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It is time again for my annual Thanksgiving holiday blog.  Perhaps it’s a bit cliché to make a list of things to be thankful for but it’s an important exercise nonetheless.  So here goes.   Here is my list of things in the horse industry for which I am grateful. Horseplayers. Again this year, you are at the top of my ...

Remember the amazing story of Miranda Prather and Blue Blue Sea? It didn't surprise me to hear that Blue Blue Sea, a 12-year-old gelding by Sea Hero, currently has nearly 680 fans on Facebook. Prather contacted me a few weeks ago about a new development in the horse’s family that I would like to ...

It’s safe to say Rapid Redux picked a good year to set the modern-day North American consecutive win record, because it has been one of those years: Good horses, good races, but no standouts. These things happen in horse racing; you move on and hope for something better the following year. So a former claimer that feasted on starter allowance ...

(Originally published in the November 26, 2011 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Lenny Shulman Isolated by geography and prevented by statute from cashing in on casinos that are solely the purview of
 Native Americans in the state, California needs ...

(Originally published in the November 26, 2011 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) Donnie K. Von Hemel has been winning races for a long time—lots of them. With 1,858 wins and more than $43.6 million in purse earnings through Nov. 15, the 50-year-old has been a ...

Among the highlights of the recent Keeneland November breeding stock sale were the fireworks generated by Royal Delta and her family. Winner of the Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic (gr. I) Nov. 4, Royal Delta commanded the sale-topping price of $8.5 million four days later. Her dam, Delta Princess, who is in foal to Distorted Humor, brought $2.6 ...

By Jennifer Wirth, of The Saturday Post American Runner Steve Roland Prefontaine once likened his running to a creative art form in saying, “Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints.  I like to make something beautiful when I run.  I like to make people stop and say, ‘I’ve never seen anything run like ...

Now with the breeding stock sales nearly completed, breeders are in the process of finalizing their breeding decisions for the 2012 season. We've seen a big increase in the number of TrueNicks reports run in the past 30 days—102,551 to be exact, compared to 71,422 during the previous 30 days. Always popular during the breeding season is our ...

OK, so who’s the Eclipse Award-winning trainer this year? The usual names  – Baffert, Asmussen, Pletcher, or Mott, all of whom had terrific years? Or perhaps Graham Motion or Dale Romans, who both had career years and won classics? Before deciding, voters should pay close attention to Aidan O’Brien, who could become the first foreign-based ...

(By Lizz Kunz) Dynaformer, who will be 27 when the 2012 Northern Hemisphere breeding season commences, has consistently sired winners of races all across the world since first retiring to Wafare Farm in 1990. While it's no secret that this big bay with an ''I'm boss'' attitude knows how make a determined runner, many in the Thoroughbred ...