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The Value of Goodness:  Advocacy for Racehorse Retirement Precedes the Road to the Breeders Cup for Weemissfrankie.by Jennifer Wirthhttp//www.thesaturdaypost.org/blog/Nearly two years ago, I was talking with the retired Farm Manager of Claiborne Farm, the late John Sosby, about what it takes to find a winning horse.  He gave a broad ...

The more you study the past performances of the Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) the more scenarios you find. We’re going to concentrate on two horses who we find intriguing in regard to the tactics they should or could employ. Let’s start first with the pace, and even with the loss of Tizway, the pace on paper looks to be strong and ...

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  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 ...

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 ...