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Dog Creates Profit, Bites Nobody
Kentucky Derby sire Falsetto was bred and raised by JW Hunt Reynolds in Kentucky. A big, growthy yearling, according...
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Filly champs at four: Busher and Twilight Tear
On Saturday, Rachel Alexandra will launch her 4-year-old season at the Fairgrounds in New Orleans. In 2009...
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Arriving at Calder Race Course for the breeze show before the Fasig-Tipton Calder sale last week, I turned into the…
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Photo Essay: Windfields Farm - End Of An Era
I walked out of Saturday’s Windfields Farm auction holding halters belonging to La Petite Justice and Tacky Affair, but my…
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New Jersey takes a bold step forward
The theory that horse racing will never get its act together on a national scale because the industry players are…
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The Jockey Club's foreign racing database needs to improve
Awesome Act, the Grade 3 Gotham Stakes winner Saturday, is from the beautifully bred mare...
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A whole new world: A glimpse at Thoroughbred racing in Qatar
We hear so often in the Thoroughbred business about what a global industry it is and, with such foreign-owned empires as Coolmore Stud...
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I've been reading a lot these days about the good old days of dirt tracks in California and how much…
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Handle Numbers May Not Be What They Seem
I hate to rain on the Equibase and the National Thoroughbred Racing Association’s bad news parade, but there...
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The incomparable 6-year-old Japanese turf mare Vodka is nearing the end of her illustrious career, which will culminate in the…
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Bill Turner Honored in Barbados, if not in the Hall of Fame
Bill Turner, the only living thoroughbred trainer to win the Triple Crown, is in Barbados...
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Letter to Florida Regarding Uniform Surface Change Rules
Sir/Madam, On Saturday February 27, at Gulfstream Park the last race was...
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"I'm not threatening." This is what Frank Stronach said, and I tried hard to believe it. But when a man…
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I have been stalking the Guidestar website for the release of several IRS Form 990 tax filings over the past…
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Good News, Bad News in New Jersey
A shorter meet at Monmouth is a great idea, but is this the way to go about it?
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Notes on how Bambera’s sire Water Poet went to Venezuela
There's been some US buzz for a while now about Bambera, the filly from Venezuela...
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‘Thoroughbred’ Premieres at Keeneland for KET, Director Wagner
On Friday night at the Keeneland sales pavilion in Lexington, Ky., Paul Wagner's documentary Thoroughbred...
February 28 2010, 12:38pm | Visit source ›
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This is the first of a three-part diary on the $5-million Apple Blossom Invitational (gr. I) April 9, pitting Rachel…
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Super Saver could soon be there, at Oaklawn Park, and maybe Noble’s Promise, the two prominent Triple Crown candidates traveling…
February 26 2010, 1:59pm | Visit source ›
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It began with an innocent inquiry to DRF from someone updating a book, wanting to know if favorites still won…
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Measuring the Major Kentucky Derby Preps, 1952 – 2009
Like many race fans at this time of year, I am beginning to show symptoms of Derby fever. Unfortunately, we are still…
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Congratulations to NYRA on, albeit reluctantly, releasing the salary data for its top executives. In an age when all sorts…
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In recent weeks, there have been fantasy racing stable games opened to the public by such major breeding and racing…
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Eskendereya pedigree constructed for classics
Eskendereya, impressive winner of the G2 Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Saturday, actually sold at Keeneland...
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More Competition Coming Online
Buying and selling positions on celebrities, television shows, presidential candidates and the like have been happening...
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In a perfect world (a good movie, by the way, with Eastwood and Costner), that heady array of 3-year-old stakes…
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I personally think it's wrong that NYRA was pressured by politicians (egged on by the press) into releasing the salaries…
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Eskendereya's 8 1/2-length blowout in Saturday's Fountain of Youth received an overnight Beyer Speed Figure of 106...
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