19 Mar 2013 10:25 AM
Keeneland's September sale tweaks benefit everyone....
23 Oct 2012 8:51 AM
The racing industsy has challenges...but health and safety come first...
02 Oct 2012 1:42 PM
Chenery's message: Remind people it's fun to go to the races...
10 Apr 2012 8:48 AM
The bread-and-butter meets in Kentucky are teetering on the brink...
21 Dec 2010 3:40 PM
The yin and yang of what did and didn't happen in 2010....
12 Oct 2010 3:39 PM
Taking a look at some of the tracks' numbers--attendance and handle--offers the Thoroughbred industry some insight into the health of the racing game....
08 Sep 2010 3:02 PM
Keeneland has successfully developed the September sale into the largest international marketplace for Thoroughbred yearlings. But whether the sale will continue offering the kinds of horses European buyers want is up for debate....
24 Aug 2010 2:36 PM
One thing we do know is the synthetic surface installed at Santa Anita has been a mess from the start and has seen more facelifts than Joan Rivers....
29 Jun 2010 12:49 PM
It's a buyer's market...but are the buyers out there?...
13 Apr 2010 12:58 PM
All we can ask for is consistency when it comes to licensing....
09 Mar 2010 1:14 PM
Once again Keeneland has listened to its customers, recently announcing changes to the structure of its September yearling sale....
07 Apr 2009 10:31 AM
On a beautiful spring day in Central Kentucky April 4, it was easy to see why Keeneland was considering a major expansion to its facility (now on hold due to the current state of the economy). With the fifth-highest attendance in its history--30,550--the place was bursting at the seams....
20 Jan 2009 9:39 AM
The Keeneland January horses of all ages sale is a barometer of, well, nothing. Most years, that is....
23 Dec 2008 11:37 AM
Handicapping is an integral part of the Thoroughbred game, a cerebral exercise that involves time and patience, skill and luck, risk-taking and rewards. ...
25 Nov 2008 1:07 PM
Sale company employees and officials remain accommodating, regardless of the state of the market....
11 Nov 2008 9:19 AM
Disaster. Brutal. Blood bath. Just a few of the many descriptive words being used by breeders to describe the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, which at this writing still had a week to run....
14 Oct 2008 10:15 AM
They say actions speak louder than words. The public is taking action by wagering less on horse racing. And those actions are speaking loudly....
23 Sep 2008 10:09 AM
Financier Warren Buffett once said there is only one certainty about the stock market: It will fluctuate....
26 Aug 2008 10:13 AM
Based on Reports of Mares Bred, The Jockey Club recently announced its projection of the foal crop of 2009 as 35,400, which would represent a 3.3% decline from the estimated 36,600 foals of 2008....
19 Aug 2008 9:38 AM
Just three months after it was announced he was being pensioned, Storm Cat was represented by the top price Aug. 5 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling sale. How fitting....
08 Apr 2008 12:20 PM
Alice Chandler has no intention of shooting craps in a fancy, glitzy casino. Wouldn't be the same. Now 82, she harkens back to her youth when she would try to make her point in a tack room with the men on her dad's Beaumont Farm. She loves recalling how at the tender age of 10, she won $600 and Triple Crown-winning jockey Smokey Saunders' car. "I came home bragging about it, and daddy made me give it all back," she said smiling....
25 Mar 2008 1:36 PM
Imagine using something in your profession for 25 years because you believe it to be beneficial, and then having regulators take it away from you. That, said Dr. Don Catlin, is how some Thoroughbred trainers must feel about the industry’s push to ban the usage of most anabolic steroids. ...