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Sam the Bugler played ''Oh, Suzanna'' as the seven fillies entered the track for the Alabama.  He might as well have played ''O Canada!'' when they exited. Careless Jewel, the recent Delaware Oaks winner that came from Woodbine with trainer Josie Carroll and jockey Robert Landry, was a magnificent winner of Saratoga's premier race for ...

There was crazy talk Friday morning following a published piece in The Saratogian newspaper.  Writer Paul Post reported that former state Racing and Wagering Board Chairman John Van Lindt predicted that daily purses at the Spa Course will reach $1 million once the Aqueduct racino starts up.  The Phish concert was held at SPAC ...

A few things...  Jockeys season 2 begins tonight on Animal Planet! This video was brought to my attention via TheBrockTalk, who is a recent addition to the Thoroughbred Bloggers Alliance and a fellow racing enthusiast.   

Each morning, an attendant at Bunbury's Pub, the new tented simulcast restaurant in the backyard, sets out 18 tables.  On most days, all but a dozen and a half are taken.  ''Business is a little slow today,'' said Eric Harris, a former Siena College basketball player on the school's MAAC championship team, now serving as a waiter, ...

  After hearing rumblings at work and on the sale grounds about Jim Squires' new book, ''Headless Horsemen,'' I decided to read it and find out what all the fuss was about. It's one man's view of the Thoroughbred industry, and it's not pretty. But I also can't say that a lot of it isn't true.   In regard to underhanded dealings at ...

Here's the scenario: You have been a huge fan of horse racing for many years. It has always been a dream of yours to own a top-class racehorse, but until now, you have never had enough money to do so. However, just recently you came into a windfall of cash and now you are going to live your dream. You have $100,000 to spend and you've decided ...

Editor's note:  Dr. Robert Fishman shares his story about breeding recent stakes winner Girlfrienontheside. We've read of the breeding considerations that resulted in her dam, Refrain (see part I,  part II, and part III of the series). Here we continue the story, picking up with the stakes-winner as a newly-born filly, and also find ...

There was a Women's Day Expo on the outer fringes of the Saratoga Racecourse backyard.  NYRA officials promoted the event by reminding the press that nearly half of the track's attendance is female. Meanwhile, across Union Avenue, in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, attention was cast upon Chip Woolley, Jr. - a ''man's man,'' ...

There was some activity of note among the younger stallions over the past weekend. Second-crop sire Even the Score (TrueNicks,SRO) , who had Secretariat Stakes (gr. IT) winner Take the Points a week earlier, was represented by Four Gifts (a graded winner earlier this year), who took the $250,000 Charles Town Oaks. She is out of a mare by ...

Jess Jackson has made his first decision: No Alabama for Rachel Alexandra. So what, you might say. That wasn't the place to run her anyway. Well, I believe that's just where she should have run. Yes, I know that race would have proven little, and that she has transcended 3-year-old filly competition (using the word competition very loosely). But ...