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By Lisa Grimm, Superfectablog.com It's typically an extremely rare occurrence when my worlds collide - oddly, this is the second time it has happened this year. As many in the archival world know, I write about horse racing. And some in the horse racing world have a vague idea that I'm an archivist, but people in both spheres are ...

This year's Perfect Trip Award will recognize a Breeders' Cup Challenge race winner from this season's North American races that best exemplifies a ''Perfect Trip''. The winner will be selected from a panel of racing experts and will have the opportunity to experience his or her own ''Perfect Trip'' through Sentient Jet, with complimentary ...

This year's Perfect Trip Award will recognize a Breeders' Cup Challenge race winner from this season's North American races that best exemplifies a ''Perfect Trip''. The winner will be selected from a panel of racing experts and will have the opportunity to experience his or her own ''Perfect Trip'' through Sentient Jet, with ...

Horse racing doesn't produce much better feel-good stories than Monday's fourth race.  Danni Hodsdon, who rides first call for Jonathan Sheppard's steeplechase runners, convinced the trainer to enter Sermon of Love in a flat race and then begged him to ride.  Well, you know the rest of the story - they won! The bettors didn't ...

What an array of stakes and talent we saw this weekend. When you have the winners of all three Triple Crown races, and the Dubai World Cup, and the Breeders' Cup Mile and Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf, and the Florida and Arkansas Derby winners, and the Beldame winner, not to mention one of the greatest fillies of all time, you know ...

Godolphin's mud-loving filly by Street Cry won the Go For Wand.  But the filly on television in the Haskell had the fans tipping their ''Hats Off to Saratoga'' caps in approval. The tan Alabama Stakes ball cap that was given to all paying patrons on Sunday was the first of only four giveaways that Saratoga horse racing fans have a ...

By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRAFirst, I want to thank everyone who responded to my last blog entitled ''Strategic Thinking.''  The overwhelming response I received from so many of you speaks volumes about the passion and enthusiasm of racing's fans.  Rest assured that I personally have read every ...

Guest blog - by Brian Zipse Miss Woodford, Beldame, Regret, Busher, Twighlight Tear, Gallorette, Gamely, Dark Mirage, Gallant Bloom, Shuvee, Susan's Girl, Desert Vixen, Ruffian, Genuine Risk, Princess Rooney, Lady's Secret, Personal Ensign and Go For Wand. The greatest females of American racing. These fillies and mares so dominated their ...