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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 ...

[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/hminor_large.jpg'' alt=''Halsey Minor'' ]Halsey Minor[/image] Halsey Minor is the founder of CNET, which became the first Web-content company to go public, just four years after its founding in 1992. At CNET—which CBS recently purchased for $1.8 billion—Minor started several initiatives that ...

We happened to be studying a Saint Ballado mare the other day for a client, and noticed that to date, the only two graded stakes winners out of mares by that stallion are Saint Afleet (TrueNicks A), who took the Palos Verdes Handicap (gr. II) and this year's Futurity (gr. II) winner, Charitable Man (TrueNicks B). The speedy Saint Afleet is a son ...

Relive the last 24 years of the Breeders' Cup Sprint with thrilling photographs and memorable video replays.       Slideshow: Breeders' Cup Sprint 1984 - 2007 Breeders' Cup Sprint Videos: 2007 - Midnight Lute wins the Breeders' Cup Sprint at Monmouth Park on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007.    2006 - Thor's Echo ...

Let's try and have a good debate, at least one better than the one tonight.  Every sport has image problems.  The NBA had the Jailblazers, the NFL still has the Bengals, MLB battles drugs, and the NHL is well, if you've heard of it, it's the hockey league.  Many in our industry point to the NHL as another sport going ...

It's not every day that the oppotunity arises to purchase a daughter of the incomparable Personal Ensign.  At the Keeneland November sale, though, it happens twice. Personal Ensign (pedigree) is one of the rare Thoroughbreds about whom the mantle of greatness is unarguable.  Her perfect racing career (13-for-13 on the track, including ...