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When a highly-inbred horse does well on the track and is bred to outcrosses, watch out, world! I responded to a comment in an earlier post that a mare with considerable inbreeding often yields superior runners when she's outcrossed, but will generally fare poorly at the track herself.  When a filly with close-up pedigree ...

[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/henneganbrothers_large.jpg'']John & Brad Hennegan[/image] After working for others for too many years, Long Island, New York natives and brothers John and Brad Hennegan quit their jobs and started working for themselves on a project that they believed in. Their goal was to make horse ...

The final results of the poll are in! Surprisingly, Point Given won by a large margin, garnering more than 30% of the votes. I was a bit surprised, not that you guys voted him the winner, but that he won by so much. I bet that if we took this poll again in six months, Curlin's votes would go way up! Thanks to everyone who voted. Since we had ...

  Like everybody else who watched the Florida Derby, my initial reaction to the dominating performance of Big Brown was, ''Wow!'' Several factors made the five-length victory so impressive: A) The fact that his time of 1:48.16 was less than a half-second off the track record, and was nearly a full second faster than Barbaro's winning ...

Transformation of a dream often begins with acts of imagination that elevate a starting vision of change above the intimidating presence of things as they are. When the Belmont Child Care Association was incorporated in 1998, a child care center was just such a dream. Yet, if such a dream is passionate and clear, and if it can call a great many ...

In 1987, the Kentucky Democratic primary for governor included two men who had previously held the post (Julian Carroll and John Y. Brown Jr.), the incumbent Lieutenant Governor (Steve Beshear), and Gov. Martha Layne Collins’ cabinet secretary (Grady Stumbo). Wallace Wilkinson, then an unknown, entered the race with a political consultant who at ...

Jeri from New York asked: I'm pleased to see Empire Stud signed up! Could you ask Alan Porter if there is any value to tying to inbreed to Alydar. I do not see his name come up in pedigrees anymore and I have mare by Western Expression whose bottom has Alydar mate of third dam. I may be going back to far, but I could not help but think of the ...

The early results from anabolic steroid testing at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s 2-year-old in training sales have been both interesting and encouraging. They're interesting because, based on the low numbers of horses tested at the request of their buyers, there's not an overwhelming concern among shoppers about steroids. But they're also ...

For much of the U.S., the cost and availability of hay has been worrisome since mid-2007. Here in Kentucky, the situation was caused by a hot, dry summer's drought that parched the land and kept hay from growing. (Read more on TheHorse.com:  rising hay prices, hay prices affect horse rescue, hay shortage inspires alternative ...