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Courtesy of Becky Johnston The 72nd Sanita Anita Handicap will be run Saturday.   There are four South American and three European bred runners in the field of fourteen.  (Matto Mondo CHI, Heroi Do Bafra BRZ, Magnum ARG, Einstein BRZ, Dansant GB, Zambezi Sun GB, Champs Elysees GB) The 1985 running of the Santa Anita Handicap ...

Two stallions that were in our ''search for value,'' Dixie Union (TrueNicks,SRO) and Mizzen Mast (TrueNicks,SRO), were represented by recent stakes winners. Dixie Union's daughter Justwhistledixie -- rated A++ by TrueNicks -- gained a first graded win in the Davona Dale Stakes (gr. II), with daughters of other ''seach for value'' sires ...

A little while ago we gave a call to Even the Score (TrueNicks,SRO) , who stands this year for $7,500 at Millennium Farms in Kentucky. His first crop are 3-year-olds, and he was represented by a smart winner recently when his son Scorewithcater captured the $100,000 Borderland Derby. Rated an encouraging B+ by TrueNicks before his stakes ...

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Saturday's Gotham is the first chance for 3-year-olds on the Derby trail to earn graded stakes money in New York. For that reason, we usually get our first real look at promising horses that are based in the Northeast and a new Triple Crown prospect usually emerges. This year's race came up a strong. A field of nine was entered and at least four ...

NEWS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, March 5, 2009Contact: Robert Bolson, Director of Corporate MarketingBlood-Horse Publications(859) 276-6809; rbolson@BloodHorse.com New Equine Fact Sheets Available From TheHorse.comLexington, Ky. -- TheHorse.com launched the first in a series of Fact Sheets on Jan. 13 to widespread acclaim. This week we ...

I don't like to pick one of the favorites for the Kentucky Derby.  I prefer to hone in on a well-bred longshot, and then to have my hopes and dreams dashed as my picks straggle in fourth or fifth... or nineteenth. But in recent years, I've had a feeling about a few horses. And I've almost felt guilty, because they were the ...

With the first Northern Hemisphere 2-year-old races set to get underway shortly, we thought that this year we would do something that allowed us to follow TrueNicks as a predictor of racetrack success. We debated a couple of ways we could do this, with the primary goals of offering a statistically sound study and one that is trackable in ...

NEWS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, March 4, 2009Contact: Robert Bolson, Director of Corporate MarketingBlood-Horse Publications(859) 276-6809; rbolson@bloodhorse.comJASON SHANDLER'S POPULAR BLOG, ''TRIPLE CROWN TALK''  ON BLOODHORSE.COM GOES LIVE THIS SATURDAY!Racing enthusiasts are invited to preview the all-important prep race, the ...