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(Originally published in the October 27, 2012 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 Recently completed at Keeneland is what has become one of Thoroughbred racing’s most important annual events—the Welfare and ...

Barbara Banke of Stonestreet Stables and Kentucky-based bloodstockconsultant John Moynihan tried to buy Darwin (by Big Brown) at the Fasig-TiptonFlorida select sale of 2-year-olds in training earlier this year. But Demi O'Byrnewon the bidding battle, getting the handsome colt for the sale-topping price of$1.3 million. Darwin made his career debut ...

On a week when much will be written about the great Frankel (Galileo–Kind, by Danehill) as he retires to Juddmonte Farms to serve his first season at stud in 2013, this writer had pause to reflect on the outstanding performance of his broodmare sire, Danehill, who has thus far proved himself a phenomenon as a sire and broodmare sire in two ...

With Frankel having run his final race and retiring undefeated following another sensational score in the QIPCO Champion Stakes, we thought we would update our column on the son of Galileo and his namesake that ran last October and add a few new twists to it. Well, there’s no escaping it now. Frankelstein cannot be destroyed. Racing’s ...

There was a column written recently about the “decline” of the American superstar and the “ascendancy” of the English superstar. According to the column, America’s “liberal use of drugs” is the culprit for the U.S. decline, while the exportation to England of young horses with Northern Dancer blood was said to be the contributing factor to the ...

Godolphin Racing's Fortify, who has raced without Lasix in all three of his career starts, could be the only horse in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) who won't be racing ''Lasix off'' on championship day. The Breeders' Cup will not allow any two-year-olds to race on the anti-bleeding medication at this year's event, which will take place ...

(Originally published in the October 20, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) By Evan Hammonds - @BH_EHammonds on Twitter Love or hate the two-day, 15-race Breeders’ Cup format, the addition of a pair of turf races for 2-year-olds has opened up a ...

 Triple Crown Nutrition's New Chat Feature Dramatically Improves Response Time to Horse Owners Horse Feed & Nutrition Questions. In their ongoing effort to better connect with horse owners, Triple Crown Nutrition is the first ''horse feed'' company to offer an online chat feature.  Now, when you've got important questions about ...

Lexington, Ky. – October 16, 2012 - Steve Haskin, Senior Correspondent for The Blood-Horse, was a guest on Talkin’ Horses with The Blood-Horse live podcast at 2 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 23. Haskin discussed his insight and thoughts on this year's Breeders' Cup. Steve Haskin is an award-winning Turf writer renowned for his Kentucky Derby ...

A light, steady rain fell as the Cooper Horse Transport van pulled up to the barn at Bruce Jackson’s Fair Hill Equine Therapy Center, located a stone’s throw from Graham Motion’s Herringswell Stable barn.Inside the van, Paynter, wearing a thick green blanket, was getting anxious as preparation for unloading began. From Upstate Equine Medical ...