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I'm looking back at the Feb. 20, 2004, issue of The Blood-Horse MarketWatch awestruck at the numbers representing Bobby Frankel's racing year in 2003. He won 13.6% of the 353 graded stakes run in North America that year and won 35% of the grade I races. Frankel had 25 grade I wins and 48 graded stakes wins. Out of his 189 stakes starts in 2003, ...

Courtesy of Becky Johnston Just wanted to remember Bobby Frankel today and relive some of his greatest wins.  A filly he loved, Flute. 2001 Kentucky Oaks   Frankel did a masterful job of handling Sightseek's career knowing her strengths and sticking with them.2004 Ruffian Stakes   Then there is Megahertz, ...

Thanksgiving isn't until next week, but it's not too early to start giving thanks. Everyone participating in the Keeneland November breeding stock sale should be grateful to Overbrook Farm and foreign buyers. Without them, the auction would have been a miserable experience in its early days even though the best available stock was being ...

Dutchess Views is home some of the more promising young stallions in the Empire State. The A. P. Indy son Anasheed (TrueNicks,SRO) was the second leading sire first crop sire in New York last year and ranks among the top five second crop stallions this year. Among his top runners so far is the multiple stakes winner Garter Belt.Roaring ...

These are the final words from here on the Horse of the Year debate between racing's two monarchs, Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta. Unfortunately, only one likely will be crowned, but you can be sure both will rule in the hearts and minds of most racing fans. What follows below is based on the facts, with a little emotion thrown ...

Millionaire Sir Shackleton (TrueNicks,SRO) was one of the better middle distance runners during the middle portion of this decade. He chalked up wins in the West Virginia Derby (gr. III) and the Derby Trial (gr. III) at 3. At 4, he set a track record when winning the Richter Scale Breeders' Cup Sprint Championship H. (gr. II) and placed in three ...

Anyone else have a Breeders' Cup hangover? Maybe it's the euphoria wearing off after a terrific weekend of championship racing, or the impending long, cold Kentucky winter that is just around the corner, but whatever the reason, it feels like I downed a 12-pack the night before and it has zapped all of the racing enthusiasm from my body. I ...

By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRA Zenyatta's magnificent performance in this year's BC Classic has done exactly what I (and plenty of others, I'm sure) predicted back in September -- it has provided the one possible roadblock to Rachel Alexandra being crowned the 2009 Horse of the Year. Zenyatta's victory last Saturday spurred ...

The typically strong Highcliff roster has been bolstered even further by the additions of Congaree (TrueNicks,SRO) and Cosmonaut (TrueNicks,SRO).Multiple grade I winner Congaree moves to Highcliff from Adena Springs in Kentucky. He now ranks as the leading second crop sire in New York after ranking among the top ten first crop sires nationally ...

The Blood-Horse MarketWatch recently published an updated ''Prospective Stallions of 2010'' list for its subscribers. The 12-page report identifies intact horses whose racing careers merit consideration for service in the breeding shed. While reviewing the listings, my eye was drawn to the name of a grade II winner -- or, actually, to his ...