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Tag: Horse racing

Minnesotan is first full-time female thoroughbred track announcer

Bob Collins May 2, 2016, 1:18 PM May 2, 2016

Angela Hermann started working as an usher at Canterbury Park when she was 17 and most recently has been a substitute announcer and analyst. Read more →

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Sore-loser horse owner ruins Triple Crown moment

Bob Collins June 9, 2014, 7:34 AM Jun 9, 2014

For a guy who was put on a pedestal in the last month, the co-owner of California Chrome spit the bit after his horse ran out of gas in the third leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown on Saturday.
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