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Sgt. Jeff Cohen, a retired New York City police officer who recently began a second career as a postal delivery employee, is able to come to Saratoga Race Course only once or twice a week.  Often, he brings his young son Artie along, and Artie, an admirably polite red-haired lad, spends the day eating popcorn and ice cream while his father ...

Stella Thayer didn’t make it to the post-race dancefest at Siro’s beer tent.  She probably had to rush home to squeeze into her blue jeans for the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame’s “Ride the (mechanical) Bull” party. Nevertheless, the gathering at Siro’s was wall-to-wall.  The three-day fly-mating season was over, and the ...

Carol Homersham and Joan Proctor of Barrie, Ontario were the most stunning women at breakfast in their custom-made hats.  It was Homersham’s first visit to a racetrack, but she looked like a Kentucky Oaks fashionista in her black mesh chapeau with a big bow.  Homersham’s hat went in different directions; its flat oval top slanted left ...

  With all the Big Brown and Curlin hoopla over the past week or so, we've gotten away from the Breeders' Cup Challenge. Let's get back into now, and what better time to do it then on one of my favorite days - the International Festival of Racing. The Beverly D. and the Arlington Million are ''Win and You're In'' events, and both look like ...

Arlington MillionGrade: I Purse: $1 million Distance: 10 Furlongs (T)  Age: 3-Year-Olds & Up  Track: Arlington Park TV: Saturday, August 9, 2008 @ 4:30 PM ETThis race is just bursting at the seams with talent. This race is going to be amazing to watch and YOU MUST watch this race. Two foreign trained horses are going to be running in ...

New York-based sire Western Expression was represented by his first stakes winner when his daughter, I Lost My Choo, took the Virginia Oaks (gr. III) at Colonial Downs. Rated A++ by TrueNicks, I Lost My Choo has a very unusual pedigree pattern. Firstly, she is inbred to Majestic Prince, and in both instances combined with Buckpasser (Western ...

[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/jharper_large.jpg'']Joe Harper[/image] Joe Harper took over the management of the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in 1978. During this period Harper has overseen Del Mar's emergence as one of the nation's top racetracks for daily average handle and attendance. He was also instrumental in overseeing ...

Give Sonny Taylor a minute to say something, and an afternoon will pass by before he comes up for air.  Yesterday, the 71-year-old African-American placing judge, who is a friend to just about everyone, came down from the track’s upper echelons to mingle with the minions on the Turf Terrace. Among the luncheon munchers, Taylor told endless ...

I don’t know how I feel anymore. I hate to become too wrapped up in all this Curlin vs. Big Brown banter and then have it all become moot when they go their separate ways. If it turns out to be nothing but idle chatter, then what good did it do other than provide us with amusement or indignation, depending on how you reacted to it?There was Rick ...

The 4-year-old Kingmambo colt Archipenko (pedigree) makes a great case for those breeders who believe an older mare can still produce a quality foal. Bound, a 1984 daughter of Nijinski II and the incomparable mare Special, was a fine runner -- a stakes winner and multiple graded stakes-placed earner of over $300,000 -- and undeniably earned her ...