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Rahy, 1985-2011. Photo by @lordatwar Rahy, one of the best stallions of the past two decades, died last week at age 26 (read more). The pensioned son of Blushing Groom and 1980 U.S. champion mare and Canadian Horse of the Year Glorious Song—herself a full sister to champion Devil's Bag—has sired 91 stakes winners, including 15 grade or ...

I apologize for being absent for awhile. I will be back with a longer blog story next week, but as I am currently dealing with some family issues, this week I will simply be sharing with you a touching article that I read recently. I love reading stories about horses with huge hearts. The subject of this article—an 8-year-old Australian-bred ...

This year's Perfect Trip Award will recognize a Breeders' Cup Challenge race winner from this season's North American races that best exemplifies a ''Perfect Trip''. The winner will be selected from a panel of racing experts and will have the opportunity to experience his or her own ''Perfect Trip'' through Sentient Jet, with ...

Thoroughbred racehorses require some basic care—food, water, a clean environment, regular exercise, and veterinary care. It is unacceptable, therefore, that we have racetracks and horsemen’s groups in this country not fulfilling one of those basic needs—veterinary care—during training hours. The issue of having a vet on call during training hours ...

The late Emmy Award-winning producer Danny Arnold couldn’t have come up with a better script for his wife’s homebred colt Turallure than what transpired in the Ricoh Woodbine Mile Stakes (Can-IT) Sept. 18. Racing for Donna Arnold’s Four D Stable, Turallure captured the seven-figure stakes to secure a starting berth in the TVG Breeders’ Cup Mile ...

TV commentator and former jockey Donna Barton Brothers is the author of Inside Track: Insider’s Guide to Horse Racing.  It’s been a tough year for jockeys, some of whom have found their names in the news—and not in a positive way. Those controversies prompted me, a former jockey, to reflect on the challenges that many jockeys face.I know, I ...

This column has nothing to do with the defection of Tizway from next Saturday’s Jockey Club Gold Cup, as disappointing as it was, or the horses that will be competing in the mile and a quarter event, even though at this point a good portion of the field appears as if it will be made of horses more likely to point for the BC Marathon.The column is ...

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 535 yearlings for its 2011 Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearlings sale to be held October 4-5 in Timonium, Maryland. Visit TrueNicks.com/Auctions to get TrueNicks reports for all hips in the Midlantic sale, or for any past or upcoming sale. Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearlings: Session 1: Tuesday, October 4 - ...

(By Avalyn Hunter) In perusing this year's sales results and The Jockey Club's 2011 Live Foal Report (free download), one thing stands out: it's tougher than ever to market a new stallion. In contrast to previous years in which youngsters from the first crops of ''hot'' new stallions were in high demand, only one first-year stallion, ...

Our last blog dealt with the 3-year-old male crop of 1969. Well, their female counterparts were pretty special themselves, and what better time to recount their exploits than on the day of the grade II Gallant Bloom Handicap at Belmont. The race’s namesake will be the main focus of this blog, but no mention of that period would be complete without ...