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Racing fans of today embrace a different breed of hero than their predecessors back in the days when horses raced often and were rarely retired at 3. Sometimes, you have to wonder, what if some of those horses raced in today’s cyber world and accomplished the same feats they did back in their day. How would they be perceived? Most people ...

It sounds like something Yogi Berra would say, but in this recessionary economic time, many companies were in healthy financial shape until they weren’t. It is hard to imagine a company or business anywhere in the world that hasn’t been forced to make major decisions over the past 18 months due to the numerous factors that have impacted global ...

By Frank Vespe, That's Amore Stable, LLC  “It’s a beautiful day for a night game.” So said the Fordham Flash, baseball Hall of Famer Frankie Frisch, sometime around 1935.  Which almost makes it sound as if the good Jesuits at Fordham were churning out classes of Dizzy Dean-wannabes in the early part of the last century. Nonetheless, ...

Lucien Laurin, wearing a bright burgundy sport jacket, bent down to tighten the girth on Secretariat, and then placed the colt’s familiar blue and white checked blinkers on his head. Big Red stood motionless on the Pimlico grass course saddling area staring straight ahead, his muscle lines rippling and his golden chestnut coat as radiant as ever. ...

Carl Rollins is not a horse owner, breeder, trainer, nor jockey. He doesn’t work for a racetrack, sale company, racing organization, or bloodstock agent. He has never mucked a stall, hotwalked a horse, bred a mare, or broken a yearling. But Carl Rollins gets it—he understands the importance of the horse industry to Kentucky. For nearly 15 years ...

Rachel Alexandra will attempt to join a list of great fillies to have won past runnings of the Mother Goose. Rank these winners of this prestigious race: writeRanker(''http://i.bloodhorse.com/xml/ranking/mothergoosewinners.xml''); To participate, use your cursor to drag the selections on the left (currently arranged in ...

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It’s a shame Vincent O’Brien didn’t hang on a couple more weeks. The legendary Irish trainer, who died June 1 at age 91, would have loved the just-concluded Royal Ascot meeting, in particular the success enjoyed by American conditioner Wesley Ward. It was O’Brien, more than 40 years earlier, who showed American-bred horses could win major races ...

.commentForm, .postComments, #comments{display:none;} John Asher, vice president of Racing Communications at Churchill Downs, will be the featured guest on the next edition of Talkin' Horses, scheduled for taping on Wednesday, June 24. Asher has worked in the Thoroughbred racing industry as an award-winning journalist and ...

For 32 years I was able to say I was at Royal Ascot to witness history. Well, it’s history no more. It was 1977, my first trip to Ascot, and I was privileged to see the great stayer Sagaro become the first horse in the 170-year history of the Ascot Gold Cup to win the 2 1/2-mile race three times. To do it in successive years made the feat all the ...