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  Spalding Labs Offering Free ''Guide To Fly Control,''  Booklet To Animal Owners Seeking Pesticide Free Solutions. Due To Increasing Concerns About The Impact Of Toxic Pesticides, Spalding Labs Is Offering A Free, 32 Page Guide, Which Explains How To Organically Eliminate Flies, ...

With over 580,000 TrueNicks reports generated so far in 2012, it's always interesting to look at what the numbers are telling us. Logically, the number of TrueNicks reports per stallion fluctuates according to the stallion's popularity among breeders. For example, see the chart below and notice what happened on the week ending 3/25, when Tapit ...

The following is a photo gallery of a typical morning with Belmont Stakes contender Union Rags. All photos by Steve Haskin Union Rags in paddock after gallop Union Rags bright and alert Feeling good Anxious to get it on Maintaining his flesh beautifully Looking good Heading to the ...

OK, let’s get this straight, just to make sure we’re not all being Punk’d. The California Horse Racing Board, in all its divine wisdom, has decided to dredge up a nearly two-year-old carbon dioxide overage on a Doug O’Neill-trained horse and make a ruling on it two weeks before O’Neill will attempt to sweep the Triple Crown with I’ll Have Another, ...

With his induction into the Hall of Fame today here is a reprint of Lava Man's story from May 23, 2012. In Sept. 2008, it was announced that Lava Man was going to be retired to Old Friends. It never happened. He had been turned out briefly on a small farm and all those around him stated emphatically that he hated it. The sedentary life wasn’t for ...

(Originally published in the May 26, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)   Daniel Fuchs is a former Montana legislator and managing partner of Magic City Thoroughbreds. By Daniel FuchsMy memory of standing on concrete stairs at the Billings, ...

(Originally published in the May 26, 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 - @BlackCat30 on Twitter The May 19 Preakness Stakes (gr. I) was a special moment in our sport—an “Instant Classic.” If watching I’ll Have Another reel in ...

(Originally published in the May 26, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  by Esther MarrIn the early 1970s, about 10 years after Carlo Vaccarezza had immigrated to the United States from his native Genoa, Italy, he found himself walking hots and ...

The ominous shroud that has engulfed Thoroughbred racing recently is starting to lift, at least temporarily, thanks to the heroics of a golden chestnut colt named I’ll Have Another, who has come along at the perfect time to remind people that there is so much more to the Sport of Kings than what has been portrayed in certain publications. These ...

At the end of 2011, the French-based sire Turtle Bowl drew some attention to himself when his son French Fifteen took the Criterium International (gr. I) to propel Turtle Bowl to a position as leading freshman sire and leading sire of 2-year-olds in France. Promising as that start was, it is the events of the last two weekends that have made it ...