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The holiday cheer still lingers, the trips to the gym haven’t yet slowed to a crawl, and we’re whistling past the mailbox dreading the day the Visa bill arrives. Until then we are thinking of the better days ahead in 2017…and there are two things that tell us of good things to come. News from the National Thoroughbred Racing Association on Dec. ...

It is 2017. That means it’s been 50 years since Thoroughbred racing entered, encompassed, and changed my life, altering its course forever. It pulled me out of the frenzied, often cutthroat world of Wall Street and brought to my life a passion and a spirit I had never experienced before. For half a century I have tried to share that passion and ...

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While it’s a small sample size, horses reported to receive steroid administrations in 2016 in California who have come back to race fared very well in their first starts after those treatments, winning at about three times the normal rate. Looking at the reported anabolic steroid administrations in 2016 in California, 16 times horses have ...

Appropriately enough, the Dec. 29 release from the National Thoroughbred Racing Association started with the greeting, ''Happy New Year!'' What followed in the release certainly is good news. The Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service have all but enacted new rules on withholding and reporting of pari-mutuel winnings that ...

Current Standings   The Don 1316 predict 1132 Van Horn 1120 Footlick 1083 Outside Post 1051 Keelerman 1038 Standby Painter 1015 smitty37 988 Aluminaut 970 Wxavierh 960 chasingmytale 956 shelmarka ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (“Keelerman”) Twitter: @J_Keelerman As we approach the final days of 2016, a new year of racing looms just over the horizon; a year filled with excitement and potential. On January 1st, a new crop of Thoroughbreds will turn three years old, and the road to the Kentucky Derby will really begin. To celebrate the arrival ...

Not that the horse had a choice, but Masochistic now holds the dubious distinction of being the center of not one, but two racing scandals. BloodHorse headlines this week documented the recommendation by the California Horse Racing Board Dec. 19 that Santa Anita Park stewards disqualify Masochistic from his runner-up finish in the TwinSpires ...