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By Patrick Patten, of Handride  Like most racing fans, a number of members of the Thoroughbred Bloggers Alliance have strong feelings about the meaning of Saturday's Breeders Cup Classic for the Horse of the Year race, Zenyatta's legacy, and related issues.  We'll be highlighting some of these posts in the days to come. In the last ...

With darkening skies creating an almost surreal atmosphere, Blame and Zenyatta put on a show for the ages in the Nov. 6 Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I), creating a mosaic of emotions that ran the gamut between joy and sadness, and in the end, admiration. In perhaps her greatest performance, Jerry and Ann Moss’ Zenyatta’s gallant quest for ...

 I wanted to put something together that can be easily referred to for those of you who want to refer to all of the Breeders' Cup coverage we did with video. There was a lot. So if you don't want to delve into our video archives, maybe this will help. Plus a few other treats you may have missed. Comments that Zenyatta enjoyed the Churchill ...

Here's your sounding board for the 2010 Breeders' Cup World Championships. Racing fans certainly have had plenty to say since Nov. 6 about Blame and Zenyatta's remarkable battle in the Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I), but what about Goldikova's three-peat in the Mile (gr. I) and Uncle Mo's big kick in the Juvenile (gr. I)? Share your thoughts here.

 (Originally published in the November 13, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Eric Mitchell - @EJMitchellKy on Twitter Following an emotionally charged Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I), the question for those deciding Horse of the Year ...

 The 27th edition of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships was one for the record books.   It was not only fourth all time in single-day attendance (72,739 on Saturday) and highest ever in amount bet (some $180 million over the two days), but it produced a number of champions who distinguished themselves in ways only imagined some ...

When I wrote a pedigree review of 2010 Emirates Airline Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT) winner Dangerous Midge (profile, pedigree) for this week's issue of The Blood-Horse, I focused my 500 words on the La Troienne female family. I looked specifically at the overall influence of the 1962 Hail to Reason mare Straight Deal, a spectacular race mare (99 ...

Goldikova following training, Freddie Head's yard, June 2009. Photo by Ian Tapp. Today, Alain Wertheimer, one of Goldikova's owner-breeders, announced that the champion mare would remain in training for 2011 and attempt a fourth consecutive win in the Breeders' Cup Mile (gr. I). Click here to read more. Alan Porter, advising the ...

I was going to write a recap of the Breeders' Cup but as expected the Horse of the Year debate has already become the focus of everyone's attention, and so I am forced to address the issue sooner than I wanted. Let me get this out of the way right now before it goes any further: Blame should be Horse of the Year. Like last year, if you take the ...