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Welcome to the TrueNicks 2010 OBS August Open Yearlings auction page. The sale will be held August 24 in Ocala, Florida. Wednesday, August 25 - Hips 201-550, 10:30 AM Thursday, August 26 - Hips 551-901, 10:30 AM NOTE: Click here for the OBS August Selected Yearling Sale to be held August 24. This sale includes Hips 1-200. TrueNicks are ...

Welcome to the TrueNicks 2010 OBS August Selected Yearlings auction page. The sale will be held August 24 in Ocala, Florida. Tuesday, August 24 - Hips 1-200, 1 PM TrueNicks are available for the sale's offerings listed here by hip number. To generate a TrueNicks report, click on the link beneath the hip number. NOTE: Click here for the OBS ...

This summer’s best Saratoga book is Saratoga in Bloom by Glens Falls, NY-born and raised author and photographer Janet Loughrey. Although Loughrey’s illustrated 176-page masterpiece is not about horses or horse racing per se, it reveals plenty of factoids relating to the subjects. For example, did you know that long ago the track converted some ...

My Through the Lens blog is here to stay. I will be discussing recent shoots, historical shoots, future shoots and I’ll be glad to answer any questions you have. Thanks for stopping by. Feel free to add me to your RSS feed and follow along.  The url is: http://www.throughthelensblog.comThe Blood-Horse recently did a feature on Claiborne Farm ...

The Jim Dandy Stakes (gr. II) will be run Saturday, July 31. Post time is 5:48 pm ET. Click the link for each contender to view a complimentary report.   1 - Steinbeck (6-1) FREE TrueNicks report for Steinbeck 2 - Afleet Express (4-1) FREE TrueNicks report for Afleet Express 3 - Stormy's Majesty (15-1) FREE TrueNicks report ...

Of the first six foals produced by the great mare Hasili, only one did not capture a group or grade I event. However, that one, Dansili, may well turn out to be the most influential of all of his dam’s offspring, at least in the foreseeable future. Of course, although Dansili never captured a group I event, the son of Danehill ...

The New York City Off-Track Betting Corp. launched the first legal off-track betting operation in the United States in 1971 and took in $66,091 in opening-day handle. It had only two branches and a telephone betting center.NYCOTB eventually grew to 60 full-service branches, plus restaurants and teletheaters. Currently, it employs about 1,500 ...

Shortly before Saratoga racing took its Tuesday Sabbatical, the town's preservationists gathered at the city library to hear what the locals wanted done when NYRA came into some money.  Public forums like this sprout up all over town; you just have to stay alert in order to spot them. More trees, less concrete; a revival of the old ...

The Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation published its second annual listings of stallions based on durability in an advertisement that appeared in a recent edition of The Blood-Horse. The stallions were ranked based on the performance of their offspring using the average number of lifetime starts per starter and the lifetime percentage of ...

Vineyard Haven is one of the most talented horses in training that has never raced in a classic or a Breeders' Cup. For the last two years he has been at the top of his class, but for a couple different reasons has not made it to the biggest races. Hopefully, that will change in November. In 2008 while owned by a partnership that included ...