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Having been unveiled at the Fasig-Tipton Florida sale of juveniles earlier this year, new video kiosks were used for the first time at a yearling sale July 20-21 at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky. And they were hugely popular.It is vitally important for prospective buyers to gain information while a sale is underway, and the video kiosks make that much ...

Courtesy of Rob Fundter, The Amateur CapperTOP STALLIONS THROUGH MID-2009 WERE CONDITIONED BY FAMOUS AIDAN O'BRIEN AND UNDERRATED JAY ROBBINS TO FINISH A NECK APART IN 2000 BC CLASSIC GIANT'S CAUSEWAY has earned his sire's place atop the North American sire standings from his home at ASHFORD STUD.  The son of legendary OVERBROOK stallion ...

You have total amnesia. All you are told is your name and that you loved Thoroughbred racing, but you don't know why and cannot recall actually following the sport. You don't even know if you live in the United States or Europe. You have to start taking baby steps and learn to love racing all over again. You decide to spend a year in ...

  With the economy still struggling and the Thoroughbred marketplace taking some big hits late last year and earlier this year, there was more anxiety than usual heading into the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July select yearling sale. As expected, the auction was down from a year ago in three important statistical categories: gross, average price, ...

Scarcely a weekend goes by without sons of Danehill striking all over the world -- they had stakes winners in Europe, the U.S., and Australia over the latest weekend -- but they don't often match the achievement of Danehill Dancer (IRE), who had the first three home in the Camas Park and Ashtown House Studs Phoenix Stakes (Ire-I), a six-furlong ...

By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRAHere is the situation. Trillions in stock market value have disappeared.  Similarly, trillions in retirement savings are gone.  The nation’s credit markets are just beginning to recover from near-collapse.  Housing values are down.  College savings have been seriously ...

During the early stages of my interview with Jerry Moss earlier this week, two things became apparent to me right from the start: I wasn't going to get anything significant out of him regarding Zenyatta's future, and there is very little chance that she will ever face Rachel Alexandra. The latter did not surprise me one bit. I stated last month ...

Video games are a pretty big part of our culture these days. Many video gamers converse on the web, and recently a trend has arisen through these discussions to type certain phrases and actions as a ''command code.'' Command codes are typically entered into the developers console while playing a video game. The command code in the developer's ...

By Chris Dawahare When I was first introduced to Twitter several months ago, my initial reaction was ''Yawn''. After testing the waters for about two weeks, my seconday reaction was an even bigger yawn. Then, just as I was about to put a nail in the Twitter coffin, I discovered Tweet Deck (more on Tweet Deck a little later). I can't take ...