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If you go back through the 20th century, the typical equine hero was a 3-year-old or 4-year-old male who excelled at our classic distance of 1 1/4 miles. There were the rare exceptions like geldings Kelso, John Henry, Forego, Armed, Lava Man, and Exterminator, who raced at ages ranging from 6-years-old to 9-years-old, and a handful of fillies and ...

Every year there is a certain amount of hand-wringing from sellers and sales companies in anticipation of the coming yearling sales season. Players hone in on stock market charts, commodity prices, and global economic affairs, seeking clues as to how their yearling crop may sell.The Dow Jones average goes up 200 points one day; then “Brexit” ...

No one is expecting all the big names in racing to make the Breeders’ Cup Classic, but one can always hope, especially when you have a year like this with such a wide variety of talent gearing up for a run at America’s richest horse race. Here then is the Classic dream field that potentially could be assembled at Santa Anita on Nov. 5. With ...

Eva Cassidy had the voice of an angel. Her jazz/blues rendition of “Over the Rainbow” brought people to tears. She never sought fame, and in fact was painfully shy about singing in public. To her, it was all about the music and expressing herself the only way she knew how…with passion. She would sing in small clubs and sold tapes of her music from ...

Racing at Ascot Racecourse began in 1711, and it’s been a pretty big deal ever since with the Royal Ascot meeting rooted in a long-standing British tradition of quality racing with the Royal Family on hand. When thinking of the traditional pageantry and color of Thoroughbred racing, visions of the Queen arriving by Royal procession, men in morning ...

The following was written by my daughter Mandy and first appeared in the May 3, 2010 issue of Stride magazine,, then reprinted on this blog. It is the greatest Father’s Day gift I have ever received and still gets me all choked up, and that is why I am posting it again. It's still ''Hangin' With Haskin,” but this time written by the better ...

To continue the lyrics from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “A wonderful Guy” from South Pacific: “I expect everyone of my crowd to make fun Of my proud protestations of faith in romance, Loudly I'll sing about flowers in spring, Flatly I'll stand on my little flat feet and say Love is a grand and a beautiful thing! I'm not ashamed to ...

On a day when one wondered if the Longines finish line clock would begin flashing like the radar-equipped highway signs that blink when they detect a speeder, fast horses delivered swift performances on Belmont Park’s grandest card of racing.Those speedy efforts came before Creator rallied in the stretch June 11 to catch Destin for a narrow ...

No one knows how long the 2016 Triple Crown will remain in the public’s memory banks, but for now at least it should be remembered for its eccentricities, following one of the most memorable and emotional Triple Crowns in history. With the Belmont Stakes still fresh in everyone’s mind, let’s start with the closing act and its unconventional story ...

You can’t say the wheels at WinStar aren’t always turning. Approaching the Belmont Stakes, they were cooking up an enticing stew, with all the basic ingredients. They had the Arkansas Derby winner Creator, who they own outright, and the Preakness winner and early favorite Exaggerator, whose breeding rights they have purchased. But there was only ...