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Disaster. Brutal. Blood bath. Just a few of the many descriptive words being used by breeders to describe the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, which at this writing still had a week to run.In light of the recessive global economy, everyone thought the sale, the largest of its kind in the world, would be down. But a drop of 10-20% was ...

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When he stepped off that trailer, the sky filled with electricity and I was shocked. I had read all the stories, watched all the videos of him and some of his progeny, and heard the numerous stories of this warrior, but nothing really prepared me for the real deal. Alysheba strutted down the path, walked into the ring and had ''it'' still, as some ...

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By Teresa Genaro of Brooklyn BackstretchI'm pretty sure that my local card store has already put out their Christmas cards, and while overall I am about as near to thinking about Christmas as I am to thinking about retirement (and that would be not nearly near enough), a recent e-mail from the Belmont Child Care Association with news about ...

Jedi Code returns to the track for the first time since his time off the track! Morning line 3/1It is also Calvin Borel's birthday today, happy birthday Calvin, who is going to ride Jedi Code Sunday and has in the past. Jedi Code is entered to run on November 9, 2008 at CHURCHILL DOWNS.Your comments for this horse were: Star Wars, Empire Maker - ...

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by Barry Roos When Balanced Attack won the feature at Laurel yesterday, it marked the 50th win for our partnership G-Biscuit Stable LLC. For the year we have won 18 races in 52 starts (35%) and have been in the money 69%. An hour later we grabbed our 51st win for the year at Hawthorne and that win got our lifetime win percentage to an amazing 25% ...

I'm not going to speculate whether we'll see more of Curlin (pedigree) on the track this year or next -- it would be fantastic for horse racing as a sport, but probably more than we can expect.  Stonestreet Stables' Jess Jackson has already proven to be a true sportsman by bringing Curlin back as a 4-year-old and putting him in ...

The Europeans whipped our butts in the Breeders’ Cup and are superior to American horses:Winning 5 of 14 races does not constitute a butt-whipping. Granted, winning five of the 10 races in which they competed was impressive, but still not exactly a butt-whipping. Why shouldn’t the European horses win half their races? Isn’t that was international ...