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 When we formed the NTRA Safety & Integrity Alliance almost two years ago, we knew that it needed to be as much as about education and best practice sharing as it was about accreditation.  I’m proud to report that, yesterday at Keeneland, the Alliance held its inaugural Professional Education Seminar.  Thanks in great measure to ...

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The stallions of Valor Farm, located in Pilot Point, Texas, are now available on TrueNicks. San Vicente (gr. II) winner and grade I-placed sprinter Early Flyer (TrueNicks,SRO) has led the first, second, and third crop Southwest sire lists over the last three seasons. A son of champion two-year-old Gilded Time, he is a half brother to grade II ...

With the Breeders' Cup just two and half weeks away, the major storylines are now in place to be written. Zenyatta going for back-to-back Classics. Goldikova shooting for an unprecedented three consecutive Mile win. Uncle Mo vs. Boys at Tosconova in the Juvenile. Three-year-old Blind Luck expected to be favored in the Ladies Classic. These will ...

  (Originally published in the October 23, 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 California trainer John Shirreffs looks back at 2009 and believes racing missed a huge opportunity to build up ...

This will be my last post about the World Equestrian Games, but I wanted to tell you all about my encounter with Ron Turcotte, the jockey of Secretariat, while I was out at the Kentucky Horse Park a couple of weeks ago. I was walking around the huge tent promoting dozens of local stores and various organizations, and I ...

This year's Perfect Trip Award will recognize a Breeders' Cup Challenge race winner from this season's North American races that best exemplifies a ''Perfect Trip''. The winner will be selected from a panel of racing experts and will have the opportunity to experience his or her own ''Perfect Trip'' through Sentient Jet, with ...

The stallions of Circle H Farms in Abbeville, Louisiana, are now available on TrueNicks. Run Production (TrueNicks) is a son of Saint Ballado who, despite a limited number of foals, has sired five stakes horses to date, including multiple stakes winners Foreign Production, Productive Envoy, and Star Production. A stakes winner himself, Run ...

 Now that the preps for the Nov. 5 and 6 Breeders’ Cup have been completed, it is time to go over all the races and see who will be and might be showing up. A number of trainers and owners are uncertain in which races their horses will be participating, so expect to see several prominent hopefuls pre-entered in two races. For a few ...