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  • March 16, 2019 - Transportation: Big Wheels

    Transportation— Big Wheels by Amanda Duckworth TEN YEARS AGO Mine That Bird stunned everyone when he took the Run for the Roses at odds at 50-1. A most unlikely winner of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1), part of his story wasn't just how he won, it was how he got there in the first place.   Download this week's ...
    Posted to Health Zone (FileGallery) by Michelle Benson on 04-02-2019

  • March 9, 2019 - Southeast: Day in the Sun

    Eight new stallions make their way to Florida for 2019 By Evan Hammonds THE FACTS AND FIGURES regarding the Thoroughbred breeding industry in Florida have been pretty much on par with those in the rest of the country.  Download this week's Regional to continue reading.
    Posted to The Blood-Horse Regionals (FileGallery) by Michelle Benson on 03-26-2019

  • Winx and the Midnight Express

    In the Eastern time zone of the United States, horse racing shuts down around six o'clock p.m. As night falls, all is quiet on the backstretches from New York to Florida. The horses are asleep, the lights are dimmed, the barns are empty of people except for a nightwatchman patrolling the shed row. But a few times a year in homes of racing fans up ...
    Posted to Hangin' With Haskin (Weblog) by Michelle Benson on 03-25-2019

  • March 2, 2019 - Midwest/Canada: Taming The West

    Pierre Esquirol makes a go of it in western Canada  By Jennifer Morrison YOU CAN'T KEEP A PASSIONATE, hard-working horseman down. Pierre Esquirol is as determined a Thoroughbred breeder as you will meet, some-one who has ridden the highs and lows of the business and continues to reinvent his program not just for his own gain but in the ...
    Posted to The Blood-Horse Regionals (FileGallery) by Michelle Benson on 03-19-2019

  • March 2, 2019 - Northeast/Mid-Atlantic: Going Uptown

     Bob Hutt enjoys the ride with Uptowncharlybrown By Lenny Shulman BOB HUTT ADMITS he insisted on standing his stakes-winning chestnut Uptowncharlybrown at stud for the wrong reason, at least from a business sense. He wanted to honor the memory of his longtime friend and the colt's original racetrack trainer, Alan Seewald, who died in ...
    Posted to The Blood-Horse Regionals (FileGallery) by Michelle Benson on 03-19-2019

  • J.B., Silver Charm, and American Pharoah

    The racing and breeding world was shocked to learn of the death at age 53 of J.B. McKathan, who along with his brother Kevin, helped propel the comet known as Bob Baffert back in 1996, while establishing the McKathan Brothers Farm in Ocala as one of the best classrooms for young 2-year-olds to get their start. It was Baffert’s good fortune to ...
    Posted to Hangin' With Haskin (Weblog) by Michelle Benson on 02-03-2019

  • Big News - By Evan Hammonds

    In the winter of 1997, Joe Hirsch began a column in Daily Racing Form: “Pulpit, Pulpit, Pulpit. That’s all people are talking about.” The legendary Turf writer was musing on the buzz in South Florida surrounding Claiborne Farm’s colt as the son of A.P. Indy worked his way along the Triple Crown trail.In 2018 racing people were talking a lot about ...
    Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Michelle Benson on 12-18-2018

  • Sam Riddle Tells Inside Story of Purchasing Man o’War

    Mary Simon, three-time Eclipse Award winner and one of the sport’s most noted historians, brought out an old box of papers she hadn’t looked at in many years and placed it on the living room floor. She had no idea what was in there, just basically old papers she had saved. Among the contents, secured by a small rusted paper clip, were a number of ...
    Posted to Hangin' With Haskin (Weblog) by Michelle Benson on 12-11-2018

  • Weep No More For Graded Stakes Committee

    The weeping is over. The complaining fruitless. So just accept the direction Thoroughbred Racing is heading. The American Graded Stakes Committee is no doubt comprised of knowledgeable, intelligent people who know what they are doing and follow their formulas and equations with great awareness when juggling graded stakes, especially those rated ...
    Posted to Hangin' With Haskin (Weblog) by Michelle Benson on 12-02-2018

  • Giving Thanks For Justify

    In the days leading up to the 1979 Belmont Stakes, with Spectacular Bid having dominated his opposition in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, if someone had asked you to give thanks that we were about to witness a Triple Crown winner, you might have been inclined to laugh in their face.“Big deal,” you might have said. “So we have another ...
    Posted to Hangin' With Haskin (Weblog) by Michelle Benson on 11-21-2018
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