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By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRA   As we all know by now, Rachel Alexandra received the Eclipse Award as 2009 Horse of the Year Monday night in Beverly Hills. Thus ended a nearly three-month long debate between two passionate camps. One group of fans favored Rachel Alexandra, the talented, precocious filly with eight wins ...

It’s only the third week in January, but the classic generation are already beginning to crank up. As far as the Derby is concerned the most significant race was the San Rafael Stakes (gr. III).This was won by unbeaten Conveyance, a son of Indian Charlie (TrueNicks,SRO). The dam, Emptythetill, is by Holy Bull (TrueNicks,SRO) , out of a Mr. ...

It is like the ingredients are mixed right to cook a sweet Red Velvet cake (my favorite), but we need the chef to bake it correctly or a bitter taste could replace a delicious opportunity. If the Thoroughbred Industry can't do anything to help it’s self this year, then I vote the industry is just at a sad place internally. I ...

Even though it was only a little over two months, it seemed as though the Horse of the Year debate had gone on forever. Now that it is finally (and thankfully) over, I wanted to give people a final chance to express their thoughts before we move on. The voting did lose a bit of its luster since Jerry Moss announced that Zenyatta would return in ...

By Chris Dawahare, Operations Manager for BloodHorse.com  Earlier today, we transitioned into a new phase of the BloodHorse.com homepage redesign. You will notice a completely new look for the Racing, Breeding, and Sales sections of the homepage. We've made it easier to access race results, entries, sire lists, and sale results. In ...

So you thought the Zenyatta/Rachel debate was over, huh? Well, it looks as though we won't have to let the Eclipse Awards settle this argument for us after all. Now that John Shirreffs and Jerry Moss have decided to return the champion mare to racing, we can all start the speculation again: Where will the two great horses meet in 2010? (They ...

Have you ever met anyone you idolized and you sort of lose consciousness and don’t know what you are saying or doing?  Well, I had that moment.Vic Stauffer, John Shireffs and Steve Willard were nice enough to arrange a meeting with the great Zenyatta while we were in California for the BCS National Championship Game.  Before I knew what ...

With new 3-year-old stars emerging every week as we get ready to wind down the 2010 Triple Crown trail, let's take a quick look back at a popular star from last year--Old Fashioned. If I recall correctly, he was a colt that many regular contributors of this blog were very fond of. I was among those that were disappointed when his career ...

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