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(Originally published in the January 9, 2010 combined issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)    Researching the leading regional sires of 2009, a coincidence was noted among the leading sires of the year in Maryland, California, and Florida: Not For Love, ...

(Originally published in the December 26, 2009 / January 2, 2010 combined issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)      Asked to compile a series of “best of” lists for the first decade of this century, Blood-Horse senior correspondent Steve Haskin ...

By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRA    It's the time of year when people like to make a wish list for the upcoming 12 months.  We are on the verge, though, of completing not just another year, but a full decade. So in that spirit, here's my list of wishes for the Thoroughbred industry in the 2010s. ...

The San Gabriel Mountains could barely be seen against the black morning sky. Then, just before 5:30, a fiery glow appeared, illuminating the peaks off to the east. As in 1993, raging fires had broken out near Santa Anita, although these were some 30 miles away. Inside Barn 4, trainer Richard Mandella had other things on his mind. He sat ...

Steve Haskin's Look Back at the Decade  Editors of The Blood-Horse challenged senior correspondent Steve Haskin to fill in the blanks on several “best of” lists for the decade of 2000-2009. While several of them appear in the Dec. 26/Jan. 2 combined issue of the magazine (mailing on Dec. 29), there wasn’t space for them ...

Call it fate. Call it kismet. Whatever title you prefer, Rags to Riches seemed destined to give trainer Todd Pletcher and jockey John Velazquez their first classic winner. Although ''Johnny V'' has been Pletcher's first-call rider for years, it took a last-­minute decision to run the filly and a madcap jockey scramble to bring them together ...

By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRA   Two tax incentives that greatly benefited the horse industry are set to expire at the end of the year...but there's still time to take advantage of them if you're thinking of an equipment purchase in 2009. Another tax benefit - just for horse purchases - continues for several ...

As mentioned, to keep this blog active over the holiday season, I am reprinting a series of race recaps, mainly from the Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup, that originally were published on Bloodhorse.com over the past decade. A new recap will appear every two days. The intention is to provide the reader with a kaleidoscope of images and ...