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(Originally published in the November 12, 2011 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) People often take different paths to reach the same destination, but once there the celebration is universal. At Churchill Downs Nov. 5, everyone watched Elliott Walden, president, CEO, ...

Some post-Breeders' Cup ramblings:  There were more than several tweets noting handicapping exhaustion and inability to keep track of horses given 15 Breeders’ Cup races this year. … So have we finally maxed out on the number of races? Hint: Yes. My reaction when the new Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint was announced earlier this year wasn’t ...

 (Originally published in the November 12, 2011 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) Breeders’ Cup World Championships weekend was a phenomenal milestone in the life of BryLynn Farm, a small, family-run Central Florida breeding operation started 26 years ...

 (Originally published in the November 12, 2011 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 Breeders’ Cup World Championships fell right in place with the rest of the racing year by turning end of the year ...

All in all, it was a fairly odd and anti-climatic Breeders' Cup weekend, in my opinion. Of course, had I cashed a few more tickets or if my name was Bill Mott my opinion may have been a little different. The odd part: Of the 15 Breeders' Cup races only four favorites won (just one out of nine of Saturday), and there were three races where the ...

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Let’s see if we can a couple of these at least in the money. BRIGANTIN (Marathon) – This horse is just getting warmed up at 1 15/16 miles and has the class to finish third in the Ascot Gold Cup, but has also won at a mile and mile and a quarter. The first inclination is to say he has too much stamina for a 1 ¾-mile race in the U.S. and will ...

Who will win the Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I)? How will the others finish? Need more information about the Breeders' Cup Classic? Read the race preview, or watch That Handicapping Show. writeRanker(''http://i.bloodhorse.com/xml/ranking/2011BCClassicOrder.xml''); To participate, use your cursor to drag the selections on the left ...

Friday actually has more intriguing longshot possibilities than Saturday, so here we go.MISS MATCH (Ladies Classic) – She’ll be totally ignored, but is coming off a solid fourth against the boys in the Goodwood Stakes (gr. I) after racing in eighth and last, 13 lengths off the lead. She beat Switch in the Santa Margarita (gr. I), but has been ...