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This is a recent Dollars and Sense column, which appears weekly in BloodHorse Daily, typically Friday. The success enjoyed on opening weekend at Keeneland by horses who made their previous start at Kentucky Downs serves as the latest example of the improving quality of horses competing at the lucrative September meet in Franklin, Ky. Horses who ...

The Challenge, sponsored by Darby Dan Farm appears each week through Breeders' Cup, typically Saturday, in BloodHorse Daily. Of active, United States-based stallions, Malibu Moon leads the group of 2017 Breeders' Cup Challenge winners. A look at this year's Challenge, which concluded Oct. 11, shows Malibu Moon was the only active U.S. ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman With just two weeks remaining until the Breeders' Cup, it's not too early to start examining the races and begin formulating our potential plays. Two of the most interesting races at this year's Breeders' Cup are the two dirt sprints--the Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I) and the ...

By: Erin Shea, @BH_EShea Jockey Megan Fadlovich attended this year's Thoroughbred Makeover presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America without a mount. The rider, who has earned more than $4.7 million in her career to date, helps retire racehorses when she's not busy at the track. Although she's currently recovering from an injury incurred in ...

Joe Palmer, the former associate editor of The Blood-Horse, and celebrated columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, once began one of his pieces: “There are several ways of putting a column together. One is to work. This is generally frowned on in the profession. The other is to sit opposite John B. Campbell, a steward at Hialeah and the racing ...

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By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman One of the annual highlights of the Keeneland fall meet is the $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Stakes (gr. I), a nine-furlong race that pits some of the best three-year-old turf fillies against each other in a race that often serves as a prep for the Breeders' Cup Filly ...

By: Erin Shea, @BH_EShea The 2017 Thoroughbred Makeover presented by Thoroughbred Charities of America had approximately 300 horses compete in 10 different disciplines all in one weekend at one venue. From Oct. 5-Oct. 8, the Kentucky Horse Park was packed with off-track Thoroughbreds and their owners, trainers, and fans from all walks of the ...

The term “October surprise” is usually pegged to the presidential election cycle, but the Thoroughbred world received a pretty good one when John Sikura and Ken Ramsey announced that Kitten’s Joy, the leading sire of 2013 and a four-time leading turf sire in the U.S., would be moving from Ramsey Farm near Nicholasville, Ky., to Sikura’s Hill ‘n’ ...

Keen Ice may have lost the battle, as in the $750,000 purse of the Jockey Club Gold Cup, but don't be surprised when the war is over on the evening of November 4 he is the last one standing. Yes, we are all well aware that Keen Ice is not known for hoisting many victory flags, and no one would be brazen enough to say he is going to go to the ...