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Looking for some festivities for Halloween? Then you need to look at the Meadowlands. Last year I could not believe they had festive races, and a stakes at that, for Halloween. The most amazing, for me, was watching The Grey Ghost. I was working nights at that time and was able to pause and enjoy this beautiful race. The night was slightly ...

By Frank Vespe When Frankie Dettori flyingly dismounted from Raven's Pass last Saturday, it marked, in a sense, the end of a decade-long journey for the colorful jockey.  It also marked, from my perspective, another link in the chain of interconnectedness that is one of racing's signal charms. Ten years ago, Dettori had the mount ...

Since the launch of TrueNicks less than a year ago, we've been delighted with the reception from both breeders and stallion farms. However, with the season for mating plans about to get into full swing, farms subscribing to the stallion service are coming in thick and fast. This week, TrueNicks hit a milestone when the the number of subscribing ...

Byron and I -- along with the rest of the team at TrueNicks and with the help of The Blood-Horse MarketWatch -- combed through the data and developed a special report titled Top 10 Emerging Thoroughbred Broodmare Sires at the Keeneland November Sale. It was a very interesting white paper to develop -- and there are some good opportunities ...

Whether you use ''damsire'' or ''broodmare sire'' or ''maternal grandsire'' or ''family sire'' -- and each term holds shades of meaning -- the goal of bloodstock buyers is to find mares by stallions that shine in this role.  We all can name stallions whose names we love to see in that spot on a five-cross pedigree.  Secretariat, Deputy ...

Now that the Breeders' Cup is in our rearview mirror and it feels as though racing comes to a screeching halt for the rest of season, there is one topic that seems to be on everyone's mind: Horse of the Year. Curlin vs. Zenyatta. Who will it be? It's been less than a week since the Breeders' Cup ended and I've already been asked the same ...

So, will it be Curlin or Zenyatta for Horse of the Year? That is the question everyone – fans, writers, horsemen – either seem to be asking or are adamant about one way or the other. Obviously, a case can be made for either one.But I have to admit I am flabbergasted that not a single person I’m aware of has even thrown Big Brown into the mix. Now ...

By Ted Grevelis (Owning Racehorses)The very first ownership group I was a part of was right here in Minnesota.  Managed by chart caller and bloodstock agent David M Miller we ran under the banner of Star of the North Racing.  Siblings Somerset Sam and Somerset Wish (Gazebo- Somerset Blum) were purchased from breeder Jack Welch in the ...

Feedback from TrueNicks users and other readers of this blog comes in various formats -- some by email, some by comments to our article posts. Most are printable, a few are not. An email just arrived from a subscriber to both TrueNicks and a rival service. We figured that while the comment was not meant to be complimentary, we would publish it and ...

By Steve Zorn  Well, it took a while, but there are more and more signs that horse racing isn't being spared the ills that are affecting the rest of the economy. There are three ways of measuring how well racing is doing, depending on what your economic interest is.  If you're a commercial breeder, what you care most about is ...