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Reader challenge: Identify the following four horses represented by their 3-cross pedigrees. Note that Broodmare Sire x is the same horse in all pedigrees, as is Sire y. It may be useful to consult the list of TrueNicks subscribed stallions to solve this week's puzzle. TrueNicks ratings are up-to-date as of time of publishing, but the exact ...

While I'm on vacation, I have asked Jordan Miller (who many of you know as Gun Bow) to contribute a guest blog.By Jordan Miller For me, there are few things as special in life as attending the races; I couldn't agree more with the euphemism that a bad day at the track is better than a good day most everywhere else.  Unfortunately, ...

By Lenny ShulmanFor the last nine months—or was it eons—the racing world has been fixated over a match-up that, like world peace, an edible fruitcake, or a Triple Crown winner, has remained tantalizingly out of reach.Gladly, the time has come to forego our dreams and desires concerning the two fabulous females. After all, a watched pot never ...

Some horsemen are complaining that they can't get their horses into a race.  The complaints are especially loud from trainers who have traveled their stock to Saratoga from long distances, specifically Kentucky and California.  PJ Campo, the racing secretary, has filled the majority of races that have been run at the meet to the ...

Judging by the style of his victory in the Haskell Invitational Handicap (gr. I), Lookin At Lucky (by Smart Strike (TrueNicks,SRO) out of Private Feeling by Belong to Me (TrueNicks,SRO), and TrueNicks rated A++) will be tough to dethrone by any other three-year-old, with possibly only Super Saver a threat should he find himself back in the ...

TrueNicks welcomes graded and multiple stakes winning sprinter Sing Baby Sing (TrueNicks,SRO), a new stallion for 2011 standing at Lane’s End Texas. A son of Unbridled's Song (TrueNicks,SRO), Sing Baby Sing captured the six-furlong Phoenix Stakes (gr. III) at Keeneland, and his career included stakes wins on dirt, turf, and synthetic, ranging ...

Charlie Zast of Queens, NY has never missed being in Saratoga on his birthday. But one of these years, August 1 will fall on a weekday and his mom and dad won't be able to drive him up the Taconic to see the ''heeshes'' on the date that he broke his horse racing maiden. In the meantime, he's here and he's happy. ''Heeshes'' is Charlie's ...

People pretending to be someone other than they are constituted a theme. Siro's booked an Elvis Presley tribute band to play in its backyard on Friday evening and the performer who played Elvis took his role so intently that you wondered if he was channeling the original.  Johnny Enright, a fellow from Malta, NY dressed as wrestler Hulk ...

Having established himself as the dominant horse in Macau – where he became the first Triple Crown winner – Luen Yat Forever is set to return to his homeland, Australia, to tackle top-class opposition. The announcement was made following his win in last Saturday’s Star of The Sand Stakes (Macau gr. II event), and the plan calls for his homecoming ...

Optimists will say that NYRA caught a break Thursday when Judge Barry D. Kramer, a former NBA basketball player, ruled that Aqueduct Entertainment Co. could not sue Lottery for excluding it from further consideration in the nine-year process to name a VLT operator for Aqueduct.  But pessimists will point out that Gov. Exit and the two ranking ...