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By Nicole Sauer The September issue of MarketWatch included profiles of eight sires that we considered to be undervalued based on their yearling averages, earnings per starter, and/or progeny statistics compared with their 2013 fees. Now that most 2014 fee announcements have been made, let's review the stallions and their current ...

The latest racing documentary, “Penny and Red,” directed, edited, and produced by John Tweedy and narrated by actress Diane Lane, is not your typical home movie with the same stock film clips of Secretariat and the same stories told for the umpteenth time by Tweedy’s mother, Penny Chenery. This actually is a no holds barred documentary, ...

The second week of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale was tough, but not in the way many have been accustomed to describing the commercial market in the wake of the Great Recession. Buyers were struggling during week one to fill orders—many unsuccessfully. So they were camped at Keeneland’s back walking ring without any tickets stuffed ...

Heroes are not always determined by statistics or even accomplishments. Heroism often comes from within, through an emotional link, and bestowed to those who hold a special meaning in people’s lives, whether on a national scale, like Zenyatta, Rachel Alexandra, and Secretariat or on a local level as in the case of Palace Malice. Aiken, S.C. has a ...

By Nicole Sauer This year’s Keeneland November sale realized significant gains in all categories, following the trend of growth seen in almost every major North American auction in 2013. Since 2008, the broodmare and weanling markets have been slower to rebound than yearlings, but Keeneland November made tremendous improvement this year and ...

Saturday Aqueduct, Race 7, Local Post Time 3:14 pm ETThe G3 Red Smith, 1 and 3/8 Miles, 3YO+, TurfBy Douglas Salvatore With a field of 13 horses assembled, the Red Smith Handicap is an extremely attractive betting race. The 11-furlong distance means that this race will be contested around three turns, with a fairly short run into the first turn, ...

There are a lot of angles to use when handicapping a horse race: trainer angles, jockey angles, pedigree angles, track surface plays, shippers, bias statistics, and speed figure patterns are some of the more popular, but chances are, if it's in the past performances then someone somewhere has a betting angle for it. In many ways, that was the ...