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There were three stakes races, each with a purse of $100,000, on Wednesday.  But it was a maiden special weight 1 1/16 mile turf race run between the second and third stakes that took the prize for the most exciting.  The 21-1 Hedonemewrongsong, a bay 2-year-old filly by Bluegrass Cat trained by Jonathan Sheppard, topped a superfecta ...

Mucho Macho Man at Saratoga Race Course, Aug. 12, 2012 (C. Novak)TAKE Mucho Macho Man, posing in the shadows of a tree-lined path at Saratoga Race Course, out of this decade and roll him back to the past. The lanky bay brings to mind racing's glory days; runners like Late Bloomer, Bowl Game, Stage Door Johnny, and Key to the Mint. That will to ...

Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012, Coolmore-based stallion Galileo certainly proved he had quite a six-pack. On this red-letter day the 14-year-old son of Sadler’s Wells out of the Miswaki mare Urban Sea was responsible for six winners from 14 group or listed stakes races run in Europe, three of them new additions to his already starry firmament. In ...

Freelance horse racing writer Teresa Genaro epitomizes a press corps that never puts its pencils down.  Her work is popping up all over, from the pages of Forbes, to The Saratogian, to The Blood-Horse−a spread that’s as wide as the Hudson.   On Monday, the indefatigable reporter had a front page story about the planned modernization of ...

(Originally published in the September 1, 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 The Juddmonte International Stakes (Eng-I) Aug. 22 at York Racecourse (View photos here) had no shot to be considered ...

I received a beautifully written column recently from a Facebook acquaintance and horse enthusiast Erika Parry, which is being printed below as a guest blog. Erika’s stirring words inspired me not only to publish her story about her relationship with her father, but to briefly acknowledge something I should have acknowledged a long time ago. As a ...

It seems as though Ken and Resia Ayres and the mare Pyramyst are meant to be together. The Kentucky homebred by Pyramid Peak out of the General Assembly mare Almost Mystical failed to bring her $3,200 reserve price at the 2003 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling sale, broke loose, and ran around the sale grounds. It was hardly an auspicious ...

Are we are making progress in addressing the issue of race day medication in the United States? That’s a question I hear a lot these days.  My answer to that question is a qualified “yes.”  You see, in June of 2011, the NTRA -- together with the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC) and the American Association of Equine ...

What a difference a day made. Saratoga Racecourse went from being wall-to-wall with fans on Saturday to being a barren oasis on Sunday.  The exodus has begun.  Starting Monday you’ll be able to see the horse transport semis on the backstretch.  By Friday - the start of the Final Stretch weekend, it’ll seem like fall and you’ll ...

The first words from trainer Kiaran McLaughlin at the post-Travers press conference were, “What are they going to do with the canoe?” A Mohican on patrol at the Wishing Well in search of the tribe’s missing Chief Louis was told by a New York State racing official that there are going to be two. One will be painted in Godolphin Racing blue; ...