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Sunday Betfair Hollywood Park, Race 8, Local Post Time 4:07pm PTThe G1 Matriarch Stakes, 1 Mile, Fillies and Mares, 3+, TurfBy Justin Finch The final Matriarch, like so many before it, will be a good one. The nine-horse field contains four Grade 1 winners and is loaded with accomplished fillies and mares. At time of writing, the forecast is that ...

What are you thankful for in horse racing this season? A particular runner, race, person? Respond w/ #thanksracing hashtag— Claire Novak (@BH_CNovak) November 27, 2013 LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 27, 2013) -- It's hard to believe the year is winding to an end; feels like just yesterday we were gearing up for Triple Crown prep season and now it's ...

Aqueduct cancelled today (Wednesday, November 27), which is good news for all the other tracks running because some of the $6-million in handle Aqueduct would have done today (based on last year's Thanksgiving Eve total) will end up in other pools. That includes my money, as a $2,990 Pick 4 carryover at Portland Meadows and a five-stakes program ...

New Jersey horse racing began a new chapter the evening of Nov. 23 amid snow squalls and a wind-chill factor in the teens. And no one seemed to mind. New Meadowlands, which cost about $88 million to build, held its first live harness racing program. The facility, which has a dining and sports bar focus, is about one-third the size of the original ...

On Jan. 1, 2014, 177 North American stakes will lose their black-type status and more races are headed for the chopping block in the years ahead. The winners and placers of these races in 2014 and beyond will lose the right to have their names literally appear in heavy bold-face type on an auction catalog page because the quality of the ...

This is an expanded version of a feature that appears in the November 30, 2013 issue of The Blood-Horse.This year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic victory by Mucho Macho Man provided enough uplifting human interest stories to fill a book. But there actually is another lesser known story surrounding the son of Macho Uno that also packs quite an emotional ...

Saturday Delta Downs, Race 7, Local Post Time 4:15 pm CSTThe G3 Delta Downs Jackpot, 1 and 1/16 Miles, 2YO, DirtBy Douglas SalvatoreAfter many years of disappointing editions, everything finally clicked for the Delta Jackpot last year. The 2012 edition of this race was won in brilliant front-running fashion by Goldencents. He defeated a very ...

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 ...