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  • 2/9/2013 West Coast Regional: Out of This World

    Linda Madsen brings Thoroughbreds to Milky Way Farm by Tracy Gantz Linda Madsen can’t point to one incident in her life that put her on the path to Thoroughbreds. It could have been that first visit to Santa Anita Park with her mother on her seventh birthday, her marriage to Thoroughbred veterinarian Dr. Larry Seeman, or the time neighbor Dan ...
    Posted to The Blood-Horse Regionals (FileGallery) by aspradling on 02-05-2013

  • Derby Dozen (video) - February 5, 2013 - Presented by Shadwell Farm

    [brightcove videoid=''2141887310001''] 1 Violence Todd Pletcher Medaglia d’Oro—Violent Beauty, by Gone West Resisting the temptation to replace him on top with one of the brilliant winners from this past weekend. Can’t forget the fact that he won his career debut in 1:22 4/5 at Spa and then won the Nashua in 1:35 1/5, so he’s pretty ...
    Posted to Steve Haskin's Derby Dozen (Weblog) by aspradling on 02-04-2013

  • Haskin's Derby Trail: Points of Interest

    The Kentucky Derby graded earnings system is gone, thank goodness. No more one-time 2-year-old hotshots getting a free pass and riding the gravy train all the way to Louisville. Those lucrative 2-year-old races no longer will get you a starting berth in the Derby, although we feel some tweaking is needed to separate the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, ...
    Posted to Hangin' With Haskin (Weblog) by aspradling on 01-31-2013

  • 2/2/2013 Midwest/Canada Regional: Facing the Challenge

    Tom Roche makes a go of it at his Carmalley Valley Farm in Missouri. by Claire Novak Success in thoroughbred racing is difficult to find and producing the “big horse” is even harder, yet hundreds of small-scale breeding operations persevere. What exactly inspires an owner to invest time and money into what is guaranteed to be an uphill battle? ...
    Posted to The Blood-Horse Regionals (FileGallery) by aspradling on 01-29-2013

  • Kentucky Horsepower - by Eric Mitchell

    (Originally published in the February 1, 2013 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Eric Mitchell - @BH_EMitchell on Twitter The conclusion of a recent National Agricultural Statistics Service economic survey reaffirmed what we’ve known for many ...
    Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by aspradling on 01-29-2013

  • Derby Dozen (video) - January 29, 2013 - Presented by Shadwell Farm

    [brightcove videoid=''2125079616001''] 1 Violence Todd Pletcher Medaglia d’Oro—Violent Beauty, by Gone West Have to stick with him for the time being. Cannot find any flaws in his record, running style, attitude, and pedigree. He’s got it all, and until they beat him he has to be considered top dog. And he is a grand-looking colt. ...
    Posted to Steve Haskin's Derby Dozen (Weblog) by aspradling on 01-28-2013

  • Glorious Change - by Eric Mitchell

    (Originally published in the January 26, 2013 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Eric Mitchell - @BH_EMitchell on Twitter A filly named Glorious Dancer caused two significant changes in the life of horseplayer Michael Beychok.The first occurred ...
    Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by aspradling on 01-23-2013

  • January 26, 2013 - Venereal Diseases

    Equine STDs can affect pregnancy outcomes and breeding stock’s welfare by Christa Leste-Lasserre STDs. They’re the kind of thing many people would rather not discuss. Disease transmission through sexual contact or bodily fluids such as semen and blood is still a taboo subject, even in 2013. But the reality is that as long as Thoroughbred ...
    Posted to Health Zone (FileGallery) by aspradling on 01-23-2013

  • 1/19/2013 Southwest Regional: Trophy Presentation

    Richard Hessee brings Brahms and The Daddy to Arkansas’ Trophy Club by Lenny Shulman While stallion owners in Thoroughbred breeding hotbeds such as Kentucky and New York compete tooth-and-nail to attract mare owners to their stud horses, sometimes it’s nice to be a big fish in a small pond a couple of turns off the beaten path. So says ...
    Posted to The Blood-Horse Regionals (FileGallery) by aspradling on 01-23-2013

  • Big Red and the Winter of '73

    It’s hard to believe 40 years have passed since the winter of 1973. Racing’s two hubs as usual were Hialeah and Gulfstream in Florida and Santa Anita in California. The only sounds that were heard at Aqueduct were the winds howling off Jamaica Bay and the squawking of the seagulls. Soon, track workers would begin preparation for opening day on ...
    Posted to Hangin' With Haskin (Weblog) by aspradling on 01-21-2013
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