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Will will win the 2011 Hollywood Gold Cup (gr. I)? Will Awesome Gem repeat? Or will it be a Dude? Or will a Candy horse prevail? How will the rest finish? Need more information about the Hollywood Gold Cup? Read the race preview, or watch That Handicapping ...

Welcome back to Breeders' Cup Chat, 2011 edition. Most years, I watch the Hollywood Gold Cup with minor interest. With a couple of rare exceptions, it's a race that doesn't have much major impact on the Breeders' Cup Classic, and so for me, it's a just another California grade I with a small field that helps pass the time before Saratoga begins. ...

Invisible Ink died today at Pin Oak Lane Farm in New Freedom, Pa. at the age of 13. Although he was far too young, every day of his life was a miracle. His owner, John Fort of Peachtree Stable, has built Peachtree into a successful operation, with dozens of stakes winners, and this year has one of the leading sprinters in the country in ...

 (Originally published in the July 9, 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 Public hearings are supposed to provide answers and resolution. Unfortunately, the administrative hearing held June 28-30 ...

  (Originally published in the July 9, 2011 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) Leonard Lavin, who started his Glen Hill Farm Thoroughbred operation 40 years ago, promised his daughter Carol back around 1980 that he wouldn’t make a horseplayer out of her ...

Larneuk Stud is a proven winner-producing nursery, situated near Euroa in the heart of Victoria’s thoroughbred country. The farm has now subscribed two of its promising young sires to TrueNicks, allowing breeders to run complimentary hypothetical matings with O’Lonhro and Bramshaw. O'Lonhro (AUS) (TrueNicks,SRO), who will soon commence his ...

Because the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale is a boutique auction, buyers expect to find some of the fanciest pedigrees around in its catalog. This year's edition of the sale, which will be held Aug. 8 and 9 in update New York, has a number of horses should tempt shoppers based on the very blue blood flowing through their ...

The first U.S. 2-year-old grade II winner of the year is Jack’s in the Deck (TrueNicks A+), who upset the Futurity Stakes (gr. II, video below), breaking his maiden in only his second start. Jack’s in the Deck is from the second crop of Love of Money (TrueNicks,SRO) (by Not For Love (TrueNicks,SRO), a brother to Rhythm, and three-parts-brother to ...

Is Aidan O’Brien loaded this year? Are baked potatoes with cheddar cheese, bacon, garlic, butter, and sour cream loaded? Let’s just say that dish is not nearly as rich as the Master of Ballydoyle, whose success in less than four months of racing might be considered bordering on obscene by rival trainers. But here in the States, no one gives a ...