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The voting for the 2008 Eclipse Awards began last week and writers have until Jan. 5th to cast their ballots. The awards will be presented in Miami on Jan. 26th. During the past few days I have completed my homework and made up my mind on nearly all of the divisions. As we have chatted about previously, Horse of the Year, Sprint and 3-year-old ...

By Gene Kershner, EquiSpace It's puzzling to me. Back in September, Gathering the Wind had an excellent post titled with another word I had to look up (stochastics) regarding horse racing stewards and how they are simply out of the public eye. This being unlike the big four, wherein the referees or umpires must make a call in plain view ...

  ''We have a crisis in Thoroughbred racing.''  When Scott Palmer VMD says that, it's worth paying attention.  Palmer is a past president of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) and head of the AAEP Racing Task Force. Kim Brown, editor-in-chief of The Horse:  Your Guide to Equine Health ...

It will be a challenging year in the Thoroughbred marketplace in 2009. While the trend of cutting stallion fees that developed this fall is good news, sellers of young horses won't be benefiting from the reductions in the short term. Consignors of weanlings and yearlings face the daunting prospect of trying to make money with horses that were ...

A week or so ago we had an interesting post on this site from Scot Gillies in regards to a ''dream mating'' for your favorite mare. There was a lot of ideas, some of them very well reasoned, from a number of readers with some suggestions for various mares to visit various stallions. In some type of continuation from that post, I read ...

The first Breeders’ Cup was held at Hollywood Park Nov. 10, 1984. But in January of that year, long before the first event day, nominators began receiving checks from another of the fledgling organization’s programs, the $10-million Premium Awards.Calder Race Course was the first track to run a stakes enriched with supplemental monies from the ...

We occasionally discuss ''rare'' sire lines in this space, and later this week we're going to take a look at the remaining Teddy line.  While I'm more of a ''female family'' advocate in most breeding considerations, I also appreciate the Y-chromosome diversity that still exists within the Thoroughbred breed.  By request, here's ...

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Because our first Cigar experience brought numerous and passionate comments, we’re going to light up another one.To fully appreciate the fire that burned inside Cigar, we have to go back to when he was a mischievous foal at Country Life Farm in Maryland, where his dam, Solar Slew, had been sent to be bred to Corridor Key. It was there that the ...

''The Blood-Horse'' is an unusual appellation. Non-horseracing types raise an eyebrow when hearing the name for the first time, and even some who make Thoroughbreds their life's work aren't entirely sure why the magazine (and the publisher) is named that.  Back in 1916, we were published as The Thoroughbred Horse, the newsletter of the ...