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NYRA announced that handle was up 7.7 percent and attendance down 5.4 percent for the first 16 days of racing.  An asterisk accompanied the attendance figure, noting that so far this summer there’s been one fewer giveaway – a promotion that swells the crowd considerably.  Caption: Nighttime at the Fasig-Tipton auction grounds came alive ...

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 ...

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 ...

 (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 ...

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 racing—a unique combination of ...

(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 ...

George Hicker admits that buying a 6-year-old gelding might look like it doesn’t have much upside, especially when the horse hasn’t won a race in two years. But Tres Borrachos had back class and was training well for Hicker’s conditioner, Marty Jones. Besides, the Del Mar meet was about to begin. “I probably wouldn’t have bought him if Del Mar ...

On July 31, Bob Baffert lived a trainer’s 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 ...

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 ...

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 racing’s man of the most means witnesses a downpour only now and then and rarely a deluge like Saratoga ...