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  Looking back at 2008, here are the things I'll remember most about the year in Thoroughbred auctions:   1. The Big Crash. Just about everybody expected a decline in business. After all, the market was due for a correction and there had been complaints for years that there were just too many sale horses. But few people predicted an ...

Courtesy of Kevin Martin, Colin's Ghost Fall racing for 2008 was missing what historically had been one of the marquee races for 2-year-olds. For only the fourth time since 1921, Maryland went without the Laurel Futurity. The list of past winners includes a collection of great champions: Equipoise, Bimelech, Top Flight, Count Fleet, ...

A foal of 1980 by Icecapade, out of Bushel-n-Peck, Wild Again arrived at Three Chimneys in December of 1991 as part of the dissolution of Calumet Farm.  At that point, he had three crops of racing age.  Throughout his career he commanded billing as a leading general sire, juvenile sire, and broodmare sire.  He has sired eight ...

Question from Tony: I realize that TrueNicks is primarily a tool for breeders but does your group envision developing any tools for handicappers as way to measure the potential of lightly raced horses?  Byron's reply:  Tony, thanks for the email. The short answer is ''yes,'' the long answer is that it is going to take time to develop ...

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So you may be asking why embeded this video of a crazy guy walking a tight rope, or ''slacklining'' as we call it in climbing.It is pretty simple...we're hurting as an industry. We are bruised and have been roughed up a bit with the economy. Everyone, and especially the small farms, are walking a tight rope. A co-worker suggested the ...

Technically, this blog is still called Breeders' Cup Chat, with Triple Crown Talk not officially returning until the start of the New Year. But in my mind it is never too early to start talking about the Kentucky Derby, especially after the performance we saw from Old Fashioned last weekend in the Remsen. If you missed it or haven't gotten around ...

By Ted Grevelis Who? EXACTLY! This is a story about a horse whose retirement won't be generating any headlines, just a  tough, hard knocking type that races everyday across North America with little fanfare but carries on his back the hopes and dreams of small time owners. Trato was bred in California by Megali Ventures LLC and ...

 Lexington, Ky. - The Blood-Horse, the nation's oldest continually-published weekly news magazine for Thoroughbred racing and breeding, will reduce its print advertising rates by 5 percent effective January 2009. The move comes in an effort to help ease the current operating burden faced by many of the country's Thoroughbred horse farms ...