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  On Wednesday it was announced that one of the nation's favorite horses, Lava Man, would be retired due to ankle problems, which were discovered shortly after he finished sixth in the July 20 Eddie Read Handicap at Del Mar. The 7-year-old Slew City Slew gelding was 17-8-5 from 46 starts and earned $5,268,706 in his remarkable career. ...

Courtesy of Becky Johnston Monmouth Park’s crown jewel, the one million dollar Haskell Invitational Stakes will hold it’s renewal Sunday.  Big Brown hopes to regain his Derby winning form, but this field will be hard-pressed to put on a show like the one we saw in 1987.Each year when the Haskell is run, it is impossible for me not to reach ...

It was quite a weekend for the Danzig. First of all, Danzig himself was represented by 200th stakes winner when Olympic captured the Mataji Stakes at Calder. And a review of stakes activity around the world shows that an awful lot of Danzig-line horses were keen to get in on the act, with no less than 15 other Danzig-line horses winning black type ...

Some time ago on this blog we noted that second-year sire Macho Uno (TrueNicks, SRO) was one to watch. The champion 2-year-old of his crop and half-brother to Awesome Again was represented by Arlington-Washington Futurity (gr. III) and Breeders' Futuirty (gr. I) victor Wicked Style, and two-time stakes winning filly Swifty Victress, with his first ...

The Reading Room was every bit the Pump Room when Liz Tippett used to drive to the Union Avenue clubhouse for lunch in “The Outlaw,” her lavish, black and yellow, horse-drawn road coach.  It isn’t that any longer.Yet, Cot Campbell has enough of old-school savoir faire to make even a catered afternoon one of the classiest Saratoga ...

Storm Cat's five-year reign as the leading sire of sale yearlings ended in 2006, when he dropped to second on the list with an average price for his progeny of $1,255,038. In 2007, he ranked third, when the average dropped to $544,038, suggesting buyer enthusiasm for his offspring was waning. But prices for Storm Cat's yearlings could rise again ...

It is not often that we have a posting on this site with a history lesson included but it seems in order after the 2-year-old filly African Skies (TrueNicks A) impressively won the Princess Margaret Stakes (gr. III) at Ascot on the weekend. African Skies is a daughter of the Ashford Stud stallion Johannesburg and is out of the Woodman mare Rababah ...

We posted a story over the weekend regarding the outstanding matriarch Best in Show and it happened to be the weekend that another great mare in Lassie Dear stepped up and showed her wares! The ''Lassie Dear Weekend'' started when Susan Magnier and Michael Tabor's Duke of Marmalade (Ire) (TrueNicks A+) made it four group Is in a row in Ascot's ...

A horse that not only broke his maiden, but is also a movie starrrrr? This just needed to be posted, due to the novelty factor. The segment duration is from :22 seconds to 1:10 minutes. That is all you need to see.