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The Keeneland November sale will have a close link to the tragic filly Eight Belles (pedigree) as her dam is being offered, carrying a full sibling to the runner-up in this year's Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I).  (Full story here.) Some numbers on this newsworthy Keeneland November ...

Courtesy of Patrick Patten I play the lotto not because it is the worst odds imaginable, not because I don't realize it's a ''stupid'' tax, but it allows me to write these dreams out like I really have a chance.  TVG is up for sale, and the NTRA has always been a fan of the channel.  So why not buy it outright, and do ...

We're back in Ocala for today's broodmare pedigree review pick.  Lisa the Great is one of the first hips through the ring during the Consignor Preferred listings (Day 1) part of the sale. Some stats on this broodmare: Hip #3 (catalog page, pedigree), a 6-year-old mare named Lisa the Great, sells Mon., Oct. 6, ...

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We're coming into the home stretch...just three weeks until the Breeders' Cup. I don't know about any of you, but it looks to me like we're going to have some of the most competitive fields in recent memory. All of the races will be anticipated with great excitement, but I am especially looking forward to the Juvenile Fillies, Filly ...

Courtesy of Teresa Genaro The history of racing in this country reveals a curiously ambivalent attitude towards its female equine athletes.  The Old Gray (trotting) Mare may have been racing's first equine star, and from racing's beginnings in this country, colts and fillies regularly raced against each other.  Ruthless won the ...

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Storm Cat's well-bred son Bernstein made a very good start to his career. From a first crop sired when he stood at Doug Arnold's Buckpond Farm, Bernstein was represented by just 37 foals, of which 32 have started and 26 have won. Five of these captured stakes events, their number being headed by the Astarita Stakes (gr. III) victress Toll Taker; ...

For today's Thoroughbred broodmare sales catalog offering, let's travel about 750 miles down I-75 South from Lexington's Keeneland sales pavilion to the Ocala Breeders' Sales complex in Ocala.  Better remind me to stop though -- I'm liable to want to make it an even 1,000 miles and wind up on the Gulf Coast for a bit of beach time. OBS is ...

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