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With all the scratches in the Keeneland April 2yo sale, the sessions are so short that; They could have halted all selling during ''American Idol'' the first night and still have been done by 10 p.m. You don't need a bathroom break, but if you did, you'd miss half the night's horses. The droning of the auctioneers doesn't have time to hypnotize ...

Breeding and raising Thoroughbreds requires such a large financial outlay that the industry has focused on ways to earn a quick return on investment - resulting in March 2-year-old races at some tracks, and bullet works at spring sales for the juveniles, many of which haven't yet reached their actual second birthday. Well, why stop there?  ...

Former European champion 2-year-old and Darley-owned sire Xaar (GB) was a stallion that looked to have it all - a rudely talented racehorse that boasted a superb pedigree being by the brilliant Zafonic from the Best in Show family. Despite outstanding credentials and opportunity to match, Xaar failed to reproduce a horse close to his own ability ...

My posse and I went out to Keeneland to watch the under tack show for the 2008 April 2-year-olds-in-training sale.  The sun was shining bright on my old Kentucky home, and the track had a slight breeze with the sounds of clapping thunder from hooves of the horses. The horses were anxious to get moving as they approached the stretch, rounding ...

Stepping down from his Windfields jet, E.P. Taylor bounded across the tarmac into the terminal building, where he pulled up short in front of a vending machine.�Help me, Joe. I don�t have any U.S. change.�As I sorted through my change for quarters, the Canadian tycoon described by biographer Peter Newman as �the ultimate personification of the ...

While the classic trial round has nearly been completed in the U.S., in Europe it is only just under way. Sunday saw the first of the English and Irish classic trials, the Leopardstown Two Thousand Guineas and One Thousand Guineas trials (both Ire-III). Both events fell to horses sired by sons of Danehill, whose influence in Europe threatens to ...

Alice Chandler has no intention of shooting craps in a fancy, glitzy casino. Wouldn’t be the same. Now 82, she harkens back to her youth when she would try to make her point in a tack room with the men on her dad’s Beaumont Farm. She loves recalling how at the tender age of 10, she won $600 and Triple Crown-winning jockey Smokey Saunders’ car. ...

The mega-nick of A.P. Indy over Mr Prospector mares continues to shine with the Ashland Stakes (gr. I) winner Little Belle the most recent example. Once again, it proves that where you found gold once, if it is a rich vein you will find it again. With the same mating pattern found in last weekend's graded stakes winner Adriano, we find that this ...

Zenyatta (Street Cry (IRE) - Vertigineux, by Kris S.) further enhanced the burgeoning reputation of her sire on Saturday with a victory in the Apple Blossom Handicap (gr. I). The undefeated 4-year-old follows Street Sense (TrueNicks, SRO), Tomcito (a Peruvian Derby winner, who was third in last week's Florida Derby (gr. I) on his U.S. debut), ...

  With less than four weeks left until Derby day, and only a couple of important preps remaining, things are finally beginning to take shape. What did we learn last weekend? Well, for one, Colonel John is legit. The son of Tiznow quieted all those who claimed El Gato Malo would have won the Sham had it not been for a poor trip. Fact is, ...