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March 08, 2012
The colt who would have been favored in the $300,000 San Felipe Stakes on Saturday at Santa Anita was resting comfortably in his stall Thursday morning after undergoing a surgical procedure the day before to repair a fracture of his left fore cannon bone.
March 07, 2012
Churchill Downs Racetrack announced a multi-year partnership, naming the world’s best-selling Belgian beer Stella Artois as “The Official Beer Sponsor of Churchill Downs, the Kentucky Oaks, and the Kentucky Derby.
March 06, 2012
Led by Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner Regally Ready, and a stakes winner formerly trainer by Nick Zito, Fly Down, there are strong American influences on Saturday’s program of seven stakes at Meydan racecourse in Dubai.
February 29, 2012
The return to a dirt surface at Santa Anita makes the Big Cap a more attractive option to the Dubai World Cup.
The way Union Rags looked in the Fountain of Youth, Pennsylvania may have a connection to another Kentucky Derby winner.
February 24, 2012
Skylaunch, a 10-year-old gelding who will be scratched from a start as a $3,000 claimer Sunday at Turf Paradise, will soon have a new home and new career as a jumper.
February 23, 2012
I don’t know what the weather is like in your neck of the woods, but here in Vegas it feels like spring has sprung.
On Saturday, the reigning 3-year-old champion Royal Delta will make her first start as a 4-year-old in the Sabin Stakes at Gulfstream Park, at 1 1/16 miles on the main track. The stakes are higher for the reigning male sprint champ Amazombie, who makes ...
February 22, 2012
With a key presidential primary just around the corner, the media’s current obsession with all things Michigan is monopolizing the conversation as candidates burrow deep into both the upper and lower peninsulas.
I have been a Tampa Bay loyalist for years, and I was one of many horseplayers who eagerly anticipated the winter season that began in December. And I am one of many who have been disappointed and disillusioned about the decline of the track’s product.
February 17, 2012
News item of the day: “Stating that ‘there is no sustaining merit to the request,’ New York stewards have denied Dr. Kendall Hansen permission to dye the mane and tail of his near-white champion colt Hansen for his appearance in the Gotham Stakes at ...
February 16, 2012
Even higher purses at Illinois racetracks aren’t going to change the recent trajectory of the Illinois breeding landscape. And that trajectory has been downward.
February 15, 2012
Track information and stakes schedule for the 2013 Hawthorne Racecourse spring meet, highlighted by G3 $750,000 Illinois Derby on April 20.
There's only one way for Santa Anita to honor Zenyatta - with a statue. Fortunately, Nina Kaiseris up to the task.
February 13, 2012
Many dream about the "good old days" of harness racing. But the truth is that there never has been a better time for bettors than right now.
February 10, 2012
The process by which Thoroughbreds are bred, for private use or for market, and then trained to compete in a setting of parimutuel wagering for personal or corporate profit is woefully inefficient and ultimately wasteful.
February 09, 2012
On Monday night in Pasadena, Eclipse Award champion Acclamation will receive another honor when the California Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association names him its 2011 Cal-bred horse of the year. To be accurate, the envelope is still sealed, and the ...
The Giants pulled off the 21-17 upset of the Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI last Sunday, but the biggest upset according to some was that the sports books in Nevada were open for business Monday morning.
Trakus is a potential source of valuable information. But handicappers currently cannot access some of the best data.
February 08, 2012
Black Caviar runs this Saturday in her native Australia gunning for her 18th straight victory without a defeat in the C.F. Orr Stakes at Caulfield, in suburban Melbourne.