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Maryland resident Miranda Prather, a lifelong horse lover who adopted a retired Thoroughbred named Blue Blue Sea, has an amazing story to tell about how her horse overcame odds by surviving a malabsorbtion disorder and several other health issues. I decided to do a little question-and-answer session with her to find out more about Blue Blue Sea, ...

Interesting but not unexpected reaction to comments from Peter Carlino, chief executive officer of Penn National Gaming Inc., regarding racetrack gaming. … The reference to horseplayers being dead was a red herring; slots players die, too. His overall point seems to have been missed: The slots welfare system is doomed to fail without ...

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I arrived at Old Friends equine retirement home near Georgetown, Ky.,  on a cold and windy morning in early February. Michael Blowen, the enthusiastic president of Old Friends, said his favorite time of day is early morning when he makes the rounds feeding the horses.  “It’s a quiet time of day before the phones start ringing and email ...

Another sire who had a good week on the international scene was Street Cry (IRE) (TrueNicks,SRO). His U.S.-bred three-year-old colt Splash Point captured the U.A.E. 2000 Guineas (gr. III, video below), his only previous win having come over seven furlongs in England last year. Splash Point is out of the Danehill mare Dianehill, a stakes-winning ...

 1 Uncle Mo Todd Pletcher Indian Charlie—Playa Maya, by Arch Pletcher got a bit more than he expected when the Derby favorite breezed a half in :47 2/5 in his third work back. Pletcher was looking for :48 and change, but what’s a second here or there when you’re dealing with a gifted colt? The Tampa Bay Derby is his likely target, ...

Young New Zealand sire Thorn Park is a stallon who is quietly moving up the ranks, and he enjoyed a good weekend with Centennial Park winning the Cleanvent Expressway Stakes (gr. II) at Rosehill, Australia, and Jimmy Choux taking the H.S. Dyke Waikato Guineas (gr. III). A son of the brilliant miler Spinning World (by Nureyev), and from the great ...

Our report on this weekend’s stakes action will appear on Tuesday, but for now there are several allowance and maiden races from the past few weeks that should be touched on, based solely on observation.Speaking of which, are we seeing a new trend with all these blazingly fast maidens debuting at 3 and running a hole in the wind and then having to ...

Temple City, photo by Eclipse Sportswire, Inc. Graded stakes winner and grade I-placed Temple City (TrueNicks,SRO) has joined TrueNicks. Additionally, Spendthrift Farm has upgraded their entire roster to the new TrueNicks Enhanced report. By top sire Dynaformer, Temple City is one of the most popular new stallions to enter stud in 2011. ...

Here is a rebuttal to a ''What's Going on Here'' editorial that ran in the Jan. 29 edition of The Blood-Horse. We felt it deserved its own post. -- Eric Mitchell Before I started this letter, I had to give you the benefit of the doubt, so I detoured a short trip to Florida last weekend and spend the day at the 'new', considerably ...