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 - by Alan Mann I figure that at this point, it's time to just concentrate on the races.  We've discussed the many questions surrounding this year's Breeders' Cup to death.  Yes, it's the first synthetic Breeders' Cup, but, as I've noted on my blog Left at the Gate, it's certainly not the first one tinged with doubts that cut to ...

By suebroux of Post Parade Marketing has been a hot topic of discussion amidst the horse racing industry. Last month the NTRA held a summit / junket in Fabulous Las Vegas in an effort to develop some semblance of a plan to lure a new and younger fan base to the sport. Inspired, Breeders' Cup devised and implemented their own marketing ...

Although it’s only been six years since Volponi’s stunning shocker in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, in which he demolished a star-studded field at odds of 43-1, the horse has pretty much faded from public consciousness, due in part to the fact that he currently resides in Korea. Volponi’s victory will always be one of the special moments I’ve ...

They say actions speak louder than words. The public is taking action by wagering less on horse racing. And those actions are speaking loudly.Data released for the third quarter of 2008 reveals that handle in the United States and Canada dropped sharply, 9.85%, during July, August, and September, and for the calendar year, is off 5.75% compared ...

With the unfortunate retirement of Big Brown, the Breeders’ Cup pre-entries, a weekly column to write, and preparation for the Breeders' Cup Classic occupying most of my time this week, I thought, because of the interest shown in Invasor on my last blog and in several recent e-mails, I would reprint two stories (a commentary and parts of my ...

By Valerie Grash As a fan, call me underwhelmed. The Breeders’ Cup returns to Churchill Downs in 2010 (but perhaps only if the state of Kentucky can be extorted into extending a pari-mutuel tax exemption), and, once again, horse racing has missed the boat in terms of updating what has become, unfortunately, “the” defining event of America’s ...

Scenario: Square Eddie wins the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. Actually, you can add Street Hero and Midshipman to that scenario. Question: Do you vote for the Juvenile/Breeders’ Futurity winner or the Juvenile/Norfolk winner or the Juvenile/Del Mar Futurity winner – none of whom have ever run on dirt – for the Eclipse Award or do you vote for the ...

Many horses like Wanderin Boy go through their entire career overlooked by the fans and media. They’re always dependable, showing up in many of the grade I stakes, and while they turn in huge efforts at times, they’re just not able to get to the finish line first and make that leap into the big-time.At age 7, Wanderin Boy has made only 24 career ...

At 10 p.m., an exhausted Larry Jones finally fell asleep. Just two and a half hours later, he was back up, making training charts for that day’s sets before loading his trailer to drive from his barn at Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland to Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York.Jones was tired, and not just physically, but emotionally, ...

Financier Warren Buffett once said there is only one certainty about the stock market: It will fluctuate.In fact, all markets vacillate, and the business trends of buying and selling Thoroughbreds are certainly among them. The difference is the stock market tends to react quickly to news while the Thoroughbred market, by its sheer nature, often ...