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 Watching the beautiful sunrise over the mountains track side here at Santa Anita for the first time was just amazing. We had a few good shots of horse and rider riding in silhouette against the sun rise. There are a few horses working and a lot of horses I have not seen in person. I am tweeting on twitter all morning and have instant access ...

 I am sitting trackside at Santa Anita. The sun is bright, sky blue and mountains rocky. We saw Careless Jewel, Colonel John and several other horses working out very nicely. You can tell there are a great number of high quality horses jogging around the synthetic and turf tracks. Now we are off to the barns for a bit. I will try to keep you ...

 Breeders' Cup I am off to Breeders' Cup Saturday morning at 6am. My plan is to try and give you all a few blogs from the track, sights and sounds, updates, and interesting observations. This will be my first time at Santa Anita, so I am excited about the trip. I wish Chantal was still around, but maybe I can meet Kayla eh? Stop Stable Boy ...

 Rob Dyrdek has competed in the X Games, set Guinness Book of World Records, and is an amazing skater period. He was born in Kettering, Ohio and used to travel down to my hometown of Lexington, KY to skate every now and then. A few of my friends would skate with him way back in the day. With Rob's location, he easily had access to horse ...

 So it has been a while since I actually wrote words down as a blog. How is everyone?History is the key word for the past month. The time frame has held a lot of graded stakes, some amazing performances and lots of crisp, freshly written history. The horse racing world has also lost six or more legends and fought through industry adjustment ...

John King, with CNN's State of the Union, recently visited Crestwood Farm and Hazard Kentucky. This is his brief with his staff on how Kentucky is doing. Word is getting out about our industry. Embedded video from CNN Video     Three Chimneys has released their commercials for the Breeders' Cup on their YouTube Channel. They are ...

Kona Gold [brightcove videoid=''14463958001''] Chocolate Candy This is a video of Chocolate Candy receiving a bath Monday or Tuesday of Kentucky Derby week. We did not use this video for anything and since I shot it and had it captured, why not post it for those of you who might be interested. However, it did glitch as I was capturing the ...

A sunny day, low 80s, a stern breeze and landscape that rivals serenity. This is the day we were provided with to shoot a video piece to accompany our magazine feature on Dixiana farms. The talent, an incredibly wise and witty Ercel Ellis led the way. We were later joined by farm manager Terry Arnold. The two led Evan Hammonds, and we Blood-Horse ...

After covering the Keeneland Septemeber Sale yesterday, I was amazed to discover there were ZERO seven digit horses sold. Compared to at least five on the first day of last years September Sale. The breeders/sellers and those involved in the sale were expecting the market to correct itself, but that is pretty major. I just wanted to give some ...

Jockeys 2.3Here is a quick review of the show and I would like to hear feedback of what you thought of the newest episode.How about the Dubai World Cup? The entire story surrounding Aaron Gryder and his attempt to win the Dubai World Cup was very captivating. The story included his family, the incredible story behind Well Armed, and Aaron ...