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While the equine Hansen (TrueNicks) – the champion 2-year-old of 2011 – is pointing to the Holy Bull Stakes (gr. III) and hopefully his first step on the road to the Kentucky Derby (gr. I), his owner and breeder, Dr. Kendall Hansen, is looking well beyond the Run for the Roses. With a long-term view to his star's eventual stud career, Dr. Hansen ...

AIR BLAST is a natural supplement for general health and an aid for a healthy respiratory system. Breathing easier helps maintain optimum performance. The benefits of breathing easier are important for horses competing at all levels of fitness and skill, as exercise is often a greater challenge for the less-fit animal. The equine ...

Rachel Alexandra's newborn foal by Curlin is a primeexample of breeding the best to the best. The colt's dam was the 2009 Horse ofthe Year and his sire was the 2007 and 2008 Horse of the Year. Male Horses of the Year are much more common thanfemale winners of the honor -- at least until the last three years -- so theopportunities to pair them up ...

(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 ...