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[audio url=''http://www.bloodhorse.com/content/audio/BHTH20121120CharlieLopresti.mp3'' title=''Talkin Horses: Trainer Charlie Lopresti''] Talkin’ Horses with Charlie Lopresti Charlie Lopresti, the trainer of exciting Breeders’ Cup Mile (gr. IT) winner Wise Dan, was the guest on Blood-Horse.com’s popular podcast Talkin’ Horses on Tuesday, Nov. ...

Whether you call it karma or any other name, there comes a time and place in everyone’s life when positive forces meet at once and create moments to cherish for all time.For a 4-year-old Thoroughbred named Fort Larned, his trainer Ian Wilkes, owner and breeder Janis Whitham, and jockey Brian Hernandez Jr., those positive forces came together on ...

JUVENILE SPRINT – Merit Man, undefeated winner of the Tim Conway Stakes has the speed, the numbers, and a win over the track, and should be the horse to beat. Bob Baffert is always tough, so you have to give Super Ninety Nine a shot. South Floyd, runner-up in the Tim Conway, has the early speed and is from the dangerous Doug O’Neill barn.But there ...

(Originally published in the November 3, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Eric Mitchell - @BH_EMitchell on Twitter Thoroughbred racing has certainly taken its lumps over the years for not embracing television in the early years. Who knows ...

It was a tale of two coasts Sunday morning. On the west coast, an invigorating chill in the air; a bright blue, cloudless sky; the San Gabriel mountains so clear and sharp it was as if you could reach out and touch them; hundreds of people gathered at Clocker’s Corner as dozens upon dozens of horses decked out in Breeders’ Cup saddle towels ...

(Originally published in the October 27, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Eric Mitchell - @BH_EMitchell on Twitter Recently completed at Keeneland is what has become one of Thoroughbred racing’s most important annual events—the Welfare and ...

(Originally published in the October 20, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) By Evan Hammonds - @BH_EHammonds on Twitter Love or hate the two-day, 15-race Breeders’ Cup format, the addition of a pair of turf races for 2-year-olds has opened up a ...

Lexington, Ky. – October 16, 2012 - Steve Haskin, Senior Correspondent for The Blood-Horse, was a guest on Talkin’ Horses with The Blood-Horse live podcast at 2 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 23. Haskin discussed his insight and thoughts on this year's Breeders' Cup. Steve Haskin is an award-winning Turf writer renowned for his Kentucky Derby ...