Megan Jones struck gold with her first Valor Ladies LLC runner Tuttipaesi, yet the Team Valor customer relations director waited 10 months before dipping a toe in the water for the second purchase. The wait ended over the weekend.
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John Velazquez will ride his Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom when the recent Dubai World Cup hero makes his career finale at the mid-June Royal Ascot meeting in England.
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A royal stage and a starring role await Animal Kingdom for his potential racing farewell, as the Kentucky Derby and Dubai World Cup hero has been nominated for the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes on June 18 and Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes on June 19 at Royal Ascot.
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Team Valor International is pleased to announce Bill Plaschke, Billy Reed, Jeff Siegel and Ray Kerrison as the judges for the second annual Stan Bergstein Writing Award.
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Triple Threat put himself squarely in the picture for the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club-French Derby, this afternoon with an impressive triumph in the Group 3 Prix La Force at Longchamp. One of a pair of Group winners on the card today sired by deceased Monsun, he races in Team Valor International CEO Barry Irwin’s personal silks. He was bred by Irwin in partnership with MGM CEO Gary Barber of Los Angeles, California.
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Team Valor International has hired Rick Mettee to train all of its North American-based racehorses, effective May 1. Graham Motion will continue to train Animal Kingdom.
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In dominating the world’s richest race, Animal Kingdom cleared up any doubt of his sensational talent and punctuated one of the most unique profiles in American racing history.
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Crop Report was the latest Team Valor colt to rise to the occasion on the Turfway Polytrack, rallying from 10 lengths back early for an impressive win in Saturday’s $75,000 Rushaway Stakes, which happened to be sponsored by the stable for the first time.
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Team Valor International will present the second annual Stan Bergstein Writing Award at the 2013 Global Symposium on Racing & Gaming this December in Tucson under an agreement with the University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program.
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Beyond the horses, Team Valor International is blessed with strong human pedigrees that have linked a love for racing through multiple generations. Two of Animal Kingdom’s partners, Dave Dillon and Tom Furey, are prime examples.
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After re-writing the Olympic record books for swimming, Michael Phelps and his long-time coach may have the Kentucky Derby in their sights with a 3-year-old colt named Cerro who won a race at Gulfstream Park on Saturday for Team Valor International.
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Team Valor International, riding back-to-back wins in the Spiral Stakes on the road to the Kentucky Derby, has joined forces with Turfway Park to restore the Rushaway Stakes to the Spiral undercard on March 23.
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James Leonard, a loyal supporter of Team Valor’s racing interests in South Africa, scored a valuable victory in the stable’s annual contest for active partners.
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Tuttipaesi carried the Valor Ladies colors straight into the Gulfstream Park winner’s circle in a big splash for the filly and for the new female-focused partnership, appropriately enough on New Year’s Day.
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