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For horse racing fans, Breeders' Cup pre-entries day always has that Christmas morning feel. I like the Kentucky Derby as much as anyone, but as a fan and especially as an avid bettor, having two days of top-quality racing and 15 chances of taking down huge pools, is much more appealing. No matter what the quality of the pre-entries, it's an ...

One of the latest technological advances sweeping the nation is the QR, or Quick Response, Code. The QR, which is a type of barcode, was developed by a Japanese subsidiary of Toyota in 1994 to track vehicles during the manufacturing process. When Steve Jobs and company reinvented the cell phone by turning it into the smartphone, he, in ...

The following story appears in this week’s issue of The Blood-Horse, October 29. 2011. TVG has put together a terrific video on Tiznow, with the focus on the 2001 Breeders’ Cup Classic, that will air Wednesday at 11:30 p.m. ET.The year 2001 was not quite what Stanley Kubrick envisioned in his surreal odyssey into space. But that doesn’t mean the ...

 (Originally published in the October 29, 2011 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)Owner B.J. Wright and trainer Mike Pender had a phenomenal week in mid-October. It began Oct. 8 with Jeranimo’s mild upset in the Oak Tree Mile Stakes (gr. IIT) at Santa ...

 (Originally published in the October 29, 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 $3 million Breeders’ Cup Turf (gr. IT) offers almost as much in prize money as the entire British QIPCO ...

Eight years ago The Blood-Horse MarketWatch noted Giant's Causeway's high rankings--second by average and third by median--in a review of leading first-crop yearling sires. Lofty sales prices were no surprise for a Coolmore stud who had been a star entering stallion in 2001. The North American auction results are notable because Giant's Causeway's ...

Sometimes a trend is not just a trend, but the beginning of the end. Pardon the feeble attempt at poetry, but is it time to come to the realization that the Sport of Kings may be witnessing the end of male domination and that the queens will one day rule racing?Many archeologists have concluded that women once were the dominant species on Earth, ...

In what was somewhat of an upset victory, the classy mare Pinker Pinker won the historic Cox Plate (Aus-I), the best weight for age race over 10 furlongs in Australasia, last night at Moonee Valley. Interestingly, the owner of Pinker Pinker's dam Miss Marion had asked TrueNicks to run a Broodmare Analysis Report on the mare when Pinker Pinker was ...

No trainer in the history of horse racing has won more races at Churchill Downs than Bill Mott. Over a career that has spanned more than 40 years, Mott has won 640 races under the Twin Spires, including two of his six Breeders' Cup victories (Escena 1998 Distaff and Unrivaled Belle 2010 Ladies Classic). Though Mott's stable is considerably ...

As I write this I am eating my Rachel Alexandracookie. It's bay (chocolate) just like her. It has a white icing blaze (sort oflike hers). There is even a sparkle in her eye (courtesy of a white icing dot). The cookie came in a cellophane bag tied at the topwith a jaunty red bow. And yes, it was quite tasty. The sugary treat was one of my ...