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Allen Jerkens, who saddled Onion to upset Secretariat in Saratoga’s 1973 Whitney, was honored last night at Siro’s.  The occasion was Earl B. Feiden’s 17th annual Saratoga eve party, called the Siro’s Cup. Feiden, an appliance dealer in nearby Latham, NY, created the soiree to raise money for the Center for Disability Services.  There’ll ...

By Lenny Shulman (Originally published in the July 17, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)    With the year’s initial sale of yearlings in the rearview mirror, what do we make of the Thoroughbred industry’s journey along ...

By Laura Pugh, of Horsin' Around “I'll bet Eclipse voters are really regretting their decision now.'' ''Now what do the voters think of Horse of the Year.'' ''Bet voters wish they could change their minds.'' This is not even a tenth of what is being said or what has been said, seven months after the Eclipse Awards were announced. Did you get ...

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(Originally published in the July 17, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)   By Evan Hammonds  The focus of racing in Kentucky after the Fourth of July should have been on Ellis Park as the Henderson, Ky., track once dubbed the ...

Bobby Frankel not only was a trainer, owner, and breeder, he was a darn good handicapper, a skill he developed studying the old Morning Telegraph as a kid growing up in Brooklyn. And it was his handicapping skills that won him many a race as a trainer. Unlike the majority of trainers from the 1960s, when he got started, Frankel came from the ...

.commentForm, .postComments, #comments{display:none;} Robert J. Kulina, vice president-Thoroughbred racing for the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority and general manager of Monmouth Park, will be the next guest on bloodhorse.com’s Talkin’ Horses podcast. A product of a racing family, Kulina is the son of the late Joseph Kulina, ...

He may not be awesome, but he’s definitely a gem. Although Awesome Gem has won only six of 35 starts in his career and was winless in 2008 and is winless this year, he has compiled a record that should make him one of the most endearing horses in the country.It’s difficult not to root for a horse who has given his all for so long over so many ...

(Originally published in the July 10, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Eric MitchellOnly one conclusion can be drawn from the Equine Injury Database statistics recently released about racehorse fatalities at North American ...

There has been quite an uproar over the announcement that Rachel Alexandra will run in the non-graded Lady’s Secret Stakes instead of the grade I Ruffian Handicap at Saratoga the following week.Although one can only speculate what their thinking is, here are some possibilities, going so far as to look ahead and coming up with a possible schedule ...