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I wanted to give you guys a little update on Noor’s remains being sent to Old Friends. The plan is for the body of the deceased Hall of Famer to be shipped to Michael Blowen’s Georgetown Ky.-based farm Aug. 30. Noor is being exhumed from his previous burial ground at the Loma Rica training track in California due to the land being ...

Complimentary TrueNicks Enhanced reports are available for the Travers Stakes (gr. I) field listed below. Click on the horse's name or letter grade to view the report. Each cross's average winning distance is included in the table—see the full report for addition cross-specific stats. The two favorites, Stay Thirsty and Coil, are sired by Travers ...

There were a few somber moments at the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund’s karaoke fundraiser when Jockey Guild president John Velazquez, riders Edgar Prado and Dean Mernagh and honoree Jeremy Edge, the “Walking Brit” who raised $30,000 for charity by walking from Belmont to Saratoga, paused the madness to remind the several hundred people in ...

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 ...

Nancy Dillman can sum up 2011 so far in one word: “Marvelous.”During the recent Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale, a Bernardini colt that Dillman bred brought $1.2 million from Sheikh Mohammed’s bloodstock manager, John Ferguson. Consigned by the sales division of Mill Ridge Farm, the handsome bay shared the auction’s honor for highest ...

In the not-so-distant past a predication of the following year’s Thoroughbred foal crop size was the most pressing news reported during The Jockey Club’s annual Round Table Conference. Other topics have been discussed. Over the last 20 years, for example, the topics have included drug testing, federal legislation as it affected taxes and wagering, ...

A succession of locally-produced television shows about horse racing occurs every weekend morning on Channel 12.  For the most part, they’re produced by Capital District OTB (Albany, NY).  Horse ownership partnerships such as Karakorum Racing, West Point Thoroughbreds, Hibiscus Stables and Whitehall Stables vie for time with automobile ...

This morning’s newspapers revealed that Havre de Grace will bypass the gr. 1 Personal Ensign Stakes in lieu of the gr. 1 Woodward Stakes.  While not official, everyone’s certain that Blind Luck will stay west to do just what her rival has planned – that is, to run against males.  Blind Luck’s connections believe that if she can beat ...

That gauzy film that prevents you from seeing the horses in detail on postcards of Saratoga in the morning was the first sight that early risers had on Friday.  On days like this, for some unexplained reason, the streets seem quieter than normal, as if the thick air is acting like a sponge. 7:00 am came and passed without the ...