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  • Derby Dozen - February 17, 2014 - Presented by Shadwell Farm

    1 Top Billing Shug McGaughey Curlin—Parade Queen, by A.P. Indy He’s going to get quite a test for his stakes debut in the Fountain of Youth. Not only does he have to contend with a 13-horse field, he drew post 12, so his best case scenario is to take way back, drop in, and hope he can make his way through or around all those horses. He tuned ...
    Posted to Steve Haskin's Derby Dozen (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 02-18-2014

  • Little Current and the Year After Big Red

    Pity any 3-year-old that had the misfortune to come along the year after Secretariat. Talk about a tough act to follow. Well, it could have been worse. At least 1974 3-year-old champion Little Current didn’t have the bad luck to come along the same year as Secretariat, as did the unfortunate Sham. What Little Current did manage to do was ...
    Posted to Hangin' With Haskin (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 02-07-2014

  • Chasing Records - By Eric Mitchell

    At the time the question seemed so simple. Who is the fastest Thoroughbred in the world at 1,600 meters? The question surfaced a couple of weeks ago after the brilliant Brazilian 3-year-old colt Bal a Bali won the Grande Premio Estado do Rio de Janeiro Stakes (Brz-I) in 1:31.36. Publicity after the race touted the colt’s time as just shy of the ...
    Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 01-28-2014

  • Stress on the Derby Trail

    We’ve already seen some stress and low tolerance building in the camp of one of the leading Kentucky Derby hopefuls. Following the Seahawks – Forty Niners game, we saw what can happen when the media probes a star player at a time when his emotions are still running high and the adrenaline is still flowing. There is no down time to gather ...
    Posted to Hangin' With Haskin (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 01-23-2014

  • 1/11/2014 Northeast/Mid-Atlantic: Family Farming

    Saratoga Stud bolstered by O'Cains and fifth-generation farmer Rick Burke. by Phil Janack Not 15 minutes from the main gate at Saratoga Race Course, along a paved, two-lane road that winds through the upstate New York countryside and bears his family's name, sits Rick Burke's Irish Hill Century Farm.  Download this week's ...
    Posted to The Blood-Horse Regionals (FileGallery) by Blood-Horse Staff on 01-22-2014

  • 1/11/2014 West Coast: Roaring Back

    Smiling Tiger keys California upswing at Premier Thoroughbreds by Jack Shinar "Moneyball," The National best-selling book and successful 2011 movie, showed it was possible for the low-budget Oakland Athletics to field a perennial playoff-caliber Major League Baseball team.  Download this week's regional section to continue ...
    Posted to The Blood-Horse Regionals (FileGallery) by Blood-Horse Staff on 01-22-2014

  • Give That Owner a Medal - By Eric Mitchell

    If you were on the fence about owning a Thoroughbred racehorse and watched this year’s Eclipse Awards ceremony at Gulfstream Park, it’s likely you began researching trainers the following morning. The thrill of ownership and the allure of the sport could not have been packaged better. Spunky octogenarian Morton Fink received his second golden ...
    Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 01-22-2014

  • Tapit and the Derby Trail

    It seems as if the name Tapit is everywhere these days, especially on the Derby trail, where promising 3-year-olds such as Coup de Grace, Constitution, Giancarlo, Hartford, Harpoon, Matterhorn, Tap it Rich. Tapiture, Tonalist and others have already graced the winner’s circle, the majority of them in 2014. There is no doubt that Tapit is one ...
    Posted to Hangin' With Haskin (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 01-21-2014

  • Gourmet Dinner, Macho Man Reunion

    The lives of horses, like humans, can easily be dictated by the paths chosen for them. It is called destiny or fate, and who knows how history might be changed had certain events not taken place. We’re all aware of the fairy tale path that has led Mucho Macho Man to fame and fortune, from his own story to the stories of Kathy Ritvo, Gary ...
    Posted to Hangin' With Haskin (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 01-16-2014

  • 1/4/2014 Midwest/Canada: The Doctor Is In

    Dr. George Sikora builds Mapleton Farm in Buckeye State by Steve Haskin Although Thoroughbred Racing has been reduced to a whisper around the country, the sport is actually causing quite a commotion in--of all places--Ohio.  That's right, Ohio, with Thistledown's Racino humming from 1,100 video lottery terminals and the complete ...
    Posted to The Blood-Horse Regionals (FileGallery) by Blood-Horse Staff on 01-14-2014
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