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(Originally published in the January 28, 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   While we realize it’s still only January and foaling season has just gotten underway, it’s hard not to turn our attention to daydreaming about the ...

(Originally published in the January 28, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) He hasn’t campaigned a stakes winner since Charmo took the San Francisco Breeders’ Cup Mile Stakes (gr. IIT) at Golden Gate Fields in 2006, but this weekend David Milch will be ...

Remember Shannon Hahn of Double L Stable in New York? You guys have been gracious enough to send the horses at her rescue facility Valentine’s Day cards containing $1 the last couple of years. Hahn has once again requested our help with this annual fundraiser and I quickly obliged considering all she has done for Thoroughbreds in need. As ...

How big a role does pedigree play nowadays in determining the Kentucky Derby winner? With fewer stamina-oriented stallions, there was for a while more of a tendency to look at the female family in determining a horse’s chances of getting a mile and a quarter, knowing that speed-oriented stallions such as Boundary (Big Brown), Elusive Quality ...

UPDATE Rachel Alexandra delivered early! On Jan. 22, Rachel Alexandra gave birth to a 125-pound colt by two-time Horse of the Curlin. With a white star, the colt is reported to have a striking resemblance to his mother. Farm manager Gary Megibben reported that the mare and foal are doing ...

While horseman in the Northern Hemisphere are working their way through the dark, damp days of winter, a significant portion of the Australasian breeding and racing community were enjoying the sunshine at the Gold Coast in Queensland. From a racing standpoint, the highlight was the A$2,000,000 BMW Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic, run over six ...

 (Originally published in the January 21, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) Trainer Eddie Kenneally is known around backstretches for his hard work and horsemanship. But it is the Irishman’s passion for the sport that makes him a standout to ...