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  • Haskin's Derby Trail: Shakin It Up on Silver Alert

    Bob Baffert has taken numerous paths to the Kentucky Derby, but perhaps the one he’ll remember most fondly is the one taken by his first Derby winner, Silver Charm. Looking back, the path Silver Charm took was not a conventional one, considering at this point, he had never run farther than seven furlongs. Well, don’t look now, but with all ...
    Posted to Hangin' With Haskin (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 02-21-2013

  • Derby preps get serious

    Two horses will earn their way into the Kentucky Derby (G1) this weekend, as the Fountain of Youth (G2) and Risen Star (G2) stakes both offer 50 Kentucky Derby qualifying points to the winner.As convoluted as the new points system is, it appears safe to say that 50 points will make the field.Unfortunately, I think the public will choose ...
    Posted to Unlocking Winners (Weblog) by Pete Denk on 02-21-2013

  • 2/23/2013 Northeast/Mid Atlantic Regional: First Edition

    Vivien Malloy enjoys New York’s revival by Claire Novak It Is foaling season at Edition Farm, and in the deeply straw-bedded stalls of a cozy barn, the miracle of new life occurs. As a mare stretches around to greet her newborn foal, 80-year-old Vivien Malloy is there, her soothing voice encouraging mother, welcoming child. “Oh, you did such a ...
    Posted to The Blood-Horse Regionals (FileGallery) by aspradling on 02-20-2013

  • Looking Like We Care - by Eric Mitchell

    (Originally published in the February 23, 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 “If your facility does not meet the standards that (fans) come to expect in their daily lives, they’re not going to come ...
    Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by aspradling on 02-20-2013

  • Derby Dozen - February 19, 2013 - Presented by Shadwell Farm

    1 Violence Todd Pletcher Medaglia d’Oro—Violent Beauty, by Gone West Finally makes his 3-year-old debut in Fountain of Youth Stakes. Normally, a good second or third would be encouraging enough, but he has a big class edge, with only a few stakes horses entered, and he should win considering how revved up Pletcher’s horses have come out ...
    Posted to Steve Haskin's Derby Dozen (Weblog) by aspradling on 02-19-2013

  • Haskin's Derby Trail: Play the Palace

    In 1971, when Cot Campbell started the concept of buying horses at auction for the purpose of forming syndicates, he had to watch one of his first rejects, Canonero II, who he turned down for $1,200 because of a crooked leg, win the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. Now that Campbell has announced his retirement from syndicates at age 84 after ...
    Posted to Hangin' With Haskin (Weblog) by aspradling on 02-18-2013

  • Successfully Promoting American Horse Racing

    Editor's Note: Be sure to also read ''Not in the Same Ballpark,'' in the Feb. 23 issue of Blood-Horse. Frank Angst explores how far racetracks have fallen behind other professional sports stadiums and arenas in terms of offering clean, attractive and modern amenities.   By Earl Abraham Ola Before going overseas I learned that while less ...
    Posted to The Racing Hub (Weblog) by EJMitchellKy on 02-18-2013

  • Una epoca de actividad en Turfway Park en febrero

    Por Tom LaMarraTurfway Park ha decidido correr cuatro días adicionales en febrero, lo que significa que habrá continuidad para la duración de su competencia de invierno/primavera.  Turfway estuvo programado para correr sólo los dos primeros fines de semana (viernes y sábados) en febrero, y luego ser oscuro hasta el 1 de marzo.  La ...
    Posted to Blood-Horse en Español (Weblog) by erica12218 on 02-18-2013

  • Tendencias positivas en prueba de fenilbutazona

    Por Personal de Blood-Horse Una revisión reciente por el Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) revela los registros de violaciones de los nueve estados que redujeron el umbral de fenilbutazona de cinco microgramos por mililitro de plasma, hasta el nivel recomendado por el RMTC de dos microgramos tenían resultados que revelan un menor ...
    Posted to Blood-Horse en Español (Weblog) by EJMitchellKy on 02-15-2013

  • Jimmy Jones

    The charm of horse racing lies primarily in the animals that do it—their beauty, grace, power and their degree of class. But there is an undeniable attraction to the colorful human beings that make it happen. The purpose of this blog is to share my stories about some of these characters. My requisites in the selection: I had dealings with ...
    Posted to Stories from Cot Campbell (Weblog) by EJMitchellKy on 02-15-2013
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