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Racing is a family sport; always has been. The success of many of the industry’s top Thoroughbred breeding farms has been built by handing the baton from one generation to the next. Fans often get into the sport not by randomly stumbling into a racetrack one day, but by having their parents or a family member guide them through the gates for the ...

This column is split into two parts. One is a look at the career of Frosted, with comments from those around him, and the other is a repost of a column I wrote early last year that focused on Kiaran McLaughlin’s daughter Erin. I feel in the wake of Frosted’s emergence as a titan of the Turf and the feelings expressed for the colt and her ...

There is an old expression, “You can’t see the forest for the trees,” which is defined by Dictionary.com as: “An expression used of someone who is too involved in the details of a problem to look at the situation as a whole.” Urban Dictionary put it best: “Simply that you have focused on the many details and have failed to see the overall view, ...

Sorry, folks, this one’s for me. If you hang around I thank you in advance for indulging my sentimentality, but the events of Aug. 1 have inspired me, no, make that compelled me, to express my intense feelings of gratitude to my wife and daughter, and all my friends and family who shared in the most special and memorable day of my career. But ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman A summer of fantastic racing at Saratoga continues on Saturday with five more stakes races, including the prestigious $1,250,000 Whitney Stakes (gr. I), the highlight of the meet for older male horses and a major ''Win and You're In'' prep race for the Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I). ...

What’s Going on Here? What’s not going on here? The staff of BloodHorse has been feverishly working for the last couple of months on this 100th anniversary edition. We’ve sifted through our photo library, searching for treasured images of horses, places, and valued employees of the past century. We’ve combed through the bound volumes of the ...

As part of the Blood-Horse's 100th anniversary issue on Aug. 6, I have been asked to list (with links) my 15 favorite Hangin With Haskin blogs. This was an extremely difficult task, as it's like choosing which of your children you like the best. Here are the 15 I have come up with, in no particular order, and the reasons why each was ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman Although opening weekend at Saratoga was excellent, the racing action really heats up this Saturday, with four graded stakes races on the agenda. Two of the most intriguing from a handicapping perspective are the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap (gr. I) for older sprinters and the Jim ...

We haven’t seen anything quite like this in a long time…at least the beginnings of it. But on Aug. 20, California Chrome and Dortmund, who put on quite a show in Saturday’s San Diego Handicap, which could signal a terrific rivalry in the making, will hook up again, with the towering Dortmund trying to avenge his tough head defeat at the hands ...

It can’t be a very old adage because it only applies to the commercial era of horse racing, not to the time when it was the Sport of Kings. “Keep your best horses in the worst company,” the saying goes. Loosely translated the theory means that owners and trainers can better pad their bottom lines by racking up victories while not overexerting ...