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NEWS RELEASE - For Immediate ReleaseFor more information, contact: Jan Meerdink(920) 725-0955 or (800) 635-6499editor@horseinfo.comBuyers & Sellers Need to Know ''What's That Thoroughbred Worth?''Here's the Fast, Easy Way to Find Out!NEENAH, WIS. - Fall sales are just weeks away and it's the question on everyone's mind. ''What's my ...

The bottom floor of the Carousel Restaurant was closed to the $2 bettors who go there to eat, drink and be merry.  In their place, the first Saratoga Handicapping Challenge was held for serious horseplayers with $1000 to spend on an entry fee.  Six women and 99 men constituted the registered field of 100 participants allowed by the rules ...

By Jennifer Wirth, The Saturday Post Luck is an interesting thing.You find it when you least expect it.And, in some moments, luck finds you.In the case of Blind Luck, it arrives when you’re not looking. In April of 2007, a mare named Lucky One gave birth to a foal in Kentucky at Fairlawn Farm.The foal’s father, Pollard’s Vision, was blind in one ...

photo by David Alcosser, courtesy Taylor Made TrueNicks welcomes grade I winner and three-year-old standout Eskendereya (TrueNicks). The son of leading sire Giant's Causeway will stand the 2011 breeding season at Taylor Made Stallions in Nicholasville, Ky., in partnership with Stonestreet Farm. Eskendereya became an early Kentucky ...

Kentucky horsemen, under difficult circumstances, have been largely supportive of shorter racing weeks to preserve purses and field size. However, there are growing concerns by some who say they can’t get their better stock into races. The situation is exacerbated by the slim pickings on the stakes calendar between the close of the Churchill ...

With the La Jolla Handicap (gr. II) set for this Saturday at Del Mar, featuring Santa Anita Derby (gr. I) winner Sidney's Candy, let's take a brief look at the 1979 La Jolla winner – Relaunch. The three-year-old Relaunch won three starts at Del Mar during the month of August, 1979 – first was an easy five-length win in a 8.5-furlong turf ...

TrueNicks welcomes Alluvial (TrueNicks,SRO), half brother to successful sire Stormy Atlantic standing at Breeders Station near Lexington. An eight-year-old son of Forestry, Alluvial was produced from Santa Anita Oaks (gr. I) winner Hail Atlantis (by Seattle Slew). In addition to Alluvial and Stormy Atlantic, Hail Atlantis has produced stakes ...

(Originally published in the August 14, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Eric MitchellIt’s easy to fall into the “racing is doomed” mentality. Handle nationwide is down, tracks have cut days because they don’t have enough horses, and the ...

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