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So, you’ve had it with drugs and wish racing was like it used to be – just hay, oats, and water. Well, we hate to disillusion anyone, but America was never the way it used to be.From its very beginning, racing in America has been plagued by drugs, most of them a great deal more potent than the ones that have received all the headlines the past ...

Top Japanese jockey Yuichi Fukunaga is coming to ride in the United States for a couple of months. Yuichi's visit will begin June 28th and he'll ride at Churchill Downs until July 1st. Then he'll venture to Betfair Hollywood Park and Del Mar, according to my Twitter acquaintance Kuniyasu Arai (@uk_maniax). On June 3, Strong Return won the Yasuda ...

Thank you for listening! The controversial subject of furosemide, the anti-bleeder medication widely used in North American racing, will be the subject of the next ''Talkin' Horses with The Blood-Horse'' live podcast at 2 p.m., Tuesday, June 26 on BloodHorse.com/TalkinHorses. During the podcast, the medication marketed under the trade ...

(Originally published in the June 30, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Eric Mitchell - @EJMitchellKy on Twitter The sledgehammer-like beating the Thoroughbred racing industry has taken recently in the New York Times over drug use has been ...

(Originally published in the June 30, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  There is some kind of solid connection among A. Stevens Miles Jr., his horses, and his hometown of Louisville. The retired CEO of First Kentucky National Bank has served on ...

Each year, I keep thinking there is no cure for Triple Crown trail withdrawal, and each year I am reminded that there is a cure, and it’s called Royal Ascot, which thankfully comes only 10 days after the Belmont Stakes. But, that poses a new problem. What is the cure for Royal Ascot withdrawal? That one we haven’t been able to figure out.The five ...

So, after nearly 40 years, the Maryland Jockey Club, after hearing two hours of testimony and forensic analyses, finally has awarded the Preakness stakes record to Secretariat. When Penny Chenery first began her crusade to change Big Red’s time in 1973, it appeared as if the true time was 1:53 2/5 instead of 1:54 2/5 instead of 1:55.It was ...

(Originally published in the June 23, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Eric Mitchell - @EJMitchellKy on Twitter Churchill Downs shook up the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) trail last week by tossing out its requirement to ...

(Originally published in the June 16, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) by Lenny ShulmanParticipants in the Thoroughbred industry often speak of the highest highs and the lowest lows that they experience during the course of their years in the ...