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Hard Spun (SRO) often played the role of runner-up during his career as a racehorse, but he leads the way in the breeding shed.  I was reminded of the Darley stallion's popularity recently while reading a TBH MarketWatch article on ''quality of mares bred.''  (This annual feature is an analytical review of the year's leading sires ...

  Gainesway Farm is the sponsor of a Thoroughbred adoption service on the Web site for The Horse (http://www.thehorse.com/), which, like The Blood-Horse is a Blood-Horse Publications product. As of Nov. 17, 11 horses have found new homes.   The service was the brainchild of Gainesway's Antony Beck, who was concerned heading into the ...

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  As we have seen during our heated debates regarding Horse of the Year and 3-year-old filly champion, the Eclipse Awards voting certainly brings out some strong opinions in all of us. On this blog especially, people voice their opinions loud and clear, and without much consensus. It's the same way in the Blood-Horse office, as even us ...

By Cangamble I've written about fixing horse racing many times before. Most notably, June 2007, I wrote a post called How To Save Horse Racing, and in February 2007 I wrote a piece called Thoughts On Track Takeout. In the last year, horse racing has gone even more downhill even more when it comes to the growth and the bettor. Most of this ...

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Back when the Keeneland November catalogs came out, I spent a lot of time perusing the offerings, and one that was offered on Day 11 -- today! -- caught my eye.  She seemed to be poorly placed, as far as I could tell -- her sale catalog page looked more impressive than many broodmares from a couple of books ahead of her. Here she is:  ...

 Jedi Code's return to the track was a bigger deal than I realized. Here is an edited press release from Churchill Downs on 11/11/08:When Janis Whitham’s Jedi Code broke his maiden at second asking in last-to-first fashion at Churchill Downs, the son of Empire Maker showed up on many Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) watch ...

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Question:  Alan, what do you think about Sons of AP Indy to daughters of Gone West?  Alan Porter's response:  To date the A.P. Indy (TrueNicks,SRO) /Gone West nick -- and the more general Seattle Slew/Gone West nick -- has not been a very successful one.   There is only one stakes winner on an A.P. Indy/Gone West ...