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The 4-year-old filly Randaroo continued her remarkable roll yesterday in the Grade 2, $150,000 Distaff Breeders’ Cup Handicap at the Big A, leading all the way to score by 3½ lengths under Rich ...

Wayne Lukas became the first trainer to win two Cup races on the same day, taking the Juvenile Fillies with Twilight Ridge and the Distaff with Life’s Magic.

Azeri clinched Horse of the Year honors by taking the 2002 Distaff at Arlington Park by five lengths, her seventh victory in a row. She then won her first four starts this year, but the streak was ...

Reporting from Del Mar — It couldn’t touch last year’s running of the Breeders’ Cup Distaff in either excitement or sentimentality, but that didn’t matter to the connections of Forever ...

Throughout history, most spinners have also used a simple device called a distaff. A distaff is a wooden board, sometimes plain but often intricately carved, to which the raw material is tied, and ...

ARCADIA >> Trying to pick the winner of today’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Santa Anita Park is not an easy proposition. Go with one of the top older females like Close Hatches and Belle ...

Twice during the running of the Breeders' Cup Distaff - Presented by Nextel (gr. I), sophomore filly Ashado pushed around older rivals like she was the toughest kid on the playground. But Ashado ...

Owner Aaron Jones wasn’t focusing on the $1.4 million winner’s purse when he shelled out $400,000 to supplement Riboletta to Saturday’s $2.3 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff. Instead ...

The Distaff Gospels, first published in France around 1480, is a collection of “gospels” around pregnancy, childbirth, and health. It was created during secretive meetings of French women who ...