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FENWICK EQUESTRIAN TO MANUFACTURE HIGH PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS FOR COMPETITION HORSES Launches FenwickEquestrian.com CAMDEN, S.C. (May 25, 2010) - Fenwick Equestrian, a new manufacturing company of equine products featuring high performance fabrics for horses of all disciplines, was launched today by Wilhelmina McEwan and her brother, Fred McEwan. ...

TrueNicks is proud to announce our newest stallion. The beautifully-bred Kitalpha (TrueNicks,SRO) stood his first five seasons in Zimbabwe, but when his runners so thoroughly dominated the racing scene in that country, Kitalpha was soon brought to Kentucky. His initial crop of 45 named foals included both the Zimbabwe Champion 2-Year-Old Colt and ...

The 2010 Triple Crown season has produced a couple of worthy winners with good stories behind them, but it also left us without a Triple Crown winner for yet another year. Not only that, but for the second straight year we will also have a different winner in all three of the classics. And with Dublin now out, we won't even a have a single ...

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There is nothing I can say about Skip Away and his owner Carolyn Hine and trainer Sonny Hine that has not been said in the following blog, first published on Dec. 22, 2008. So, I am reprinting it as a tribute to one of the toughest, most durable horses I have had the privilege to see run and the two people whose lives he encompassed. For ...

The Game-Changer of Racing:  Zenyatta's Rock-Star Power Reinvents the Royal Kingdom. By Jennifer Wirth, The Saturday Post I have a word in my arsenal that can start conversations about horse racing with people who have never bet a nickel on the nose of a horse.  It's a great word.  ''Zenyatta.''  For those of you ...

By Bill Pressey, ThoroEdge I'm sure I'll get skewered for this post from all the trainers out there, but here goes: We can't even have more than one Triple Crown RUNNER this year (Dublin as of this time), much less a winner. I don't need to go into training regimens of the top 3 year old contenders - because they are all essentially ...

(Originally published in the May 22, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) The Maryland Jockey Club changed owners April 30 but the shift was from Magna’s right hand to its left. A reorganization through bankruptcy turned Pimlico Race Course ...

The traditional Alibi Breakfast, held two days before the Preakness Stakes (gr. I), had just concluded, and Mike Pegram, Karl Watson, and Paul Weitman, owners of Lookin At Lucky, were milling about near the souvenir stand, ready to head down the stairs, when a crash was heard a few feet away. There on the floor, shattered in small pieces, ...