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  • August 13, 2011 - Week 2 Nominees

    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 ...
    Posted to Perfect Trip (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 08-09-2011
  • Repole Sounds Off

    On the surface, it seems that Mike Repole should be a happy man. On Tuesday, champion Uncle Mo turned in his fourth consecutive encouraging work at Saratoga and seems on his way to making a comeback in the Aug. 27 King's Bishop. Repole is also only a couple weeks removed from winning the Jim Dandy with Stay Thirsty, who could be the favorite ...
    Posted to Breeders Cup Chat (Weblog) by Jason Shandler on 08-09-2011
  • The Summer Places to Be - By Evan Hammonds

     (Originally published in the August 13, 2011 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) By Evan Hammonds   Those seeking escape from the hair-raising roller-coaster ride Wall Street is on right now, or those wondering whether the country is back ...
    Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 08-09-2011
  • Old School Embraces Night School

    Call me old school, but I am among those who believe that the best way to create racing fans is through an on-track visit with friends or family to one of the many beautiful racetracks located throughout North America. To me, an on-track visit is the best way to soak in all of the positive attributes of horse racinga unique combination of ...
  • Cape Blanco--The European Invader

    (By Lizz Kunz) Coolmore Stud's Galileo continues to prove his power as a stallion through his progeny's ability to annihilate competitors on the track. The handsome chestnut Cape Blanco is no exception, a winner of two group I races in Ireland and a grade I stakes in the United States so far, he is a force to be reckoned with on the ...
    Posted to MarketWatch Blog (Weblog) by sgillies on 08-09-2011
  • Back Class - By Tracy Gantz

    George Hicker admits that buying a 6-year-old gelding might look like it doesnt have much upside, especially when the horse hasnt won a race in two years. But Tres Borrachos had back class and was training well for Hickers conditioner, Marty Jones. Besides, the Del Mar meet was about to begin. I probably wouldnt have bought him if Del Mar ...
    Posted to Winner's Circle (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 08-09-2011
  • Bob Baffert - Hall-of-Fame Trainer

    On July 31, Bob Baffert lived a trainers dream, winning grade I races on both coasts, with Coil in the $1 million Haskell Invitational Handicap at Monmouth Park in New Jersey and with Euroears in the Bing Crosby Stakes in track-record time at Del Mar in California.The 58-year-old conditioner, who was inducted into the National Museum of ...
    Posted to Talkin' Horses (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 08-09-2011
  • Thoroughbreds Shine at New Vocations Horse Show

    During the month of July, New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program hosted two horse shows that featured Thoroughbreds competing off the track. The first event was held July 9-10, during which nearly 40 Thoroughbreds gathered at the Kentucky Horse Park to compete in two Thoroughbred restricted hunter/jumper classes. It marked the second ...
    Posted to Beyond the Blinkers (Weblog) by Esther Marr on 08-08-2011
  • Sheikh Track

    Sheikh Mohammed moseyed over to the Fasig-Tipton auction grounds for the first time on Saturday.  He was surrounded by entourage, but acted mono-majestically. Someone had to tell him what rain was.  Being from the desert, horse racings man of the most means witnesses a downpour only now and then and rarely a deluge like Saratoga ...
    Posted to Vic Zast Saratoga Diary (Weblog) by aspradling on 08-08-2011
  • TrueNicks Adds Over 140 Stallions in Australia and New Zealand

    Over 140 stallions standing in Australia and New Zealand have joined TrueNicks in advance of the 2011 Southern Hemisphere breeding season. Thoroughbred breeders who are currently busy working on their 2011 mating plans can now run complimentary TrueNicks Enhanced Reports with these stallions. (Click here for the full list) TrueNicks Enhanced ...
    Posted to TrueNicks (Weblog) by Ian Tapp on 08-07-2011
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