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NASCAR Nextel Cup driver Kasey Kahne's dirt-track roots run deep, so it was hard to keep the rising NASCAR star from last week's 67th running of USAC's Turkey Night Grand Prix at Irwindale Speedway in California. Wheeling his own Kasey Kahne Racing No. 67 entry, Kahne overcome a sub-par qualifying effort and rallied to finish second among some of U
Curlin wins the Breeders Cup Classic, North America's richest horse race with $5 Million in prize money. Curlin finished the 1 1/4 dirt track event in a time of 2:00:59 four lengths ahead of Hard Spun in second position, with Awesome Gem taking third place nine and half lengths off the lead.
Nine of the 11 Breeders' Cup races during the two-day $23 million spectacular that begins Oct. 26 at Monmouth Park are routes, including four on the turf. During this year's regular 62nd meeting, the longer contests weren't dominated by speed like sprints, but front-runners did well.
U.S Davis cup team may get dirty in 2008. Andy Roddick and his U.S. Davis Cup cohorts will probably face another battle on dirt in Europe after the team was drawn to face Austria on the road in the first round of next year's world group competition....
Monmouth Park, host for the 24th Breeders' Cup, has a reputation of being a fast dirt track. As one racing writer put it two months into this year's 79-day meeting, "Calling it speed-favoring doesn't do it justice and the favorite for the Breeders' Cup Sprint will look more like a top-fuel eliminator."
Cup dirt pudding
