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It was nine o’clock in the morning on May 7, 2002—25 years to the day since Seattle Slew’s historic victory in the Kentucky Derby. The great Thoroughbred gave one final look at his devoted owners, Karen and Mickey Taylor, who, as usual, were by his side, and with his eyes, he let them know, as the Sioux warriors would say before going to battle, ...

TrueNicks announces the addition of Street Magician (TrueNicks) to our stallion roster. The graded stakes-winning sprinter will stand at Northview Stallion Station near Chesapeake City, Md., for the 2011 breeding season. The son of top sire Street Cry won the Hirsch Jacobs Stakes (gr. III, video below) over six furlongs and the Aventura Stakes ...

Originally published in the September 25, 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   Changes to Keeneland’s September yearling sale aside, it’s hard to get a good angle on the yearling market as the first week of the ...

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 ...