- January 06, 2010
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The travel arrangements were made. The horse was ready to go. Unfortunately, the weather didn’t cooperate. Snow in Louisiana? So Richard Owens ended up watching the $750,000 Boyd Gaming’s Delta Jackpot...
- January 06, 2010
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Innovation. Progress. Leadership. These are just a few of the words used over the years to describe what David Willmot has brought to the horse racing industry in Ontario since he bulled his way into the...
- December 09, 2009
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The Roman numeral in back of Don Ameche III’s name not only denotes his ancestral lineage, it also marks the third generation of his family that has been involved in the Thoroughbred business. Having entered...
- December 09, 2009
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Tom and Sandy McKenna believe in the “cowboy way” when it comes to raising good horses at their 1,200-acre McKenna Thoroughbreds near Taiban in the eastern part of New Mexico. “It’s wide, open fields and...
- November 11, 2009
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O ver the years William Backer has discovered that things go better with racing. The retired songwriting guru, known during his professional career as the man who coined many famous slogans and jingles...
- November 11, 2009
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A ppaloosas brought Michael House to Thoroughbreds. The spotted horses carted his kids in show rings across the country and his silks on the California fair racing circuit. House even now sometimes keeps...
- September 22, 2009
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Because Kim Lloyd had a comfortable chair, he got to be the fly on the wall when two of California’s greatest horsemen swapped tales. After training hours at Santa Anita Park, Willard Proctor would amble...
- April 21, 2009
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No matter what the industry, trends in America are often said to start in California and move east. But for the horse industry, Iowa, smack in the middle of the nation’s breadbasket, represents a microcosm...
- April 07, 2009
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When Delaware North announced it was ending its partnership with the New York Racing Association to install video lottery terminals at Aqueduct racecourse, the executive director of the New York Thoroughbred...
- March 24, 2009
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As breeder/owner Marilyn McMaster looked at splashy photographs of yearlings galloping across lush pastures, her favorite gray mare posing beneath a weeping willow tree, and her intricately self-built...
