At 1:30 in the afternoon, the final shipment of horses arrived...finally, having escaped from New York....
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Patti and Dean Reeves have been at Santa Anita for a few days. All that's missing is their horse, Mucho Macho Man....
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It was quite an arduous journey, but the Bill Mott- and Chad Brown-trained horses, along with Point of Entry, finally arrived at Santa Anita at 9:15 Monday morning following an 11-hour trip....
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It was a tale of two coasts Sunday morning. On the west coast, an invigorating chill in the air; a bright blue, cloudless sky; the San Gabriel mountains so clear and sharp it was as if you could reach out and touch them; hundreds people gathered at Clocker's Corner as dozens upon dozens of horses decked out in Breeders' Cup saddle towels charged by, either working or galloping....
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He's not brilliant and he doesn't have much speed, but if you are looking for a monster longshot to play around with in the Breeders' Cup Classic, you might want to consider Brilliant Speed....
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Well, there's no escaping it now. Frankelstein cannot be destroyed. Racing's four-legged monster has run amok for the last time....
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Steve answers the charge concerning the "decline" of the American superstar and the "ascendancy" of the English superstar. ...
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A light, steady rain fell as the Cooper Horse Transport van pulled up to the barn at Bruce Jackson's Fair Hill Equine Therapy Center, located a stone's throw from Graham Motion's Herringswell Stable barn....
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A chilly, cloudless October morning at Beautiful Belmont provided the setting for trainer Bill Mott and his band of Breeders' Cup big guns....
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Steve tells the tale of Shanghai Bobby. ...
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Forget the heartbreaking defeats in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont, and the promising careers cut short. The Zayat family will always remember 2012 as the year of Paynter....
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By popular demand (lol) and a few specific requests, I am posting another batch of photos of Mandy and some of the great horses she has met over the years....
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