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Over the next two weekends, 41 graded stakes will be run. Many of them will have Breeders' Cup implications. All of them present us with an opportunity to make money. Let's get to work. On Saturday, Belmont takes center stage with five grade I's on Jockey Club Gold Cup day. Let's take a brief look at each of them and try to put together a winning ...

After two posts and 232 comments by our readers, it is now time for you to vote on the stallion that you would like to see Rachel Alexandra mated to in her first season at stud. We must say that there were some outstanding suggestions made by our TrueNicks community and we are thrilled that you have taken the time to come up with the suggestions ...

By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRA   Last week I told you I would be speaking to marketers from across the country at the NTRA's Marketing Summit in Las Vegas.  I asked for your ideas and you responded -- man, did you ever respond!  I received almost 50 substantive, insightful, passionate responses. ...

Jukebox Jury, a group winner at two and three, notched his first win at the highest level when capturing the Preis Von Europe (gr. I). Out of Mare Aux Fees, he is one of two stakes winners from only four foals by Montjeu out of mares by Kenmare (and rated A++ by TrueNicks), a pattern that gives inbreeding to Zeddaan, the grandsire of Kenmare, and ...

In a post three weeks ago, I asked Are Names an Advantage at Yearling Sales? and indicated that I was surprised by the apparent advantage of named hips at the Keeneland September sale in recent years.  I promised to take a closer look -- comparing named versus unnamed foals by book rather than across the whole sale to eliminate any skew that ...

Second season sire Toccet had an interesting stakes double over the weekend, winning both the British Columbia Derby (gr. III) with Winning Machine, and the British Columbia Oaks with La Rocca. He now has four stakes winners from his first crop, and a stakes winning two-year-old from his second crop. Winning Machine, out of a mare by Carson City, ...

This year's Perfect Trip Award will recognize a Breeders' Cup Challenge race winner from this season's North American races that best exemplifies a ''Perfect Trip''. The winner will be selected from a panel of racing experts and will have the opportunity to experience his or her own ''Perfect Trip'' through Sentient Jet, with ...

After reading Bill Farish’s pointed attack at Kentucky Senate President David Williams, it is easy to say the Farish family, staunch Republicans, has decided the fight for video lottery terminals in the state is about business, not politics. But speaking during the Keeneland September sale the day after his letter was published, Farish said that ...

If you were a commercial breeder, finding the silver lining in the cloud at the Keeneland September yearling sale was difficult. High stud fees for this crop of yearlings, a huge supply of horses at a time when demand was falling, and the effects of months of economic woes here and abroad created at perfect storm of misery for sellers and for ...

I arrived back home in Lexington yesterday morning after a much-enjoyed week of sunny relaxation on the Florida Gulf. Because of friends' status updates on Facebook (sad but true), I knew Kentucky had experienced a week of non-stop rain, and that the temperatures had dropped a bit. I guess I sort of ignored the news though (it was in the 90s and ...