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  With less than two weeks to go until the World Championships, now is a good time to look at some of the top contenders in each division. Obviously, there will be plenty of surprises when the pre-entries come out Thursday, so this is just a rough draft, if you will. Right now, the biggest question marks are which Europeans will ...

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By Valerie Grash As a fan, call me underwhelmed. The Breeders’ Cup returns to Churchill Downs in 2010 (but perhaps only if the state of Kentucky can be extorted into extending a pari-mutuel tax exemption), and, once again, horse racing has missed the boat in terms of updating what has become, unfortunately, “the” defining event of America’s ...

[image url="http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/pland_large.jpg" alt="Peter Land" ]Peter Land[/image] Peter Land is Chief Marketing Officer of Breeders' Cup Limited. Land is responsible for the integrated marketing of the Breeders' Cup World Championships, the Breeders' Cup Challenge, Breeders' Cup Stakes program and ...

Sightseeing (TrueNicks,SRO is the newest stallion at Nathan Fox's Richland Hills Farm and is also the latest addition to the TrueNicks roster. By the A.P. Indy (TrueNicks,SRO) stallion Pulpit, Sightseeing took the 2007 Peter Pan Stakes (gr. II) and placed in four other graded events in his three years on the track.Those include the grade I ...

On Thursday, the Breeders' Cup Legends Tour, featuring Hall of Fame jockeys Pat Day, Laffit Pincay Jr., and Jorge Velasquez (who filled in for Angel Cordero Jr.), made their way to Keeneland. If you were unaware, the jockeys are in the midst of multi-city tour to promote the Breeders' Cup, which celebrates its 25th anniversary at Santa Anita Park ...

Before we begin, I wanted to let you know that we've got a new poll up and running:  Time to Buy a Broodmare?  The Thoroughbred breeding industry is in flux -- please take 30 seconds to have your vote counted. .......... And now, back to our regularly-scheduled event.  With the long weekend coming up, I thought I'd shake up ...

Relive Cigar's career with our special slideshow and some of his best moments in horse racing.        Slideshow: Cigar Tribute Cigar Videos:Cigar at the Kentucky Horse Park, Fall 2008. Watch Video A few of Cigar's greatest moments.    1995 Breeders' Cup Classic - Cigar wins the 1995 Breeders' ...

With Dreaming of Anna being retired, I thought she deserved something special. I am a big fan of her's but my co-worker Amidala is quite possibly her number one fan. So I asked Amidala to write a guest blog on Dreaming of Anna and the following is that reflection. Enjoy! --- People fall in love with horses for a variety of reasons. Sometimes ...