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1 Gunnevera Antonio Sano Dialed In—Unbridled Rage, by Unbridled I asked Sano what was it about Gunnevera that attracted him at the sale and I loved his answer: “His eyes…his eyes were happy.” They obviously still are. Whether he’s winning a grade 2 sprint at Saratoga, a two-turn stakes on a bull ring track in Louisiana, or on a shortened ...

Back in racing’s glory days, which people my age call racing in the 1960s and ‘70s, there was little in the way of televised races. There was no simulcasting, no home computers and cell phones, and once a week during the ‘60s, TV viewers in New York would tune in to the affable and folksy Win Elliot broadcasting the races from Aqueduct, which was ...

Order This Photo Order This Photo Always the professional stallion, Tapit walks and poses for prospective breeders and others during his daily two-hour show time. And the gray (now almost white) always looks spotless as he is paraded by the stallion barns and breeding shed. Order This Photo The leading Thoroughbred sire in North America for ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman After a major rearranging of the Kentucky Derby picture last weekend, with heavy favorites Irish War Cry and El Areeb falling to defeat, racing fans will be holding their breath in anticipation for the two Derby prep races coming up this Saturday. While much of the attention will be ...

With the Dubai World Cup preps concluded and the big night only a few weeks away, and the anticipation of seeing Arrogate, I thought I would get everyone in the mood by reprinting a feature (slightly condensed version) my daughter Mandy wrote for Dubairacenight.com in 2010 about her experiences visiting a place she had heard stories about ...

Enhanced Inbreeding The TrueNicks Enhanced Inbreeding Report will provide you with a detailed statistical report on any inbreeding occurrence in a pedigree page. The data gathered includes: The foals of racing age, starters, winners, Black Type winners and the average CPI of all horses with the same inbreeding as the subject horse The ...

Trainer Jamie Ness began serving a 100-day suspension Feb. 19 as part of a consent order to address a dozen clenbuterol positives in horses racing from December 2012 to March 2014 at Tampa Bay Downs and Gulfstream Park. Three days after the start of that suspension, Ness's wife, Mandy, sent out Uncle Woodrow to victory in a Tampa Bay claiming ...