Havre de Grace finishes first in final NTRA Poll

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11/07/2011 - New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - A fourth-place finish in the 2011 Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday did not prevent Havre de Grace from finishing atop the final NTRA Thoroughbred Poll for 2011. The four-year-old filly was the 4-1 second pick in the 12-horse Classic field.

Owned by Rick Porter's Fox Hill Farm, Havre de Grace received 15 first-place votes and 189 points, an increase of seven points, to remain in the top position. The filly has been the top vote getter since her win over male horses in the Woodward during the Labor Day weekend.

"She didn't do anything to tarnish herself. She has another year ahead of her," said the filly's trainer Larry Jones.

Classic runner-up Game One Dude closes in the second position, up from fourth, with a first-place vote and 141 points.

"He ran so good," trainer Bob Baffert said about the four-year-old. "That track was so demanding; I've never seen it like that here before. Those horses had to work so hard."

Ladies' Classic winner Royal Delta, trained by Bill Mott along with Classic champ Drosselmeyer, also got one top vote and 135 points for third in the poll. Drosselmeyer, the 14-1 Classic winner, makes his first appearance in the fifth spot with a first-place vote and 111 points.

"You know, you can't ever fathom thinking about winning two races like this on a weekend. I mean, the biggest, most prestigious races of the weekend," Mott said Saturday after capturing the Breeders' Cup Classic.

Tizway, who was held out of the Breeders' Cup, fell one rung to fourth. The six-year-old received a single top vote and 122 points to separate Mott's two horses in the voting.

In sixth and seventh are two horses who also missed the World Championships at Churchill Downs. Pacific Classic winner Acclamation got two first-place votes and 88 points followed by Arlington Million champ Cape Blanco with 71 points and one top vote.

Coming in eighth is Juvenile Fillies winner My Miss Aurelia. Trained by Steve Asmussen, the two-year-old received 63 points followed by Flat Out (60) and Dirt Mile winner Caleb's Posse (49).

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Thus far, Edwards has been a non-factor in the NFL piling up just 139 receiving yards on 10 catches. He has yet to find the endzone, and with the Browns mired in the most unsexy quarterback controversy of all time (Anderson vs. Quinn...yawn), there going nowhere fast. Edwards is two seasons removed from a career year which saw him catch 80 passes for 1,289 yards and 16 touchdowns when the Browns were the spread killing monsters of 2007. In 2008, injuries slowed the receiver down to just 873 yards and three touchdowns though he played in all 16 games.

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