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The Super Derby (gr. II) will be run this Saturday at Louisiana Downs. Past champions to win the race include Alysheba, Sunday Silence, and Tiznow. First run in 1980, the Super Derby was originally a 10-furlong end-of-season showdown for three-year-olds. The inaugural race offered a Travers exacta rematch, with Belmont-Travers-Jockey Club Gold ...

Proven sire power and racetrack excellence on the dam side ruled the early days of the 2010 Keeneland September yearling sale--and when the two stars aligned, competitive bidding rocketed the yearlings into an out-of-this-world price stratosphere. Twenty-eight colts and fillies sold reached bids of $500,000 or higher during the first six days of ...

Part 3 of my Secretariat trilogy is a review of the long-awaited film that opens nationwide on Oct. 8. For those who wish to see the movie with an open mind and not be made aware of its flaws, you can just read the opening and closing graphs. To the casual and non-racing fans, the flaws will be of little concern. As much as I want the movie to do ...

Warrior's Reward (TrueNicks) is now available on TrueNicks, and the stallion prospect is likely to retire to Spendthrift after the Breeders' Cup. A 4-year-old colt by Medaglia d'Oro, Warrior's Reward remains in training with Ian Wilkes for owner Steven Miles. Warrior's Reward won the seven-furlong Carter H. (gr. I) at Aqueduct in April over ...

I will be the first to admit that I am not a regular reader of O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine.  However, more than 2.5 million people, mostly women, do read O each month. I also don’t often visit Oprah.com, Winfrey’s Website that attracts an estimated 70 million page views a month. But this week, we racing fans might want to check out ...

Busy week for consignors, buyers, and officials at the Keeneland September yearling sale, where 4,857 yearlings are catalogued.Two of those yearlings are by Storm Cat, who was represented by his last two yearling offspring at public auction. North America’s leading sire of sales yearlings for seven years, Storm Cat, now 27, is pensioned at ...

Move over Zenyatta, Blame, Quality Road, and Lookin At Lucky. You may have company in the form of a Japanese invader. Espoir City, a speedy 5-year-old horse by Japanese stallion Gold Allure, who was a son of Sunday Silence, is being pointed to the Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) on Nov. 6 at Churchill Downs. The connections have had the plan in ...

TrueNicks welcomes Roseglade Farm’s Margie's Wildcat (TrueNicks,SRO), a son of Storm Cat and Champion Three-Year-Old Filly Hollywood Wildcat. Margie’s Wildcat is a half or full brother to five stakes horses, including Breeders’ Cup Mile (gr. I) winner and sire War Chant, English group II winner Ivan Denisovich, and stakes winners Ministers Wild ...

After some time to reflect on the select portion of the Keeneland September yearling sale, I've decided to give it a grade of B+. Designed to provide more excitement and glamour, the nighttime sessions delivered on the former and produced - as Dogwood Stable Cot Campbell said - ''a glimmer'' of the latter.   The auctioneers and bid spotters ...