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(Originally published in the March 17, 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 - @EJMitchellKy on Twitter The select 2-year-old in training sales don’t need to set any records in 2012. What would serve the commercial market best ...

 (Originally published in the March 17, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) Adam Wachtel is no newbie to the Thoroughbred world. As a child, he was introduced to the industry by his father, prominent New York owner Ed Wachtel, and he grew up on the ...

The NTRA is collaborating with The Jockey Club to create a new, fan-centric website. This collaboration is a continuation of the joint marketing and promotions initiatives that our organizations began last year with the expansion of NTRA Communications. The new site – which in many ways will be a re-branding of NTRA.com - will ...

[brightcove videoid=''1503035408001''] 1 Creative Cause Mike Harrington Giant's Causeway—Dream of Summer, by Siberian Summer Yes, he’s back in his familiar No. 1 spot, with all due respect to Rags. I just needed to see him take that important second step, and he used the San Felipe as a perfect prep to move forward again in the Santa ...

Press the Play button below to listen to the full interview. Sponsored by War Horse Place. When 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta produced a healthy colt by Bernardini at William S. Farish’s Lane’s End Farm near Versailles, Ky., it marked another chapter in the storied career of the popular mare owned by Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Moss. Managing ...

While we are only in the first few weeks of the Northern Hemisphere breeding season, stallion masters in Australia are already at work on recruiting new stallions to their rosters for the 2012 breeding season, which begins in the Northern Hemisphere summer. The first of these to appear on TrueNicks is Smart Missile (TrueNicks), who will be ...

The Derby trail is a perilous one, with all who travel on it exposed to its many obstacles and heartaches. It is where the strong are rewarded and the weak are gobbled up and spit out.The trail is laid out to provide all travelers with numerous stopping off points along the way – each one being an opportunity to rev up the engines and continue ...

The OBS March 2-Year-Old in Training Sale offers the first chance to get a preview of juveniles by many of the year’s freshman sire crop. Two of the biggest names in that group, the classic-winning champions Big Brown (TrueNicks,SRO) and Curlin (TrueNicks,SRO) are both represented. Although he only started once at 2 – winning by 11 ¼ lengths on ...

Trivia question: Which prep race has had the most impact on the Kentucky Derby over the past five years? If you guessed the Florida Derby, Arkansas Derby, or any of the other ''major'' preps, you would be wrong. The answer is the Tampa Bay Derby. Since 2006, the Tampa Bay Derby, which only became a grade II race last year, has produced two ...

When life dealt Carmel Heitzman a near-fatal blow, she turned her adversity into something positive for the horse industry. Heitzman was badly injured at the Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots last February when kicked by a horse in front of the winner’s circle after her husband, trainer Eric Heitzman's horse won a race. Her condition required ...