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Muscatine, Iowa - July 5, 2013 - Kent Nutrition Group and Blue Seal introduce the expanded Dynasty line of performance horse feed. Dynasty is a full line of pellets, textured and XT (shredded beet pulp and extruded super-fiber nugget) products. The horse needs nutrients to grow and develop, progress, gain strength and stamina, and maintain tissue ...

(Originally published in the August 17, 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 The day before Fasig-Tipton’s select yearling sale in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the auction company’s president Boyd Browning Jr. had ...

There is a French saying that translates as something like ''the more things change, the more they say the same.'' Plenty has changed in the macro- and micro-economic climates since last year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling sale, but despite the various undercurrents, as far as numbers sold, totals, and average, we ended up more or less in the ...

Saratoga’s on the downside of its sesquicentennial meet.  All-sources handle is up.  Good weather, which has been keeping races on the turf and horses from scratching, is at fault.  There is still plenty of heart-pounding horse racing ahead.  The fine Kentucky Derby (gr. I) winner Orb is in the house, settled in and ...

For owners and trainers of 2-year-olds, autumn means a look into the proverbial crystal ball and seeing images beginning to take shape of the following spring’s classic horses, and sometimes even beyond. Last autumn appeared no different. On Nov. 2, Beholder’s victory over grade I winners Executiveprivilege and Dreaming of Julia and grade II ...

Overshadowed by equine medication issues at the Aug. 11 Jockey Club Round Table was a presentation on Thoroughbred racing in Ireland by Horse Racing Ireland chief executive Brian Kavanagh, who signaled increased competition for the Breeders' Cup World Championships. Though not designed to compete with the Breeders' Cup, the ''Irish Champions ...

With the first two major summer yearling sales in the books, we'll take a quick look at the top 10 commercial sires of 2013 by yearling average and ponder on the potential for them to extend their lines. The millennial stallion crop, whose first foals were born in 2000, included Awesome Again (TrueNicks,SRO), Indian Charlie, Elusive Quality ...

by Vic Zast Someone who knows more about epiphanies can perhaps explain why The Jockey Club has risen from its marketing doldrums.  Harvey Pack, the wise-aleck horse racing color man, used to joke that the organization’s Round Table Conference, held on Sunday for the 61st time, was for squares that couldn’t excite coffee. But earlier this ...

The following is a much condensed version of a four-part feature I wrote 28 years ago during my first year as a feature writer for DRF. I reprinted a shortened version of it six years ago, but several people who never read it have expressed an interest in reading it and I felt others who missed it the first time might enjoy taking a peek into ...