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Freaky juvenile colts Boys At Tosconova (TrueNicks), Stay Thirsty (TrueNicks), and Wine Police (TrueNicks) will square off in Monday's Hopeful Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga. These talented maiden winners will look to progress for their sires Officer (TrueNicks,SRO), Bernardini (TrueNicks,SRO), and Speightstown (TrueNicks,SRO). Who do you like? Any ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:   Bob Baffert, Mike Smith & Laffit Pincay Jr. Jersey Sale to Benefit Old Friends,The Race For Education, and Jockeys' Guild. DEL MAR, Calif. -  Horseracing Hall of Fame trio Bob Baffert, Mike Smith, and Laffit Pincay Jr. will sign limited edition collectible jerseys benefiting Old Friends Thoroughbred ...

Horse trailers the size of the noisy semis that ruin small talk in the sidewalk cafes of Broadway are beginning to appear on the backstretch. From up high in the grandstand, you can watch them come and go with a good pair of 7 x 50s.  Except for the impression left by the guy driving – a wiry dude in a wife-beater and ball cap and a Marlboro ...

It's September so I guess we better start talking about juveniles. On Saturday at Saratoga we may have seen the most dazzling maiden winner of the meet when Repole Stable's Uncle Mo devoured a field of 10 in a six-furlong contest. The son of Indian Charlie drew off to win by 14 1/2 lengths under John Velazquez, opening a lot of eyes along the ...

I just returned from a tour at WinStar Farm, and I can still feel grainy bits of Polytrack from their new training track between my toes. It’s been a good day. I’m currently working on a piece on WinStar for our Breeders’ Cup magazine, and I realized that I had never ventured out to the gorgeous Versailles, Ky. operation off Pisgah Pike, nor seen ...

Leading Second Crop Sire Afleet Alex (TrueNicks,SRO) moved further clear of the chasing pack – headed by Florida’s Wildcat Heir (TrueNicks,SRO) and Blind Luck’s sire Pollard’s Vison – at the weekend with a pair of stakes winners, headed by Afleet Express, who timed his bob of the head to take the Travers Stakes (gr. I) from Fly Down (by ...

Keeneland has cataloged 4,857 horses for its 2010 September Yearling Sale to be held Sunday, September 12 through Sunday, September 26 in Lexington, Kentucky. 81% of Keeneland September yearlings are sired by TrueNicks subscribed stallions, and complimentary reports are available for these yearlings. Follow the links below for each book to view a ...

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 ...

By William Shanklin  The word “great” is a recurring exaggeration in the current media age. Athletes, entertainers, and pedestrian successes are so routinely referred to with this superlative that the potency of the word has been diluted. An illustrious blue-blooded racehorse from Virginia and a famous blue-collar professional football ...

Originally published in the September 4, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)   By Evan Hammonds  Once we can find the glass, we’d like to see it as half full heading into Keeneland’s September yearling sale—the largest sale of its ...