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By Frank Vespe, That's Amore Stable  Sometime Tuesday night - or perhaps Wednesday morning - our nation will have a new president-elect. And Maryland racing will have a future.  Or not. Maryland voters will decide Tuesday on a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would allow slot machines in the state for the ...

Lexington, Ky. - The Horse announces the launch of the most recent addition to its electronic newsletter stable, an informative weekly Equine Nutrition e-newsletter, which is available free to registered users on TheHorse.com, courtesy of OCD Pellets. To view the inaugural edition of the e-newsletter, visit ...

By Frank Vespe When Frankie Dettori flyingly dismounted from Raven's Pass last Saturday, it marked, in a sense, the end of a decade-long journey for the colorful jockey.  It also marked, from my perspective, another link in the chain of interconnectedness that is one of racing's signal charms. Ten years ago, Dettori had the mount ...

By Ted Grevelis (Owning Racehorses)The very first ownership group I was a part of was right here in Minnesota.  Managed by chart caller and bloodstock agent David M Miller we ran under the banner of Star of the North Racing.  Siblings Somerset Sam and Somerset Wish (Gazebo- Somerset Blum) were purchased from breeder Jack Welch in the ...

By Steve Zorn  Well, it took a while, but there are more and more signs that horse racing isn't being spared the ills that are affecting the rest of the economy. There are three ways of measuring how well racing is doing, depending on what your economic interest is.  If you're a commercial breeder, what you care most about is ...

By Frank VespeJust checked put our pal Ted's post introducing this week of musings from the small-ownership crowd.  There, to my surprise, he'd successfully pilfered a photo of me from our That's Amore Stable website. In the picture, I appear to be the living definition of fat and happy. Which, truth be told, I was on that day. The ...

By Ted GrevelisI wrote this on the evening of Tuesday, June 17, 2008 after a very long day driving around the Upper Midwest.  I preface this way because I had a lot of time to kill. I had time to slip into a favorite American (and most definitely horse owners) past-time: day-dreaming. Now that the Breeder's Cup is over and I know I won't ...

By Steve Zorn  The Breeders' Cup is over. So let's get on to the important stuff.  Which is that racing returns to Aqueduct on Wednesday. Well, OK, perhaps Aqueduct isn't the center of the racing world any more - though it did host the Breeders Cup in 1985 - but for some of us in the game, it can be the center of our economic, ...