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Go Angellica sauntered through the stretch to win the Weatherbys Bloodstock Insurance Stonehenge Stakes at Salisbury Aug. 31. Bred by Rabbah Bloodstock in Ireland, the chestnut filly is owned by Ahmed Jaber and trained by David Simcock. Ridden by Eddie Ahern, Go Angellica took the mile event by a half-length. Califante (by Kyllachy) finished ...

Steeplechase racing makes every Thursday special.  But this Thursday there were two steeplechase races and at least two other occurrences to make the day extra special.   As part of the 11-race card, Saratoga hosted the grade II, $200,000 With Anticipation Stakes and the debut of Archwarrior.  Archwarrior, of course, was Alto ...

A huge weekend of racing lies ahead, and as I go through the weekend cards, I find myself most excited about watching the two-year-old races. I love seeing the future of the sport unfold. On Saturday, Executiveprivilege is the 4-to-5 morning line favorite in the Del Mar Debutante. She was the first two-year-old filly to catch ...

(By Avalyn Hunter) While this year's Fasig-Tipton yearling sale at Saratoga was down somewhat, optimism is still widespread in the 2012 yearling market thanks to solid performances at regional sales. From Minnesota to Florida, average and median prices for young horses have been either holding steady or gaining over 2011 standards. But before ...

This week we launched a few of our newest TrueNicks features. When you run a TrueNicks hypothetical mating with one of our 700+ subscribed stallions, you'll see that the page header contains quick buttons to Email, Save, or Print the report. There are also buttons to Tweet, Google+, and Facebook recommend the mating. Here's how the entire header ...

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 ...