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By Susan Dalebroux, Post Parade Texas voices ... ''We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand.'' -Sam Houston, before the Battle of San Jacinto   ''Our tote board is broken.'' -Sam Houston Race Park officials, canceling ...

If it were not for Graustark I would not be writing this blog. That’s because I would not be writing for the Blood-Horse. The reason I would not be writing for the Blood-Horse is because I would not have worked for the Daily Racing Form for 29 years or written for the Thoroughbred Times for five years or the Thoroughbred Record on and off for many ...

If you're in the Thoroughbred business, it's tough to watch what's happening at Keeneland. The auction's gross revenue has plunged more than 40% from a year ago, and when you walk around the sale pavilion, the crowd - if you can call it that - is very sparse. Mares are bringing less than the stud fees cost to produce the foals they are carrying; ...

Although we all have different opinions on it, I think we can all agree that we've beaten Horse of the Year debate to death. Let's move on to another topic; one that that I'm sure we also won't all agree on, but is an interesting debate nonetheless: 3-year-old female of the year. This should be one of the closest Eclipse Award votes of the year, ...

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The ceiling on Thoroughbred stud fees in the U.S. has fallen.  We saw broad cuts last year, and it's shaping up to be an across-the-board slashing as we approach the 2009 breeding season.  But have the reductions been too modest? Take a look at the Breeding News section of BloodHorse.com and almost every headline about stud fees being ...

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 ...