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Sentient Jet presents The Perfect Trip award to Zenyatta, for her 2009 Lady's Secret Breeders' Cup race win. Zenyatta was chosen by a panel of racing experts and continues her unbeaten streak to 13 with this Breeders' Cup Challenge race win. On behalf of everyone at Sentient Jet, we are proud to honor Zenyatta's amazing year of racing, as well ...

Despite the legitimate gripes by Easterners about the Breeders’ Cup World Championships being run two consecutive years in California, there is much to like about having the races at Santa Anita. It is a beautiful place to watch horses train, offers majestic scenery (when the haze allows you to see it), and the weather Nov. 6-7 was nearly as ...

Over the course of the next week, we'll have several wrapups, going over different aspects of Breeders' Cup 2009, such as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, losing efforts in Breeders' Cup history, the rash of oddball winners, the much-discussed synthetic issue, holding the event at Santa Anita, the European success, Horse of the Year, the ...

.commentForm, .postComments, #comments{display:none;} It's the question every Thoroughbred racing fan is talking about - who should be named 2009 Horse of the Year? It's clearly a two horse race: Zenyatta vs. Rachel Alexandra. If you had a vote, how would you cast it?

My fellow bloggers, I humbly stand here before you to eat some crow, take the heat, face the music--whichever cliché you want to use that suits such an occasion. So here I am to say, I was wrong: Zenyatta is that good, and then some. As most of you know, I was very outspoken in the days leading up to Breeders' Cup Classic. I did not believe she ...

Courtesy of Becky Johnston By putting an emphasis on Zenyatta throughout the race, Trevor Denman made a perfect pairing of a memorable call with a race that will stand the test of time. Here is what I heard of Trevor Denman's call: Something about the others. ''Zenyatta is dead last, dead last early.'' yadda-yadda about the ...

Vale of York was one of two Breeders' Cup winners for sons of Green Desert, who has founded his own distinct branch of the Danzig line. Vale of York also has siblings close up as his sire, Invincible Spirit, is out of a mare by Kris, and his dam is by Halling, a son of Kris's full-brother, Diesis (he's the second stakes winner bred on this ...

Ten time stakes winner Costa Rising (TrueNicks,SRO) is one of the newest additions to the TrueNicks. He is one of the all-time great Louisiana-bred runners, amassing over $900,000 in career earnings, third most ever among La-breds. He won some of the most important stakes events in the state by laughingly large margins - the Louisiana Champions ...

 By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRA  Breeders' Cup 2009 was outstanding.  Competitive from top to bottom. Inclusive of many of the best horses from around the world. Maddeningly hard to predict for even the most skilled horse player. Life changing for the single winner of the $1.8 million BC Pick Six. And ...

TrueNicks is pleased to welcome Fleming Thoroughbred Farm in Willcox, Arizona, the first Arizona farm to sign on with TrueNicks. Distorted Reality (TrueNicks,SRO) stood his first year in Kentucky and will now take up residence at Fleming Thoroughbred for the 2010 season. As a three-year-old he ranked among the best turf runners of his ...