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Canterbury Opens and Things are Looking Up
Friday marks the start of the Canterbury Park racing season – the Saratoga of the Midwest, if you will. Okay,…
May 17 2012, 10:00am | Visit source ›
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Once a horse's race career is over, they are at risk for an uncertain future. Sometimes it is due to…
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DeRosa: The agony of defeat (video)
Walking back to the stable area, trainer Neil Howard was not a happy man. His charge, Brilliant, had just finished second to Sky Conqueror in the 2007 Woodford Reserve Turf…
May 14 2012, 8:46am | Visit source ›
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Courthouse News Service: Quarrel Over Income From a Classy Horse
A Saratoga Springs company with a stake in the thoroughbred "Inherit the Gold" asked a court for its share of the gelding's 2012 winnings and an accounting to see if…
May 4 2012, 8:36am | Visit source ›
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Cooperation, New Lines of Communication and Ignorance
Right now I should be on the road to Chicago but I had to delay my departure to put down…
May 1 2012, 7:07am | Visit source ›
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Hovdey: Paying back those responsible for big scores
Fiction or non, the idea that gamblers have a soft spot for the horses who get them home is not necessarily an outrageous concept. Rare, but not outrageous. Beychok, a…
April 27 2012, 7:29am | Visit source ›
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The race was run over the main track at 7 furlongs and, as I mentioned in the preview post Friday,…
April 23 2012, 6:00am | Visit source ›
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After nearly 60-days Tabby Lane is back in a race. We were looking for a $16,000 claiming race or, near…
April 20 2012, 6:00am | Visit source ›
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We finally got into a race. Sort of. Actually, we’ll be scratching out of it I’m nearly 100% sure. We…
April 14 2012, 10:28am | Visit source ›
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We wait and wait. Since the aborted attempt to purchase Tabby Lane we have waited for a race. The end…
April 6 2012, 3:58pm | Visit source ›
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Genaro: Derby Dreams for Hidden Brook Farm and Texans' McNair
“The way he runs” is coming from behind, spotting the leaders multiple lengths, and last Saturday at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, Street Life did just that, loping comfortably along until…
March 22 2012, 9:16am | Visit source ›
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The phone call came soon after Tabby’s latest triumph. “We’d like to make an offer on your horse, Tabby Lane.”…
March 15 2012, 7:56am | Visit source ›
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Two for 2012. Tabby Lane, under one of the best rides I’ve seen on her by jockey Dean Butler, powered…
March 3 2012, 6:38am | Visit source ›
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Present and Past at Sagamore Farm
“On a quiet evening or a Sunday morning, when there’s nothing happening, I think you can feel it. They talk…
March 2 2012, 6:30am | Visit source ›
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Update: The Cost of Thoroughbred Ownership in New York
It's been a couple of years since I last commented on the cost of owning a thoroughbred race horse in…
March 1 2012, 1:05pm | Visit source ›
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“As president of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, a group that represents exactly what the name suggests, [Alfred Gwynne…
February 29 2012, 6:30am | Visit source ›
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INTERVIEW WITH DREAM TEAM RACING
Today’s Horse Racing Business presents an inside look at the racehorse partnership known as Dream Team Racing (click here for…
February 24 2012, 6:00am | Visit source ›
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Haskin's Derby Trail: "Veni, Vidi, Valor"
Last year at this time, Team Valor International was as close to winning the Kentucky Derby as the Indianapolis Colts…
February 22 2012, 10:36am | Visit source ›
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Tabby Lane Goes for 10th Win at Tampa
Tabby Lane will be shooting for her 10th career victory tomorrow afternoon in the 8th race at Tampa Bay Downs. …
February 21 2012, 5:49pm | Visit source ›
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Owner Leon, trainer Pletcher part ways
Benjamin Leon Jr. has moved his Besilu Stables horses in training from the barn of Todd Pletcher to Bill Mott…
January 30 2012, 12:50pm | Visit source ›
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A WINNING DAY IN FLORIDA FOR A RACING PARTNERSHIP
HALLANDALE, FL. Readers of this blog and my Blood-Horse articles know that I am a strong proponent of racehorse partnerships…
January 29 2012, 6:00am | Visit source ›
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What should we know, and when should we know it?
Earlier this week, the internet lit up with the news of the birth of Rachel Alexandra’s first foal, a colt…
January 28 2012, 6:30am | Visit source ›
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Freak filly ready to make first start for Team Valor International
In 2011 Team Valor International privately purchased a three-year-old filly named Summer Soiree that would go on to win three graded stakes races, capped by the Grade 1 Del Mar…
January 24 2012, 7:27am | Visit source ›
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Back in the Game...or Writer's Chair
I go ahead and give the blog a fresh, new look and then promptly disappear for 3 weeks! What could…
January 21 2012, 11:10am | Visit source ›
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THE SPORT OF KINGS, THE WEALTHY, AND BARBERS
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL. I met a barber today in his shop near the beach who is a partner with two of…
January 9 2012, 3:26pm | Visit source ›
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Who has ten bucks I can borrow?
Ten dollars, are we really talking about only ten dollars?Have you always wanted to be an owner of something big?…
January 8 2012, 3:40am | Visit source ›
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Jim Rome: out of The Jungle and onto the (horse) farm
He’s got a radio program called “The Jungle” and a TV show called “Rome Is Burning.” His trademark content is called “smack,” which Austin Murphy in Sports Illustrated defined as…
January 6 2012, 11:10am | Visit source ›
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There He Goes Again: Stronach's $10 a Share Scheme
As readers of this blog know, I have no love for Frank Stronach, or for what he's done to racing.…
January 4 2012, 12:19am | Visit source ›
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A New Look, a Look Back, a New Year and Happy Birthday
Happy New Year to you all! I hope that your celebrations were wonderful and that 2012 brings you all you…
January 1 2012, 6:34am | Visit source ›
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$10 a share: Stronach sets up new racehorse investment companies
So you’ve always wanted to own a piece of a racehorse but the entry-level costs are a little too much.…
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