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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 ...

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 ...