Fasig-Tipton
Kentucky Fall 2007 Yearling Sale $9,500
Mine That Bird was bought for just
$9,500 (US) by owner/trainer Dave Cotey on behalf of his Dominion
Bloodstock and Derek Ball and Hugh Galbreath and was named champion
2-year-old male. Cotey and company watched Mine That Bird win three
stakes races including the Grey Breeders’ Cup Stakes (Can-III). Mine
That Bird was sold privately to Double Eagle Farm before finishing 12th
in the Bessemer Trust Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I) at Santa Anita. The
gelding is from the first crop of Birdstone , out of the Mining mare
Mining My Own. |
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Bird
swoops to victory in Silver Deputy
posted by
Brisnet Editorial on August 23, 2008
Dominion Bloodstock et al's MINE THAT BIRD (Birdstone)
upset the $95,751 Silver Deputy S. for two-year-olds at 10-1, becoming
the first stakes winner for his freshman sire. The bay gelding rolled
from well off the pace to score by two lengths.
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Mine
That Bird scores by a neck in Swynford
posted by
Brisnet Editorial on
September 14, 2008
Dominion Bloodstock et al's MINE
THAT BIRD (Birdstone) prevailed by a neck in the $146,120 Swynford S.
for two-year-olds, collaring Win and Reign (Tomahawk) in the final
strides.
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Juveniles Star in Grey, Mazarine Stakes
By Jack Shinar - October 5, 2008
Two-year-olds take the spotlight Oct. 5 when
Woodbine presents the Grey Stakes and the Mazarine Stakes, a pair of
grade III events worth $250,000 apiece at 1 1/16 miles on the Polytrack
racing surface.
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Grey Win 4th Straight for Mine That Bird
By Jack Shinar - October 7, 2008
Trained by David Cotey, the Birdstone gelding has
now won three stakes in a row, all over the Woodbine Polytrack racing
surface.
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Scorewithcater invades Sunland for Borderland
By Jeff Taylor -
The Daily Racing
Form 2/26/2009
Scorewithcater leads a strong contingent of
invaders into New Mexico for Saturday's $100,000 Borderland Derby at
Sunland Park. The 1 1/16-mile test serves as the prep for the $800,000
Sunland Derby on March 29.Trainer Doug O'Neill claimed Scorewithcater
for himself and Robert Master out of a $40,000 maiden claiming race at
Hollywood Park on Nov. 20. Scorewithcater won his first start for his
new connections in a starter allowance in December. Most recently,
Scorewithcater won a high-end optional claiming race at Santa Anita on
Jan. 29.
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Dirt test for 12 in Sunland Derby
By Mary Rampellini -
The Daily Racing
Form
3/29/2009- Although the $800,000 Sunland Park Derby on
Sunday did not draw a leading candidate for this year's Kentucky Derby,
it has lured a field of 12 promising 3-year-olds. And because the
Sunland Derby is run on dirt and at 1 1/8 miles, it should answer key
questions that will determine future starts for a number of its
entrants.
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Unlikely road to Louisville
By Jay Privman / Barbara D.
Livingston
April 15. 2009 - Square Eddie will make his first start
since suffering a minor leg fracture in Saturday's Grade 2 Coolmore
Lexington Stakes. Midshipman, the division's champion, is out. So too
Vineyard Haven. This past week, Old Fashioned left the trail to the
Kentucky Derby. Many of the prominent 2-year-olds from last year will
not be in the Derby on May 2 at Churchill Downs.
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Allen and
'Mine That Bird' Are Ready
- Pete Herrera –
SureBet Racing News
SUNLAND PARK, NM-
April 21—New Mexico horseman Mark
Allen considers the chance to run in
the Kentucky Derby ‘like’ an
invitation to Buckingham Palace to
meet the queen.
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Mine
That Bird gets ready for the
Kentucky Derby
April 23, 2009
-
Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11) - With
Kentucky Derby 135 a little more
than a week away the field is
starting to take shape. One of the
long shots expected to run for the
Roses is Mine That Bird trained by
Bennie Woolley Jr. Woolley Jr. gets
around Churchill Downs with the help
of crutches, thanks to a motorcycle
accident which hurt his foot.
Because of the injury he's had to
let others assume some of his duties
saying, "It's a job especially for
someone like me who's been hands on
all his life. It's kind of hard to
watch somebody else do the work."
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 Mine That Bird Works
Toward Derby
By
Blood-Horse
Staff
April 27, 2009 - Mine That Bird, the
2008 Canadian champion 2-year-old
male, worked five furlongs in 1:02
April 27 at Churchill Downs in
preparation for the May 2 Kentucky
Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr.
I).
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Mine That Bird
and Summer Bird Are on their way to Kentucky -
Derby fever continues to run rampant as usual as two more horses, Summer Bird
and Mine That Bird, both sons of Birdstone , are heading to Churchill Downs for
the Run for the Roses.
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Three
more commit to Kentucky Derby
The 20-horse field
for the Kentucky Derby Presented by
Yum! Brands (G1) continues to take
shape as the connections of three
more horses on Saturday confirmed
they will join the Derby fray.
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Rachel
Alexandra steals Derby horses'
thunder
By
Mike Welsch / Barbara D. Livingston
Oaks favorite Rachel
Alexandra turned in the work of the
day at Churchill Downs on Monday.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - It took eight days
in Kentucky to finally see a workout
that would blow my socks off, a la
Street Sense or Barbaro, in the
weeks leading up to this year's
Kentucky Derby. That work came
Monday at Churchill Downs, but it
was not turned in by a prospective
Derby starter but by Rachel
Alexandra, who will be the odds-on
favorite to capture the 2009
Kentucky Oaks.
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Mine
That Bird Works Toward Derby
By
Blood-Horse
Staff
April 27, 2009 - Mine
That Bird, the 2008 Canadian
champion 2-year-old male, worked
five furlongs in 1:02 April 27 at
Churchill Downs in preparation for
the May 2 Kentucky Derby Presented
by Yum! Brands (gr. I).
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Six
take first grab for brass ring
By Marty McGee /
Barbara D. Livingston
Benny "Chip"
Woolley Jr., hurt in a motorcycle
accident, brought Mine That Bird to
Louisville himself.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. 4/30/2009 - By now,
the story of Tom McCarthy has been
well told - the improbability of a
75-year-old retired high school
principal making it to the Kentucky
Derby with General Quarters as the
ultimate underdog on racing's
greatest stage.
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Haskin's
Derby Report: 48 Hours and Counting
By Steve Haskin
The big day is almost
here. No, not the Derby; having to
make selections, which will be in
Friday’s column. These selections
are
based primarily on observations over
the past eight days, and it’s going
to be particularly difficult this
year. In the meantime, he are a few
late odds and ends.
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One
last look reveals some clues
By Mike Welsch -
Daily Racing Form
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - All
20 Kentucky Derby starters went to
the track Thursday at Churchill
Downs - one last chance to see the
field for
this year's Derby before making a
final assessment. There were a few
surprises, both good and bad, in the
offing.
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As
Mine That Bird flies - Gelding takes
a curious path from Woodbine to Kentucky By
ROB LONGLEY -
Toronto Sun
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - May 1, 2009 - Before he ever set hoof to
racetrack, Canadian champion Mine That Bird was unfathomable
furlongs from being a Kentucky Derby prospect.
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I Want Revenge: Post 13,
Derby Favorite
By Evan Hammonds - May 2, 2009
10:22 AM
I Want Revenge, runaway winner of the Gotham
Stakes (gr. I) and a determined victor in the April 4 Wood Memorial
(gr. I), has been made the 3-1 morning line favorite for the May 2
Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I). The son of Stephen
Got Even will break from post 13 in a full field of 20 3-year-olds
for the $2-million classic that will be run under the Twin Spires of
Churchill Downs set for 6:24 p.m. on Saturday afternoon.
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I Want Revenge Scratched
From Derby
May 2, 2009 - By Ron Mitchell
and Dan Liebman
I Want Revenge, the morning-line favorite for
the May 2 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), was
scratched after a filling was discovered in an ankle on the day of
the race.
It is the first time in Derby history (that anyone could research)
that the morning-line favorite was scratched the day of the race.
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Kentucky Derby Day Dawns
Wet and Cool
By Ron Mitchell - May 2, 2009
Kentucky Derby day 135 dawned with a steady,
sometimes heavy rain, and a temperature of 53 degrees in Louisville
on the morning of May 2.
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