race in the United States for two-year-old thoroughbred colts and geldings.
The race is run at a distance of one mile on the dirt at Belmont Park in October each year and is arguably the biggest race of the year in its category—excepting the Breeders' Cup Juvenile for which the Champagne is a major prep.
The current purse for the race is $400,000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Champagne_Stakes(USA)   (218 words)

  
 Detroit Free Press - Scoreboard
The second at 4-1 is Sense of Style, winner of the Matron Stakes at Belmont Park.
Norfolk Stakes Romas Ruler is the 2-1 favorite for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, according to the Daily Racing Form.
Proud Accolade, the winner of the Champagne Stakes, is the 5-2 second choice and Hopeful Stakes winner is the 7-2 third choice.
www.sportsnetwork.com /default.asp?c=freep&page=horse/news/BJN3559193.htm   (513 words)

  
 champagne lady   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Champagne Victor, a leading brand of the Historic Wine Company, which is owned by Victor Lanson, continues Goodwood s 28-year association with the Lanson family as it adds its name for the first time to the 50,000 Group Three CHAMPAGNE VICTOR VINTAGE STAKES 2.45pm over seven furlongs.
Blue Gown, schooled by trainer John Porter, was a decent two year old, winning the Sunning Hill Stakes, the Fernhill Stakes, and Newmarket s Clearwell Stakes, the latter in a canter; he also won Doncaster s Champagne Stakes, but was disqualified for undeclared weight, and ran third in the Weston Stakes.
He easily won the Craven Stakes and the 2,000 Guineas at age three, ran third to Orby in the Derby, and then won the St. James s Palace Stakes at Ascot, after which he was sold to Hungarian sportsman Mikos de Szemere; soon thereafter...
www.champagne.gb.com /champagne_lady.asp   (853 words)

  
 Champagne Stakes
Celtic Pride Stable's THE GROOM IS RED (Runaway Groom) showed that the Belmont Park speed bias could be broken when he came from the back of the pack on Saturday to take the 127th running of the Champagne S. (G1) by 2 3/4 lengths under jockey Corey Nakatani.
While notching his first stakes score, the two-year-old Nick Zito trainee picked up $240,000 of the $400,000 pot and sent his earnings skyrocketing to $290,500.
As for (Saturday's) race, I told (owner) Rick (Pitino) before the race that the last thing we want to do is change the game plan for this horse just because of the track condition.
members.tripod.com /~TripleCrown99/stakes/champagne.html   (769 words)

  
 Champagne Bottle Secrets - Champagne Bottle Portal
Oxidation as a result of this, and that champagne from a giant bottle is inferior to that from the magnum it was.
A TOTAL of 66 entries were left in at the latest forfeit stage for the pounds 120,000 Group Two Champagne Stakes at Doncaster on 12 September.
In 1998, we shipped almost 17 million bottles of champagne to the U.S. Carbonnier The millennium is important, but it is not the only factor that has contributed to the increased shipments of champagne that we have seen recently.
www.champagne-bubbles.info /champagne-bottle.html   (1074 words)

  
 Detroit Free Press - Scoreboard
Breeders' Cup Juvenile runner-up Afleet Alex and Nashua Stakes winner Rockport Harbor are both expected to run in the three-year-old stakes races at Oaklawn Park.
Afleet Alex has a pair of stakes wins this year for owner Cash is King Stable.
He finished a close second in the Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park on his way to the breeders' Cup Juvenile.
www.sportsnetwork.com /default.asp?c=freep&page=horse/news/BJN3583525.htm   (287 words)

  
 Afleet Alex Looks to Remain Unbeaten in Champagne - bloodhorse.com
The son of Northern Afleet has been impressive in four trips to the post in 2004, coming on with a flurry in the Hopeful after early trouble to clip Devil's Disciple by a neck at the wire.
His wins have come by a combined total of almost 29 lengths, and his first attempt at the 1 1/16-miles distance in the Champagne seems not to be an issue as he breezed a mile in 1:37 3/5 for conditioner Tim Ritchie Sept. 22 at Delaware Park.
The Champagne will mark the first entrance into stakes company for the Padua Stables up-and-comer, who was bred in Florida by Mario Montanari.
racing.bloodhorse.com /viewstory.asp?id=24701   (548 words)

  
 Classic Spotlight | First Samurai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
I) at Saratoga and the Champagne Stakes (gr.
He is the second foal of his dam, Freddie Frisson, a two-time listed stakes winner by 2004 leading broodmare sire Dixieland Band.
North of Venus doubtless drew at least a little of her talent from her dam, Fly by Venus (by Dark Star), a solid midwestern stakes winner and a half-sister to Green Dolphin, third dam of two-time champion sprinter Housebuster.
tcm.bloodhorse.com /FirstSamuraiSpotlight.asp   (1036 words)

  
 2004 Champagne Stakes
Proud Accolade in the winner's circle after the Champagne.
The best juvenile colts of the east went to post in the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes, a $500,000 event over 1 1/16 miles at Belmont Park.
As expected, Afleet Alex was sent off as the 5-4 favorite in the field of eight, with Proud Accolade the 5-2 second choice.
www.horse-races.net /library/cham04-results.htm   (531 words)

  
 champagne history
She won her first two juvenile races, the Woodcote Stakes and July Stakes at Newmarket, easily, but placed third in the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster in the fall.
She ran fourth to Ard Patrick in the Derby Stakes, but easily came back the next day to win the Oaks, and in the fall soundly defeated...
After only three starts including the Champagne Stakes in the space of 27 days, Seattle Slew was voted champion two-year-old colt for 1976.
www.champagne.gb.com /champagne_history.asp?start=111   (868 words)

  
 Welcome!
Stakes wins in 11/16 mile Indiana Derby and the 1 mile Sir Beaufort Stakes on turf.
Stakes Winner on dirt and turf, from 6 furlongs to 1 1/16 mile.
Strategic Mission is a Graded Stakes Winner, and is a half-brother to two Graded Stakes Winners, Sultry Song (sire) and Solar Splendor.
www.gainesway.com /stallions/listOfStallions/default.asp   (872 words)

  
 Welcome to the National HBPA
Trainer Bobby Barbara's decision to bypass an allowance race and enter Laurafina in a stakes race following a five-month layoff proved to be a profitable one as the game three-year-old daughter of Cozzene made a commanding charge from ninth to win the $100,000 Frances A. Genter Stakes (G3) on Saturday at Calder Race Course.
Advancing with precision, Laurafina bore out into the stretch of the 7 1/2-furlong race and blazed past Champagne Ending to score a three-quarter-length tally in 1:27.07 over a firm course for her first stakes triumph.
Barbara was pleased with Laurafina's return to action and initial stakes win after being sidelined with a soft tissue injury following her sixth-place finish in the Lake George Stakes (G3) on July 29 at Saratoga Race Course.
www.hbpa.org /NewsDisplay.asp?STORYID=6389   (439 words)

  
 Easy Print from BloodHorse.com
The 132nd Champagne is one of four graded stakes on a 10-race card, that also includes the grade I Beldame, the grade I Frizette and the grade II Kelso Breeders' Cup.
The Champagne drew a field of eight led by Chapel Royal, Read the Footnotes and Birdstone.
The $500,000 Champagne Stakes is open to 2-year-olds; all will carry 122 pounds.
www.bloodhorse.com /viewstory_plain.asp?id=18346   (730 words)

  
 Champagne Stakes - NTRA
Zito won three consecutive Champagnes from 1998-2000, with The Groom Is Red, Greenwood Lake, and AP Valentine.
Saturday, Zito will be represented in the Champagne with Superfly, who is a useable longshot in the race.
Superfly competed in two of the better maiden races at Saratoga, finishing third, beaten three-quarters of a length by Grand Survival, and second, beaten 3 1/2 lengths by Discreet Cat, who ran the most impressive maiden race of the summer at the Spa.
www.ntraracing.com /Races.aspx?id=15129   (345 words)

  
 Stockwell
At the same meeting walked-over for a 300 sovs sweep and also won the £600 Racing Stakes Handicap there, beating Maidstone "in a canter, by two lengths," Father Thames and Lord Eglinton's Lucio (bl c Faugh-a-Ballagh).
Bred by Mark Pearson, she won the Woodcote Stakes, New Stakes, July Stakes, Chesterfield Stakes, Criterion Stakes, Lavant Stakes, Champagne Stakes, One Thousand Guineas Stakes, Coronation Stakes, Great Yorkshire Stakes, St. Leger Stakes, and the Doncaster Cup.
Bred by James Cookson, she ran for four years, and won the Oaks Stakes, the Edinburgh Cup, nine Queen's Plates and placed 2nd in the St. Leger Stakes.
www.bloodlines.net /TB/Bios/Stockwell.htm   (1171 words)

  
 Thoroughbred Times: Today's News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The $500,000 Champagne Stakes (G1) on Saturday at Belmont Park features a rematch of graded-stakes winning rivals First Samurai and Henny Hughes, two of the top two-year-old colts to emerge this fall as contenders for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) on October 29.
The Champagne, which helped vault champion two-year-olds Timber Country (1994), Dehere ('93), and Fly So Free ('90) to Eclipse Awards, figures to wield extra weight in the juvenile division this year with the Elmont, New York, track, hosting the Breeders' Cup.
The one-mile Champagne also will provide a last-minute opportunity for promising juveniles to announce their presence in the division and possibly stamp their ticket to the Juvenile.
www.thoroughbredtimes.com /todaysnews/newsview.asp?recno=58028&subsec=2   (510 words)

  
 Krystal Champagne Web-Site | Krystal Champagne Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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Barefoot Bubbly Extra Dry California Champagne and Chardonnay are both available nationally in the 750 ml size and have a suggested retail of 6.99 in California.
Reidel has released yet another millennium crystal champagne flute glass, the third in a series of six limited edition flutes made for celebrating the next 1,000 years.
www.bubbly-to-go.com /krystal-champagne.html   (805 words)

  
 Belmont Update
Trainer Nick Zito continues to be confident his two Belmont Stakes prospects - Royal Assault and Birdstone - will give a good accounting of themselves during Saturday's 136th running of the third jewel in the Visa Triple Crown.
Birdstone, who won last year's Grade I Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park and is one of the few 2-year-old stars who is still running, will be vanned to Zito's Belmont Park barn after training hours on Wednesday.
Belmont Stakes longshot Caiman arrived in town last night and was bedded down in barn 5.
www.horse-races.net /library/belupd-060104.htm   (907 words)

  
 Krug Champagne Pewter Update | Krug Champagne Pewter Web-Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The most successful champagne bars tend to be lounges, with an upscale and romantic atmosphere, That upscale atmosphere, however, is also a comfortable one.
If current conditions, of the financial and champagne markets, continue next year, one can only wonder what justification the government finds in maintaining interest rates at near 16 while exchange rates with important export markets are putting a big squeeze on France and, indeed, several important countries have, effectively, devalued their currencies by 15.
According to the Comit Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne CIVC, the demand recovery was strongest outside the European Union, with shipments to the US up 15.9 in the nine months to the end of September.
www.bubbly-to-go.com /krug-champagne-pewter.html   (1191 words)

  
 Stop the Music, Sire of 44 Stakes Winners, Dies at 35 - bloodhorse.com
Stop the Music (Hail to Reason-Bebopper), a grade II winner and two-time Belmont Park recorder setter, had the misfortune of being born in the same year as Secretariat and Forego.
II), the Saratoga Special Stakes, and the Champagne Stakes (over the disqualified Secretariat), and placed behind Secretariat in the Laurel Futurity and the Futurity Stakes, and behind Forego in the Carter Handicap (gr.
He was a competitive contender in many grade I races including the Travers, Met Mile, and the Brooklyn Handicap where he placed.
breeding.bloodhorse.com /viewstory.asp?id=29055   (251 words)

  
 Pletcher Sending Ocean Drive to Matriarch - bloodhorse.com
IIIT) on Nov. 27 and Paddy's Daisy for the $100,000 Miesque Stakes (gr.
Ocean Drive, a multiple graded stakes winner, seeks her first grade I victory in the one-mile Matrairch for fillies and mares on turf.
Paddy's Daisy seeks her third straight stakes victory in the Miesque for 2-year-old fillies at one mile.
news.bloodhorse.com /viewstory.asp?id=25480   (524 words)

  
 Easy Print from BloodHorse.com
An overflow field of 16 passed the entry box for the 12th running of the Pete Axthelm Stakes Saturday to be contested over 7 1/2 furlongs on the turf at Calder Race Course.
Team Block's Illinois homebred Fort Prado has a pair of statebred stakes to his credit this year at Arlington Park and appears to be one to reckon with heading out of post 7.
By Formal Gold, Caballero Negro captured the Silver Season Stakes at seven furlongs on the main track at Calder Aug. 7, and was just ahead of Wire Bound in the Calder Derby while third.
www.bloodhorse.com /viewstory_plain.asp?id=25735   (502 words)

  
 Champagne ~ Secretariat.com
The two-year-old finale of the New York racing season came at Belmont in the Champagne Stakes in mid-October.
It was the 101st running of the famous race, and proved to be one of its most memorable.
A large field of 12 colts was entered for the one-mile Champagne, including: Secretariat; his old rivals Stop the Music and Linda's Chief; and a previously unheralded stablemate of Secretariat's named Angle Light.
www.secretariat.com /races/Champagne.htm   (564 words)

  
 Stone Farm: 2004 News
The Belmont Stakes (G1) is a glaring omission from Hancock’s win list that he hopes to address on Saturday with homebred Sir Barton Stakes winner Pinpoint.
HOMEBRED Pinpoint, winner of the Sir Barton Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on the Preakness Stakes (G1) undercard, turned in a seven-furlong workout on Thursday morning at Saratoga Race Course’s Oklahoma Training Track in preparation for a start in the Belmont Stakes (G1) on June 11.
Zito took a similar training approach to the Belmont Stakes with Birdstone last year, but the recently elected Hall of Fame trainer was short of completely committing to the start.
www.stonefarm.com /news.html   (1080 words)

  
 The Jockey Club: Dedicated to the Improvement of Thoroughbred Breeding and Racing Since 1894
Eligible for weighting were all two-year-olds of 2004 that finished among the top four in graded or other unrestricted races with an added-value of at least $75,000 or higher, run in the continental United States.
At 123 pounds are Padua Stable’s Proud Accolade (Yes It’s True — Proud Ciel, by Septieme Ciel), winner of the Champagne Stakes and $364,130, and Tracy Farmer’s Sun King (Charismatic — Clever But Costly, by Clever Trick), third in both the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and Champagne Stakes with earnings of $244,850.
She was runner-up in both the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies and the Matron Stakes.
www.jockeyclub.com /mediaCenter.asp?story=181   (715 words)

  
 ABC News: First Samurai Wins Champagne Stakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Taking the lead from rival Henny Hughes in the stretch, First Samurai pulled off to a 2 3/4-length victory in the $500,000 Champagne Stakes on Saturday at rain-drenched Belmont Park.
The 2-year-old colt's win improved his perfect mark to 4-for-4 and firmly established First Samurai as the favorite for the $1.5 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Belmont on Oct. 29.
First Samurai beat Henny Hughes in the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga in his previous start, and it looks like the colts are set for a third meeting in the BC Juvenile that could determine the 2-year-old champion.
abcnews.go.com /Sports/wireStory?id=1196201&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312   (413 words)

  
 Noholme II
At two he was unplaced in the prestigious Golden Slipper Stakes, but followed with a win in the Champagne Stakes at Randwick, and was ranked sixth on the two-year old Free Handicap.
Among his current representatives on the track are the European star General Holme and three-year-old stakes winners Noble Home and Jeff's Companion.
His son Nodouble was the leading sire in North America in 1981 by progeny earnings, and his 16 stakes winners that year established a record for number of stakes winners in one year, which was equaled by Roberto last year.
www.secondrunning.com /Noholme%20II.htm   (706 words)

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