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  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 ...

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On Saturday, Zenyatta will put her perfect 10-0 record on the line in the $250,000 Vanity Handicap, a race that she won by a half-length a year ago. The sensational 5-year-old mare will likely get her first real test of season in the 1 1/8-mile contest at Hollywood, mainly because she will be forced to carry 129 pounds. The most popular ...

It’s a shame Vincent O’Brien didn’t hang on a couple more weeks. The legendary Irish trainer, who died June 1 at age 91, would have loved the just-concluded Royal Ascot meeting, in particular the success enjoyed by American conditioner Wesley Ward. It was O’Brien, more than 40 years earlier, who showed American-bred horses could win major races ...

It was a cringe moment, and not the first. During his June 22 presentation before the Kentucky Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee, David Edmunds of the Family Foundation, in an attempt to show how bad gaming is, discussed how casino owner Louis DeNaples lost his license in Pennsylvania. Edmunds associated DeNaples with horse racing and ...

On June 22nd, a party-line vote in the Republican-heavy Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee killed legislation to authorize video lottery terminals at racetracks in Kentucky. The vote was 10-5, with one abstention. You can read the full story here.  We want to hear from you. Do you agree with the Kentucky Senate's decision? What ...

My high school's motto was mens sana in corpore sano: (strive for) a healthy mind in a healthy body. That's exactly the goal that horse owners should have for their charges.  I'm an advocate of pasture board for most horses because it's the closest thing we can offer to their natural environment.  Pasturemates offer social interaction, ...