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With Santa Anita shrouded in fog for most of the morning, Breeders’ Cup horses went about their business as usual, as many of the Europeans took to the track for the first time. At 1:30 in the afternoon, the final shipment of horses arrived…finally, having escaped from New York on a flight from Stewart Air Force Base in Newburgh, N.Y. Among ...

I admit it is dangerous and almost counterproductive to form opinions on a race weeks or months in advance, but I make two exceptions to that rule -- the Kentucky Derby and the Breeders' Cup. The leadup to the Derby is horse racing's greatest journey. The most exciting two minutes in sports is preceded by a minimum two months ...

When Chad Reed's parents gave him a $5,000 budget to pick out a mare at the 2009 Keeneland November mixed sale at age 11, he never dreamed it would eventually result in a Breeders' Cup starter. But that's exactly what happened when the adolescent Thoroughbred enthusiast signed the ticket for the Carson City mare Golden Kitty with his father, ...

Patti and Dean Reeves have been at Santa Anita for a few days. All that’s missing is their horse. According to Dean, Mucho Macho Man was scheduled to leave Belmont Park with the final group of New York horses Wednesday morning at 4:45 and, like the previous shipment, van up to Newburgh, N.Y. and fly to Louisville out of Stewart Air Force Base. ...

(Originally published in the November 3, 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 Thoroughbred racing has certainly taken its lumps over the years for not embracing television in the early years. Who knows ...

It was quite an arduous journey, but the Bill Mott- and Chad Brown-trained horses, along with Point of Entry, finally arrived at Santa Anita at 9:15 Monday morning following an 11-hour trip.With the New York airports nearly shut down, the horses boarded a van at 10:30 at Belmont Park and headed upstate to Stewart Air Force Base in Newburgh, N.Y., ...

It was a tale of two coasts Sunday morning. On the west coast, an invigorating chill in the air; a bright blue, cloudless sky; the San Gabriel mountains so clear and sharp it was as if you could reach out and touch them; hundreds of people gathered at Clocker’s Corner as dozens upon dozens of horses decked out in Breeders’ Cup saddle towels ...

Animal Kingdom at Keeneland Oct. 26 (C. Novak) ARCADIA, CA -- If his trainer were another—less conservative, less reserved—you’d be inclined to doubt the legitimacy of Animal Kingdom’s upcoming bid at the Nov. 3 Breeders’ Cup Mile (gr. IT) at Santa Anita Park. You might wonder how the 2011 Kentucky Derby winner could possibly return to the ...