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We're now just a few days away from the New Year, which of course means that juveniles will be officially turning 3 and the Triple Crown trail will launch into full swing. It is impossible to talk seriously about the Kentucky Derby without mentioning Bob Baffert. There is no better trainer at preparing young horses for a run at the Triple Crown ...

By Adam Spradling, Web Producer, Digital Designer and Blogger at The Blood-Horse. BloodHorse.com offers a deep pool of tools to use if you are trying to research a current race horse. Especially if the horse is in graded stakes competition. Here is a brief guide to tools on BloodHorse.com that could aide in anything from a school paper to ...

Thoroughbred breeders know that stud fees are one of the truest gauges of our industry's health. The December MarketWatch issue provides in-depth information about individual stallions' fees and their progeny performances, along with breeding, sales, and racing norms by stallion groups. MarketWatch is your annual source for complete details about ...

The 2010 graded stakes schedule of major North American races concludes Monday with the San Gabriel Stakes at Santa Anita. Over the next week, many Eclipse Awards voters will be grappling with the selection of human and equine champions to be honored at the 40th Annual Eclipse Awards Dinner on January 17, 2011, at the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach, ...

Our Mims Retirement Haven is a pretty incredible place that is bursting at the seams with retired mares that have excelled either on the track, as broodmares, or simply with their shining personalities. I thought it was definitely time that I highlight some of these ladies' stories as well as the selfless and dedicated organization which they ...

This year was an exciting one in Thoroughbred racing, pedigrees, and breeding. Now with 2010 winding down, let's take a look back at the year's most popular topics on TrueNicks.com. The following blog posts are a group of our most popular posts by comments and unique page views. We hope you'll enjoy the 2010 recap, and please suggest any ideas for ...

By J. Keeler Johnson The Great Race Place has long been known for its great races and its very fast racing surface. For the first seventy-four years of its existence, Santa Anita Park had a main track consisting of good old-fashioned dirt. However, the sudden rise of the synthetic tracks changed all of this. In 2006, the California Horse ...

Zenyatta’s California connections came to visit on Dec. 20 at Lane’s End Farm near Versailles, Ky.  Zenyatta responded to all of her visitors and especially groom Mario Espinoza and trainer John Shirreffs who spent so much time with the champion during her racing career. Zenyatta buddied right up to Espinoza and rubbed her head on him when he ...

 (Originally published in the December 25, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Lenny ShulmanAfter racing primarily in California in 2009, she crisscrossed the country in 2010 racing an ambitious schedule mandated by her owners and thrilling ...