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By Frank Vespe, That's Amore Stable It's a busy week among the bloggers of the Thoroughbred Bloggers Alliance, what with important stories developing both nationally and internationally. Since the TBA includes nearly four dozen bloggers keeping an eye on the racing scene.  Sometimes that's a jaundiced eye, or a skewed one, but an eye ...

Courtesy of Kevin Martin, Colin's Ghost Fall racing for 2008 was missing what historically had been one of the marquee races for 2-year-olds. For only the fourth time since 1921, Maryland went without the Laurel Futurity. The list of past winners includes a collection of great champions: Equipoise, Bimelech, Top Flight, Count Fleet, ...

A foal of 1980 by Icecapade, out of Bushel-n-Peck, Wild Again arrived at Three Chimneys in December of 1991 as part of the dissolution of Calumet Farm.  At that point, he had three crops of racing age.  Throughout his career he commanded billing as a leading general sire, juvenile sire, and broodmare sire.  He has sired eight ...

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By Ted Grevelis Who? EXACTLY! This is a story about a horse whose retirement won't be generating any headlines, just a  tough, hard knocking type that races everyday across North America with little fanfare but carries on his back the hopes and dreams of small time owners. Trato was bred in California by Megali Ventures LLC and ...

 Lexington, Ky. - The Blood-Horse, the nation's oldest continually-published weekly news magazine for Thoroughbred racing and breeding, will reduce its print advertising rates by 5 percent effective January 2009. The move comes in an effort to help ease the current operating burden faced by many of the country's Thoroughbred horse farms ...

By Frank Vespe Ran into my pal the usher the other day at Laurel. That is, the ex-usher. Because Laurel -- besieged by nearby tracks with slots-infused purses and battling the collapsing national economy -- no longer needs ushers on normal days.  And so my friend is an ex-usher.  After 50 years. Once, a track like Laurel employed ...

Just a few weeks ago, this column opined that some stud fees were coming down in 2009, but it was not enough. They needed to be reduced more.Since then, the Keeneland November sale has come and gone, the nearly 50% drop in gross clearly illustrating the global economic downturn has not only reached the Thoroughbred industry, but had a clear effect ...