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(Originally published in the May 15, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) For the last few years the mainstream press has told us Thoroughbred racing needs a Triple Crown winner, another Seabiscuit, a “big horse,” to save racing. While that ...

By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRA   I have been blogging about the NTRA Safety & Integrity Alliance for almost two years now.  What happened this week was some of the best Alliance news yet.  Pimlico has now been fully accredited. Why is this development such good news?  Because, just prior to the 2009 ...

Some sale toppers become successful racehorses. Others are never heard from again even though their conformation and pedigrees suggested they could become elite athletes. The jury is still out on Cocalero, but he made his career debut May 8 and broke his maiden by 1 ¾ lengths at seven furlongs at Belmont Park (VIDEO). Last year, he was the most ...

As of Monday afternoon, it looks as though there is going to be a full field of 14 for the Preakness. Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver will have no easy task if he is going to take the second leg of the Triple Crown--for many reasons. The son of Maria's Mon will not have the advantage of having a win--or a race--over the Pimlico oval, as he did ...

By Brock Sheridan, The Brock Talk  Horse racing being the fickle game that it is, makes it difficult to predict entries into a race next week. With that being said, it looks like the Preakness Stakes (gr. 1) will feature a full 14-horse gate when they go to the post May 15. It also looks like the Preakness will be evenly represented by ...

It has been described as funny, eye-catching, irreverent, offensive, and sexually suggestive. So which is it? Depends on your sense of humor—or lack thereof—and where your mind goes. If it works on all those levels, it works—period. More than a week before the May 15 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course, ticket sales were up 25% and are ...

The following (Part 2)  was written by my daughter Mandy for the May 3 issue of Stride magazine (http://issuu.com/stridemagonline/docs/stride5), accompanied by photos. If you missed Part 1, you can read it at the above address (Pages 50-53) or on the ''Hangin' With Haskin'' blog archive. I have been asked if I plan to stay involved in horse ...

TrueNicks has provided an auction page for next week's Barretts May Sale of Two-Year-Olds In Training at Fairplex Park in Pomona, California. The sale will be held on Monday, May 10, beginning at 2pm. The sale features 166 juveniles, and 58 rate A or better by TrueNicks. Among these highly-rated two-year-olds is a Benchmark (TrueNicks,SRO) full ...

Welcome to TrueNicks' auction page for the 2010 Barretts May Sale of Two-Year-Olds In Training. The sale will be held at Fairplex Park beginning at 2pm Monday, May 10. TrueNicks reports are available for the sale's offerings listed here by hip number. To generate a report, click on the link beneath the hip number.   Hip No. 1: ...

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