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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 ...

Fasig-Tipton officials want to make the Saratoga select yearling sale the premier yearling sale in the world, and this year they've made progress toward reaching that goal based on sire power. This year's sale will have offspring of certain prominent veteran stallions than the 2008 edition of the auction did. There are seven yearlings sired by ...

We've written a lot abut this year's group of second-season stallions and one of that group -- Speightstown (TrueNicks,SRO) -- enjoyed a truly exceptional weekend. It started quietly enough Friday, with Fufty Too (A), taking the Dean Kutz Stakes at Canterbury Park. The primary importance of that victory was that it took Speightstown's total ...