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By William Shanklin  CNN.com earlier this year posted an article titled “The Rise and Rise of Fantasy Sports,” in which it reported the activity is expanding at double-digit rates. The Fantasy Sports Trade Association estimates 27.1 million adults in the United States currently participate in and will spend roughly $4 billion on virtual ...

Welcome to the TrueNicks 2010 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga NY Bred Preferred Yearlings auction page. The sale will be held August 7-8 in Saratoga Springs, New York. August 7th - Hips 301-388, 7 PM August 8th - Hips 389-475, 7 PM (NOTE: Click here for the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Selected Yearlings Sale to be held August 2-3) TrueNicks are available for ...

The last three months have been incredible for offspring of the late Maria's Mon. Sire of two Kentucky Derby (gr. I) winners in Monarchos (TrueNicks,SRO) (2001) and Super Saver (2010), and 2006 Champion Three-Year-Old filly Wait a While, Maria's Mon died in 2007 at the young age of 14. His final crop includes 100 two-year-olds of 2010. ...

Marlang had not won a race since capturing the Saranac Stakes (gr. III) in August, 2008, but the now five-year-old returned to the winner’s circle at the weekend leading throughout to take the Sunset Handicap (gr. III). Marlang is by Langfuhr (TrueNicks,SRO), and he’s not the first son of his sire we recall pulling a similar trick. Last year, the ...

Horse (First-place votes)                Points1 -- Zenyatta  (89)                         1,4362 -- Ruffian  ...

When buyers judge horses physically, they examine at a variety of things, including the angles of the legs and shoulders and the appearance of the head and neck. They also look at a horse's overall body type.   A popular body type today is the longer, leaner, leggier look. Strapping, rangy horses, like the ones sired by Medaglia d'Oro, ...

By Lenny Shulman (Originally published in the July 17, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)    With the year’s initial sale of yearlings in the rearview mirror, what do we make of the Thoroughbred industry’s journey along ...

Breeding a mare by a stallion whose only group wins came at six furlongs, to a stallion whose two group wins came at five furlongs is not exactly the usual way of getting a 1½ mile classic winner. But when the stallions in question are Danehill and Pivotal, normal principals don’t always apply. Thus we have the 2010 Deutsches Derby (gr. I) hero, ...

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By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRA   Earlier this month, I took advantage of the long Fourth of July holiday weekend to spend a few days with family and friends and get away from the constant barrage of phone, e-mail and  text messages which tend to dominate work life for so many of us these days.  Well, honestly, ...