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A chilly, cloudless October morning at Beautiful Belmont provided the setting for trainer Bill Mott and his band of Breeders' Cup big guns. First it was Royal Delta who hit the track at 6:45 for her half-mile work, followed by Flat Out, then Ron the Greek, and finally To Honor and Serve, who completes Mott's imposing trio for the Breeders' Cup ...

The $300,000 Hawthorne Derby (G3) on Saturday drew a field of 12, plus two also-eligibles to the south side of Chicago. Carded as Hawthorne's 8th race, post time is 6:40 ET. 1 Film Shot is out of the great turf mare Film Maker. Grade 3-placed, he doesn't quite have his dam's class...He came through on the ...

Checking the TrueNicks website, we were somewhat shocked to find just how many new sires have already been declared for the 2013 breeding season. There is quite a lot to keep track of, so to try and ensure none get overlooked when making breeding plans for 2013, here is a very quick overview of the new sires of 2013 that are currently enrolled on ...

Bob Burton kept fiddling with his cell phone until he found what he was looking for. There was something he had stored away that was very special to him and he wanted to share it. When he finally found it, he turned on his speaker phone and played back the message he had received in September, 2010 from his longtime buddy Jack Wolf, who was ...

Last year a door opened for the pari-mutuel industry, leading to an opportunity for racetracks to expand their gaming options and potentially boost revenue and purses. But too few have even bothered to look through the door, let alone pass through. That doorway leads to Internet gambling, and, in at least one gaming executive’s ...

By Earl Ola Allen Jerkens pointed to a fitter, sturdier animal as another reason why bleeding was considered atypical in the 1950s and 1960s. He said none of his good horses were bleeders. ''Horses worked a lot harder in those days,” Jerkins said. “The strain on them in the race wasn’t as much as the strain is on them now. They trained almost ...

Mares in Japan Part 2: California Girls, with Kate Hunter The Yoshidas are looking for all sorts of top horses, not just Kentucky blue bloods. One state that they have been interested in has been California. They have purchased six state-breds since 2006, including three by soon to be five time leading California sire Unusual Heat. Moscow ...

One would think a state whose racing and breeding industry is struggling to regain its footing wouldn't be involved in a battle over racing dates, but such is the case in Kentucky. This one is hard to figure out, particularly given what's at stake: a viable, organized year-round Thoroughbred racing circuit that accommodates horses–and their owners ...

How can an owner who finishes second in all three Triple Crown races, two of them in photos; loses the Pimlico Special by a nose; and loses his three best horses to injury claim to have had his greatest year ever? Ahmed Zayat hasn’t come right out and made such a claim, but the truth is, 2012 has indeed been his best year as an owner, because ...

Fifteen 3-year-old fillies lined up for the Prix Charles Laffitte at Chantilly Oct. 3. At the end of the 10-furlong listed event, Baino Rock (Rock of Gibraltar—Baino Ridge, by Highest Honor), a homebred for Isaam Fares’ Haras de Manneville, easily defeated her rivals to land her first black-type race. Her dominating performance also served to ...