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Relaunch -- the most prominent conduit of In Reality's sire line in 2009 -- was well-represented in the pedigrees of weekend stakes winners. These days, Relaunch might be best known as the grandsire of Tiznow (SRO) and Put It Back (SRO) and great-grandsire of Officer (SRO) -- but the 1979 Del Mar Derby (gr. IIIT) winner has really left his ...

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By Frank Vespe, That's Amore Stable, LLC  “It’s a beautiful day for a night game.” So said the Fordham Flash, baseball Hall of Famer Frankie Frisch, sometime around 1935.  Which almost makes it sound as if the good Jesuits at Fordham were churning out classes of Dizzy Dean-wannabes in the early part of the last century. Nonetheless, ...

Lucien Laurin, wearing a bright burgundy sport jacket, bent down to tighten the girth on Secretariat, and then placed the colt’s familiar blue and white checked blinkers on his head. Big Red stood motionless on the Pimlico grass course saddling area staring straight ahead, his muscle lines rippling and his golden chestnut coat as radiant as ever. ...

Sunday was a huge day for Dynaformer (TrueNicks,SRO) , who scored an international ''classic'' group/grade I double.Wiener Walzer (GER) scored Sunday in the IDEE Deutsches Derby (Ger-I) and Gozzip Girl captured the  American Oaks Invitational Stakes (gr. IT) the same day. What's particularly interesting is that both Wiener Walzer and ...

Why in the world has racing not been doing this longer?! That is my first and foremost thought on this experience. http://www.churchilldowns.com/downs-after-darkChurchill asked visitors to vote on whether they should continue to do night racing or not. With the largest crowd of the meet next to Derby, Oaks, and Breeders' Cup days, it's a ...

As I do many times when my family and friends come in from out of town, I took my uncle and his family over to the good folks at Three Chimney's Farm as part of our July 4th weekend. Being from Philly, they were very anxious to meet Smarty Jones. Although it was a Sunday on a holiday weekend, Three Chimney's stallion manager Sandy Hatfield was ...

After hearing nothing from his ''dates'' all year but ''Don't call me, I'll call you,'' one of racing's most desirable leading men, who keeps getting dumped like yesterday's trash, should have put an ad in the classifieds: ''Millionaire sports hero with terrific personality who loves to travel and has been on ...

(Originally published in the July 11, 2009 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  In the midst of a stinging defeat for expanded gaming in Kentucky, it was discovered that people will still attend a racetrack - without slots - and have fun doing so. But not for the ...