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If you look up Racing Times on Google, you will find only a single one-paragraph item on the racing newspaper being closed down after 10 months in existence. But what a 10 months it was following a full blown battle in which the new publication waged war on the powerful monopoly, Daily Racing Form, which had ruled the Sport of Kings since 1894 ...

It is a place where locals still line up at springs around town, dipping jugs of water under spigots to gather liquid they believe delivers beneficial minerals. It is not just Saratoga’s water, though, that heals whatever might ail you. A summer’s visit to the idyllic town in upstate New York can drain many of life’s pressures from humans and ...

Top-level horses and horsemen on the comeback trail were among the big stories the last full week of August, and they found entry to the winner’s circle a little harder than it used to be. While the fairy tales didn’t have happy beginnings, their returns to the spotlight are just the opening pages of the tale. There are plenty of chapters to go to ...

It was 1996 and Bob Baffert, then a relatively unknown trainer, made his first impact on the classic scene when he brought Santa Anita Derby winner Cavonnier to Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby. No one knew much about this former Quarter-Horse trainer, except that he generally trained sprinters until Cavonnier came along and he had a ...

No one can time the market with any consistency; often one finds himself at the corner of value and opportunity. That was the case just 13 months ago when the Taylor boys—Duncan, Ben, Frank, and Mark—and some of their Taylor Made Stallions clients took a shot by acquiring a 30% stake in California Chrome. California Chrome had been valued ...

Todd Pletcher’s once seemingly powerful army of 3-year-olds has pretty much disbanded, with some of the troops retreating from the battlefield, others spending time in sick bay, and two transferred to another outfit. By mid to late March, Pletcher’s Kentucky Derby hopefuls included Zulu, Outwork, Destin, Gettysburg, Stradivari, Rally Cry, Mo ...

Earlier this month the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation announced the completion of the organizational funding of the Ocala Initiative. The initiative was designed to garner support from horse farms and equine businesses, as well as individual donors, to advance equine research. Florida-based organizations raised $100,000, and we are ...

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 ...