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It's sort of nice to have a quiet weekend of racing after the four big Kentucky Derby preps a week ago, and the Florida Derby on the horizon. We're just six weeks from the big day now, so it's a good time to catch your breath. The Lane's End Stakes from Turfway Park is the lone prep race on this week's calendar, and historically, it hasn't ...

England's Kentucky Derby Challenge, a nine-furlong test on the all-weather track at Kempton Park that guaranteed the winner a place in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), was run on Wednesday night. In a frantic finish, the winner was Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum's Mafaaz (GB), who held to by a neck from the ...

Last month I harped about Thoroughbred sales companies' failure to update auction catalogs for the 21st century. Well, it's obvious that one auction house was already hard at work bringing some technological modernization to its catalogs.  (Or, in this case, ''catalogues.''  G'day, mate, and all.) The Inglis Bloodstock online listings ...

Thoroughbred racing coverage takes another hit. As sport giant ESPN has decided to cut its coverage of the Kentucky Oaks (gr.I) on Friday May 1, with its primary three networks, and opted for Bravo.I am an optimist, and Churchill placed a positive spin on ESPN's decision. It is true that Bravo will bring in new eyes and primarily appeal to the ...

When possible, I plan for foals to be born in mid-March.  It's still fairly early in the season so they'll be good-sized yearlings, but by the middle of March we're usually out of the worst that Winter throws our way here in central Kentucky.  Until two years ago, I never gave too much thought to foaling complications.  I'd read ...

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  This Month's Guest: Larry Jones, trainer of Friesan Fire, Old Fashioned and Proud Spell Podcast Available - 3/27/2009 A native of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Larry Jones was a commercial farmer before becoming a Thoroughbred owner in 1980 and took out his trainer's license in 1982. He recorded his first stakes win with Capt. Bold at Ellis ...

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If manufacturers want to stay in business, they don’t pro-duce what they want; they produce what consumers want. Television networks try to act in exactly the same manner. Why else would ESPN need a bracketologist to tell us for weeks who might make the NCAA tournament—and who is or is not a “bubble” team—when we could just wait until the ...