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The fireworks of Keeneland's two-day Book One yesterday and today, interrupted by Fasig-Tipton's prestigious Selected sale held last evening, have been muted rather predictably by drops in gross, averages, and medians. I watched a few of my favorite mares walk through the ring to final bids of no more than double my annual salary (which is to ...

Let's start out by announcing the winner of the Breeders' Cup handicapping contest. First of all, thanks to everyone who played; we had a great turnout, more than 50 entries. And the winner is: Larry Sealy, whose picks added up to a total of $146. Larry's big score came in the Juvenile, as he had the exacta cold including Vale of York to win ...

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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?