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Courtesy of Becky Johnston  Are the fans ruining the sport? Is Zenyatta great?  She has only run outside California once.  She's never faced the boys, until now.  She's never raced a longer distance.  She's never raced on grass.  She needs to race on dirt again.  She is too one dimensional.  She needs ...

I have written a lot lately about the importance of wagering to the overall economic health of Horseracing.  Contrary to what some might think, though, I am equally passionate about the many opportunities to sell horse racing as the exciting sporting competition that it is.  And no racing competition is more exciting than the ...

Holy grade I winners, Batman.  Better Than Honour just saw another foal take some impressive black type when Man of Iron nosed out a win in the Breeder's Cup Marathon (a race destined to earn grade I status upon eligibility). Thought this was a good time to reflect a bit on a great mare.  Here's a few previous articles on the Deputy ...

After a long week of handicapping, here are my Saturday thoughts... Juvenile Turf When considering morning-line favorite Interactif, there are two ways to look at the full field that he is facing: If you like him, you should be thrilled that you are likely to get a more than fair price. Or if you think he is vulnerable, there are no shortage of ...

Courtesy of Becky Johnston Looking over the Breeders' Cup card I began to see a trend.  Colts that ran well in their own edition of the Cup make good broodmare sires.   Ten of the Broodmare Sires represented were winners of 11 Breeders' Cup races.   Here are some stallions that will be represented this weekend (BC plus ...

We haven't had a photo competition in a long, long time. This time around, we're playing for honor and pride and pretty much anything except a prize (to be reinstituted another day...). The rules are simple.  Below are six images from various collections at The Blood-Horse building.  Identify as many of the horses as you can and post ...

With close to 500 responses, the TrueNicks community overwhelmingly picked Horse of the Year Curlin to top the potential matings for super mare Rachel Alexandra. Some would say that it was an unsurprising result given the ownership of the two horses, but it was a very competitive voting process and there were a number of stallions who were well ...

Ok fellow handicappers, the time has come for Breeders' Cup selections. I have received many of your picks for the contest, so I have an idea of what you guys are thinking. I don't like picking winners two days out and I will be handicapping up to the races on Friday, but I do want to get this out there so that we can open up dialogue on each ...

You would think Eileen Mayer never heard of P.T. Barnum. Mayer is Chief of Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation. Her job involves overseeing probes into claims of tax fraud. Barnum, of course, was the famous 19th century master of hoaxes, founder of the outfit that would become the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus, and ...

We touched on the pedigree of Sky Mesa (TrueNicks,SRO) 's latest stakes winner in our last post (Iroquois S. (gr. III) winner Thisskyhasnolimit) Another Pulpit (TrueNicks,SRO) son, freshman sire Purge (TrueNicks,SRO) , got off the mark with his first stakes winner last Saturday when Macias took the Jack Goodman Stakes at Oak Tree-at-Santa Anita. ...