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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 ...

On 27 Jul 2010 8:46 PM, John writes: ''Why does Rachel Alexandra get an A++, while Zenyatta gets just an A+? Am I missing something?'' Ian's response: Hi John, Thanks for your question. TrueNicks is a sire line nicking program that measures how well a sire line/broodmare sire line cross has fared at producing stakes winners. TrueNicks is a ...

A colleague recently pointed out an interesting story from the July 2010 issue of Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder Incorporating Pacemaker. In a profile of breeders Eric and ''Budgie'' Moller, Jeremy Early explains that the Moller's foundation broodmare, Horama – a 2,100 guineas yearling purchase who won four races at five furlongs – became ancestress ...

(Originally published in the July 31, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Eric MitchellMonmouth Park’s great experiment may all be for naught. The Jersey Shore racetrack was told last year it needed to do something bold to prove that ...