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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 ...

Fasig-Tipton has been long known for allowing consignors to push the envelope by accepting supplemented horses into a sale well after the entry deadline has passed. All sale companies worldwide have accepted supplemental entries to some extent for years, but Fasig-Tipton pushed this concept even further this summer with an inaugural Horses of ...

Who can say for sure when Mucho Macho became a Man? After all, he was a precocious 2-year-old, despite being a giant of a horse, and was good enough to finish second in the Nashua and Remsen Stakes, even though he was a June 15 foal. How could a horse that big and gangly, and that young and immature, perform the way he did so early in ...

It is November and that means T-Time – Thanksgiving, Turkey….Twin Spires?Those two inverted drumsticks atop Churchill Downs will be playing a major part in the holiday season this year with the expansion of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager. Now, those who can’t get an early enough start on Derby fever can make their first Future Wager bets from ...