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  Back from beach vacation, so now it's time to get back to work. Following are some of the interesting pedigrees in the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky select yearling auction, scheduled for July 20 and 21:   FIRST SESSION, JULY 20 Hip No. 6, a First Samurai - Saunter colt that is a half-brother to Lafayette Stakes (gr. III) winner More Smoke ...

I can not promise anything other than thoughts, commentary and random things I think of or discover during the days at work. BUT I will say it should be entertaining =) The new discoveries is fitting for my blog though, since this blog is set out to be through the eyes of a new comer to the industry, discovery is inevitable.   So join ...

The title of this post is a bit misleading.  The great racemare Flawlessly won nine grade I contests and $2,572,536 during her multiple-championship career -- but her produce record is too short to judge, with only two Storm Cat fillies produced. Of them, the 1996 Flawlessness was a maiden winner who died at age 4, reportedly because of ...

Over the last two days we have learned that Zenyatta is likely not leaving California and Rachel Alexandra won't be going to California. Great, isn't it? The two most popular horses in training this year will not meet one another. Sound familiar? If it does, that's because we went through this same thing last year when we all envisioned a Big ...

As a native of New Jersey, I had the displeasure of witnessing a once-proud horse racing industry deteriorate. The third-biggest circuit in the country in terms of quality and pari-mutuel handle didn't go away overnight; it took about 25 years. Why? You can blame casino gambling, competition from other states--take your pick. I always blamed it ...

It was a relatively quiet weekend in international racing, but there was one classic in North America, Canada's classic Queen's Plate. The race went to favorite, Eye of the Leopard, who narrowly held of from Mr. Foricos Two U, with Canadian Oaks winner Milwaukee Appeal third. Eye of the Leopard certainly has the pedigree for the job as he ...

  During conversation with a co-worker a summer movie challenge arose for you to participate in. In the month of July, let’s try to view and discuss some of these movies in this blog post. We can discuss what we thought of the movie we saw and suggest other movies to check out, or possibly to never see. The list can be found a few paragraphs ...

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Rachel Alexandra will attempt to join a list of great fillies to have won past runnings of the Mother Goose. Rank these winners of this prestigious race: writeRanker(''http://i.bloodhorse.com/xml/ranking/mothergoosewinners.xml''); To participate, use your cursor to drag the selections on the left (currently arranged in ...