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As the sun begins to peek over the Adirondacks, a thin layer of fog still blankets the Oklahoma training track. Cars are pouring into the East Avenue gate to park on the grass near the top of the stretch. Across the street on Union Ave., people have been lined up for hours with their coolers and picnic accessories hoping to get a choice spot, ...

By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRA  Sunday night, the NTRA hosted its fifth NTRA Live! broadcast on NTRA.com.  Thousands of people from around the globe tuned in to watch Zenyatta extend her perfect record to 17-0.   Carrying the high weight of 129 lbs., Zenyatta gave everything she had to catch a very game St ...

By William Shanklin Sheikh Mohammed’s vision for a premier globally-oriented management training program pertaining to Thoroughbred breeding and racing came to fruition in 2003 with the launch of Darley Flying Start.The DFS curriculum takes two years to complete, with a first-year class and second-year class run concurrently. Each echelon is ...

By Keith McCalmont  Carolyn Costigan, conditioner of Woodbine Oaks contender Roan Inish, is a certified student of the training game.As a graduate of the Darley Flying Start Program, Costigan travelled the world while learning the business under the tutelage of such well-regarded horsemen as Kiaran McLaughlin in New York, Lee Freedman in ...

It was the morning of June 5, and Bill Mott sat atop his pony outside his barn reflecting on the Belmont Stakes (gr. I), to be run later that afternoon. Mott had never won the Belmont, or any classic for that matter, but he was hoping to fill that one major void in his Hall of Fame career. “When it’s ready to happen, it’ll happen,” Mott ...

By Tim Capps It is hard to pick up a publication or listen to a news or commentary show without hearing talk about sustainability, which in current vernacular is code for sustaining the environment. We are in the “green” era, when the people of the planet are seriously thinking about how to maintain the habitability of the planet for future ...

By William Shanklin  Individuals doing business in the racing industry have found that mobile communications devices are simultaneously a boon and a burden. Trainers, for example, can more easily update their owners, but the downside is they can be swamped by incoming messages. Utilizing cell phones, computers, and e-mail without becoming a ...

Preakness Stakes (gr. I) winner Lookin At Lucky, who was 2009's champion 2-year-old male, should teach shoppers at Thoroughbred auctions an important lesson, according to Jerry Bailey. ''It says to me that when people are buying horses, they should look for reasons to buy a horse rather than for reasons not to buy a horse,'' said the Florida ...