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One of my all-time favorite racing movies was on TV last week, and it got me thinking about some of the great flicks about The Sport of Kings, and some of the big disappointments. Racing movies actually are making a comeback after being so popular in the 1930s and ‘40s, and even into the ‘50s. In a relatively short period of time, we’ve had ...

The New York Racing Association went through a year of turmoil in 2012, a year of rebuilding in 2013, and now is entering a year of experimentation. As is the nature of all experiments, not all of them will fly, but that’s OK as long as new ideas continue being tried. NYRA CEO Chris Kay kicked off the 40th annual Arizona Global Symposium on ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 11, 2013) -- Twenty-five races remain on the Road to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), with the Jan. 4 Jerome Stakes (gr. II) at Aqueduct and the Jan. 11 Sham (gr. III) at Santa Anita Park kicking off the action in 2014. Here's a look at how the winners of last year's prep races fared after their victories, ...

Saturday Betfair Hollywood Park, Race 9, Local Post Time 4:35pm PTThe G1 CashCall Futurity, 1 and 1/16 Miles, 2YO, SynthBy Justin FinchThe Grade 1 Cash Call Futurity will be run against a poignant backdrop as Betfair Hollywood Park approaches its end. And one should add that it approaches it with some style, as this is a very interesting edition ...

Inner visions, horses not fast Innervisions, put my money on blast Lots of racing for handicapping Lots of horses for losing money Inner visions here to stay To, uh oh, those long winter nights I could go on-especially since the next verse includes the command, ''Tell me more; tell me more,'' but you get the gist: if Keeneland and Kentucky ...

The winnowing of graded and listed black-type stakes in the United States continues.Last week the American Graded Stakes Committee released its list of 645 graded and listed stakes for 2014. The total is nearly 11% fewer than was recognized in 2010. Over the past five years the number of graded stakes has dipped from 487 to 455 while the number ...

I posed this question on Twitter, on ''At The Races'' w/ Steve Byk, and in the Brisnet.com weekend preview, and still have not received a definitive answer: Does thisweekend (it's happening Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) mark the first time that Calder Race Course, Guflstream Park, and Tampa Bay Downs are conducting racingat the same time? If ...

Saturday Betfair Hollywood Park, Race 6, Local Post Time 3:04pm PTThe G1 Hollywood Starlet Stakes, 1 and 1/16 Miles, Fillies, 2YO, SynthBy Justin FinchThe Grade 1 Hollywood Starlet has eight two-year-old fillies and almost as many question marks. There have been stronger editions of this race, to be sure, but this edition, the final one, stands ...

After looking the past two years for a viable Horse of the Year candidate who ran on dirt and being unable to find one, I realize just how sad that is. The thought of not being able to find a single dirt horse in two years worthy of a Horse of the Year title is staggering to someone who goes back to the ‘60s and has seen that crown worn by so many ...