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While Redoute's Choice (AUS) (TrueNicks,SRO) has rapidly stamped himself as a sire of sires, his fellow Danehill son and erstwhile stud companion Flying Spur has been awaiting an heir. It now appears as if one may arrived in the shape of Casino Prince (AUS) (TrueNicks), who heads the Australia second-season sires list. He already has a star in the ...

(Originally published in the September 7, 2013 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) By Eric Mitchell - @BH_EMitchell on Twitter As Saratoga Race Course wrapped up a successful 40-day meet, residents of this upstate New York community began questioning ...

by Vic ZastIf anyone had doubts about what kind of racing surface awaited the 129 horses listed in the overnights for Saratoga’s final day, those doubts were obliterated at 6:25 AM Monday. A morning storm passed through the region in an hour and a half, but all hell broke loose in the first 15 minutes.  The rain fell so hard it created the ...

by Vic ZastHow will Saratoga’s 150th year of Thoroughbred horse racing be remembered?  Probably not by the cumulative effects of the many minor events that were organized.  But by the few standout days on which something out of the ordinary happened.No doubt this was the summer of Marylou Whitney.  She established her rightful place ...

by Vic ZastOnce upon a time, a little racecourse with brown wooden stands, a white linen table-clothed dining room and a winner’s circle drawn in chalk stood among the cooling pines of a quaint Victorian city at the edge of the Adirondacks. The racetrack's red and white trim was added recently, perhaps only 50 years ago.Gentlemen wore suits to ...

The Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes, Sunday, Saratoga, Two-Year Olds, Main Track, Seven FurlongsScheduled Post Time: 5:45 PM EDT Get free PP's for the Spinaway Five different horses in today's Spinaway have scored wire-to-wire victories at sprint distances shorter than today's seven furlong distance. The ''speed of the speed'' is unquestionably ...

You can turn on your TV as early as 9:00 AM to begin hearing tips from the handicappers.  There are several shows on Channel 12 with two hosts who rarely agree on selections.  Depending on how many horses they choose – three or four, each show is different – you are most likely to collect six or seven names to bet, which is like ...

Pace handicapping is actually a two-step process. The question is not ''How fast will they go,'' but (in the case of front runners), ''How fast can this horse go and still win?'' ''A lot of pace in the race'' doesn't set the race up for a closer if three front runners are gassed after a :22 first quarter and :45 half but a fourth horse is able ...

NYRA held two off-campus gatherings this week – the first which was billed as a public forum and the second a board meeting.  It was the first opportunity for new CEO Chris Kay to present what he’s done in his first 60 days. Despite his non-racing background, Kay seems to indicate that he’s cut from the same cloth as his predecessors, ...