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Courtesy of Michael Nikolic As a rule, I never get lost. If I did, which is patently absurd given the aforementioned rule, I certainly would never stop and ask for directions; some might characterize my behavior in such situations as willfully obtuse. They are obviously out of touch with reality. I find, within the ranks of horse ...

The breeding stock sales in late 2008 and early 2009 are the end of an era for one of North America's top sires.  This marks the final sales season when Storm Cat (SRO) will be represented as a covering sire. Following a breeding season in which he displayed declining fertility, Overbrook Farm announced that Storm Cat would be pensioned ...

They say actions speak louder than words. The public is taking action by wagering less on horse racing. And those actions are speaking loudly.Data released for the third quarter of 2008 reveals that handle in the United States and Canada dropped sharply, 9.85%, during July, August, and September, and for the calendar year, is off 5.75% compared ...

With the unfortunate retirement of Big Brown, the Breeders’ Cup pre-entries, a weekly column to write, and preparation for the Breeders' Cup Classic occupying most of my time this week, I thought, because of the interest shown in Invasor on my last blog and in several recent e-mails, I would reprint two stories (a commentary and parts of my ...

Sometimes the racing gods smile on you after the sale gods don't. So, it's not always bad news when a consignor buys back a horse - at least in the long run. Jane Schosberg enjoyed a delayed return on her investment Oct. 12 when Sunshine for Life, trained by her son, Richard, defeated Criticism by a half-length in the Athenia Handicap (gr. IIIT) ...

We're less than three weeks away from Kentucky's big November breeding stock sales. I've narrowed my own list down to eight mares that I'll bid on -- and if the bloodstock market tanks as much as the yearling sales did, I might have a chance at one or two of them! Today, I've chosen a couple of broodmare offerings with connections to ...

  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 ...