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There’s not much of the Saratoga experience left when non-stop rain ruins the picnicking and the racing is hit hard by scratches. The epitome of a let-down occurred when Sunday’s featured $150,000 stakes went forth with only three horses. But with 28 horses taken out and 61 left in, Monday’s card was prolonged agony. Turf racing was cancelled. The ...

There is nothing blind or lucky about Blind Luck. When it comes to seeing the finish line she has 20/20 vision, and despite her running style, she makes her own luck. In Blind Luck and her California compatriot, Evening Jewel, respective winners of the grade I Alabama and Del Mar Oaks, you have a pair of fierce fillies with a flair for ...

The recent decision by the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. not to conduct a February select sale of 2-year-olds in training (or combine it with the March select auction, however you wish to word it) in 2011 didn't come as a surprise. The sale had been on the endangered list for a quite a while. The catalogs had gotten smaller over time and when only 66 ...

After a deliberately low-key start to a season timed to peak for late summer and fall, Rip Van Winkle returned to his best to win a very strong renewal of the Juddmonte International (gr. I) over the title sponsor’s duo of Twice Over and Byword. Off the board behind Goldikova on his seasonal debut in the Queen Anne Stakes (gr. I), Rip Van Winkle ...

TrueNicks community user russf posted a comment under the recent blog post Updated Cross Notations for TrueNicks which we thought warranted a closer look at the logic flow behind the TrueNicks algorithm. russf commented: Congrats on these updated cross notations, this is helpful. But please help me understand how the algorithm decides which ...

Back when Saratoga raced 24 days, each of its four weekend Saturdays was marked by a Grade 1 stakes race.  Sundays were dark days. The Whitney came first, then the Alabama, followed by the Travers and, ultimately, the Hopeful.  For many horse racing fans, the Alabama Stakes was as meaningful as the Midsummer Derby.What was great about ...

The backstretch at 6:00 am is the only place and time where a man can find quiet. Those post card images of horses working – the steam coming from their nostrils like the smoke from a locomotive – are still seeable, provided you’re willing to wake up early.  By 8:30 am, it seems like a convention’s been called at the Morning Line for coffee ...

Before touching on a great weekend of racing, let me start out by stating six sweet words that should have racing fans around the nation jumping for joy: Santa Anita is returning to dirt. It's the best news we've heard from the California racing industry in a decade. Sure there are a few California-based trainers that prefer the disastrous ...

.postComments { DISPLAY: none } .commentsContainer { DISPLAY: none } .commentForm { DISPLAY: none } Case Clay, president of Three Chimneys Farm, will be the next guest on bloodhorse.com’s Talkin’ Horses. Case Clay returned to the Three Chimneys Team in 2004 after a year at the Irish ...

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. Book 1 ∙ Book 2 ∙ Book 3 ∙ Book 4 ∙ Book 5 ∙ Book 6 Session 1: Sunday, September 12 - Hips 1-105, 7 PM Session 2: Monday, September 13 - Hips 106-211, 7 PM TrueNicks are ...