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nbsp;(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.)  By Eric Mitchell - @EJMitchellKy on Twitter The lure in watching any sport is the always-present opportunity to witness something never before achieved. It’s the ...

2012 will be the first breeding season without A.P. Indy as an active stallion since he retired to Lane's End in 1993. Now 23 years old, the two-time leading sire was pensioned last April due to declining fertility. Sire of 1,119 foals and 142 stakes winners, A.P. Indy commanded a $300,000 stud fee for a large portion of his stud ...

The 2011 racing season officially came to an end Monday in California with the Eclipse Awards. Save a few categories, the ceremony was almost as anticlimactic as the racing was last year. Whether or not your favorite horse won last night or not, I think most of us will agree that 2011 was one of the most uneventful years in recent memory. If that ...

As the 2012 Thoroughbred auction season opens, the talkhas turned from stabilization to recovery. Last year, the business trends at NorthAmerican sales turned upward overall after four consecutive years of declines.Then the first major auction of the New Year, the Keeneland January horses of allages sale, posted big gains. ''This is a ...

Joell Dunlap, executive director of the Square Peg Foundation in Half Moon Bay, Calif., receives a lot of bold requests throughout the year, many of which she must turn down due to financial constraints or other limitations. But when Rupert Issacson, creator of the Horse Boy Method, asked if she could bring horses into the San Jose Convention ...

Press the Play button below to listen to the full interview. W. Cothran ''Cot'' Campbell, who revolutionized racehorse ownership and syndication through his Dogwood Stable and who is being honored with the 2011 Eclipse Award of Merit, was the special guest on BloodHorse.com’s “Talkin’ Horses” podcast at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17. ...

By Bill Pressey
, of Thoroedge Equine Performance   ‘Conformation is the blending of the various body parts, and how well they fit together visually and physically to create a running machine.’ - http://www.horsehats.com/Conformation.html As the image above indicates; conformation can be further defined by various subjective opinions of ...