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Imagine that you are a patient in a hospital, a prominent Thoroughbred owner and breeder said. The doctor enters the room, takes a vial out of his black bag, and gives you a shot. He then produces a couple of pills, which you take orally. Of course, it doesn’t happen that way anymore. Patients wear identification bracelets that are scanned any ...

I enjoyed a nice phone chat late last week with Chris Blake of Ascot Stud in Ontario, Canada.  I had called him to discuss the farm's unusual incentive plan for breeders, as part of my research for an upcoming issue of MarketWatch. He chatted with me for several minutes about the program, which actually pays the owners of ''solid, ...

Because of the lack of 3-year-old races this week, we’re going into full detail on Dunkirk’s race. Another reason we’re giving it a good deal of space is the big buzz it created. The question is, was it warranted? Read the entire column here. Watch the latest edition of ''And They're Off'' with Steve and Lenny Shulman. [brightcove ...

He ranks fourth all-time in wins and tenth in money earned, yet when the sport's most prominent and popular trainers are mentioned Jerry Hollendorfer is rarely the first name mentioned. Maybe that's because until recently he has been tucked up in Northern California, or perhaps it's the fact that he has never had that big Triple Crown horse. ...

By Michael Nikolic, Gathering the Wind A guy I know - I'll call him Juan, since that is what reads on his birth certificate - agreed to come with me to Gulfstream today. Juan and I grew up together. His mother was our boy scout, pack person, thing; my dad was an assistant coach on our little league baseball team. We played varsity soccer ...

Spring seems to have come early for Three Chimneys Farm sire War Chant (TrueNicks,SRO) . On February 7, his very speedy son Chamberlain Bridge took the 5 1/2-furlong Colonel Power Stakes on turf at Fair Grounds by three lengths in a time less than half a second outside the course-record. Out of the Trempolino mare She's Got Class (a ...

TrueNicks is pleased to announce the enrollment of its first two stallions standing in Washington State. Chumaree and Prospected both stand at Homer Thoroughbreds in Burbank, Wa. Chumaree (TrueNicks,SRO) sold for $450,000 as a weanling at the Keeneland November sale. Out of a mare by Secretariat, he is a son of Hennessy, already the sire of ...

TrueNicks is pleased to welcome eight stallions standing at Louisiana's Clear Creek Stud, home to two of the top five Louisiana stallions in 2008, Ide and Afternoon Deelites. Ide (TrueNicks,SRO), a son of Forty Niner, is the sire of 30 stakes horses and was represented by five stakes winners in 2008 alone. Dual grade I winner Afternoon ...

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NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, February 20, 2009 Contact: Robert Bolson, Director of Corporate Marketing Blood-Horse Publications (859) 276-6809; rbolson@bloodhorse.com     BLOODHORSE.COM'S ''TALKIN' HORSES'' NEXT GUEST: MARK ...