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  The use of steroids and medication in horse racing is one of the biggest problems the industry is facing right now. Based on the congressional hearings last month in Washington D.C., there are likley to be major rule changes in the near future. With so many different steroids and medications being duscussed recently - mostly because ...

Courtesy of Becky Johnston The Racing Post reported today that plans were underway by Racing UK in connection with their consultants, to implant a ten-race championship series call the Sovereign Series.  Beginning in 2010, the races which will culminate in a £2 million prize payoff to be split between the top three point finishers at the end ...

[image url=''http://www.bloodhorse.com/talkinhorses/images/mwall_large.jpg'']Maryjean Wall[/image] Maryjean Wall retired in June after 35 years as racing writer for the Lexington Herald-Leader. She voluntarily took a corporate buyout. On her final day of writing for the newspaper, she was at Belmont Park covering the Belmont Stakes and Big ...

Courtesy of Becky Johnston Sweet MusicWith the mid-week lull upon us and all the disqualification controversy following Proud Spell's demotion from second in the Grade 1 Mother Goose Stakes on Saturday, I can't help but think about the overshadowed winner.  She seems to have gotten lost with the rough riding that took place behind ...

It's no secret that Giant's Cauesway is having another very good season. Currently sitting third on the 2008 sires' list, he has been represented by by 10 stakes winners this year, nine of them graded. He added a new grade I winner at the weekend when his son Frost Giant won the Suburban Handicap in a gritty style very reminiscent of his ...

If there is anyone who has worried about the health of our industry more than I have the past 20 years, I feel sorry for that person. Always, it seems, there is bad news: declining attendance, declining handle, offshore wagering issues, drug positives, reduced field size, aging fan base, high-profile breakdowns, diminished soundness of the ...

What better way to relieve the pressure of racing in the 21st century than to go back and celebrate the 40th anniversary of one of the greatest races I have ever witnessed, a race the likes of which we will never see again.Although the Suburban Handicap was uncharacteristically run on June 28 this year, the real anniversary of the one-time second ...

Mares by War Admiral out of Blue Larkspur daughters... crossed with a Domino-line sire... the nick of the century? Bluegrass by Borden Deal is fiction, but the novel approaches breeding -- and training and racing, for that matter -- with a reality rarely seen outside of weightier works. I re-read the book over the weekend (I first found it during ...

At the tender age of 85, after nearly three decades in the business of owning and running horses, Harry Aleo finally felt the love of the racing gods.They delivered unto him the horse that would fulfill his wish to travel his beloved United States of America and run that horse in top stakes races, earning cheers of fans from coast to coast. Decked ...

Courtesy of Becky Johnston In days gone by, the Breeders' Cup Classic would be so laden with talented horses that I would anticipate the running over and over in my mind, days or even weeks before the gates ever opened.  Looking at what we might see this year, I may find myself watching the Alabama-Tennessee game instead.  ...