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This year's Perfect Trip Award will recognize a Breeders' Cup Challenge race winner from this season's North American races that best exemplifies a ''Perfect Trip''. The winner will be selected from a panel of racing experts and will have the opportunity to experience his or her own ''Perfect Trip'' through Sentient Jet, with ...

Thoroughbred racehorses require some basic care—food, water, a clean environment, regular exercise, and veterinary care. It is unacceptable, therefore, that we have racetracks and horsemen’s groups in this country not fulfilling one of those basic needs—veterinary care—during training hours. The issue of having a vet on call during training hours ...

The late Emmy Award-winning producer Danny Arnold couldn’t have come up with a better script for his wife’s homebred colt Turallure than what transpired in the Ricoh Woodbine Mile Stakes (Can-IT) Sept. 18. Racing for Donna Arnold’s Four D Stable, Turallure captured the seven-figure stakes to secure a starting berth in the TVG Breeders’ Cup Mile ...

TV commentator and former jockey Donna Barton Brothers is the author of Inside Track: Insider’s Guide to Horse Racing.  It’s been a tough year for jockeys, some of whom have found their names in the news—and not in a positive way. Those controversies prompted me, a former jockey, to reflect on the challenges that many jockeys face.I know, I ...

This column has nothing to do with the defection of Tizway from next Saturday’s Jockey Club Gold Cup, as disappointing as it was, or the horses that will be competing in the mile and a quarter event, even though at this point a good portion of the field appears as if it will be made of horses more likely to point for the BC Marathon.The column is ...

The following was written for cathartic purposes and to share the memories of a year in racing that, from a personal standpoint, has never been duplicated. Be forewarned, though, it is extremely long, so proceed at your own risk.When people think of 1969, the flood of events that come spewing forth include man walking on the moon, Woodstock, the ...

Let’s be honest, this year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I) needs a boost, especially with Zenyattamania and even a double dose of Curlin still fresh in everyone’s mind. The most obvious boost would be the inclusion of Havre de Grace. Even better would be a showdown between Havre de Grace and Blind Luck. The latter scenario appears doubtful at this ...

Long-time breeder Ted Kuster found himself in a slump a few years back. After having devoted more than four decades to breeding and raising Thoroughbreds, a venture he stumbled into, he was getting discouraged. The economy was struggling, and he hadn’t had a big horse in several years. His enthusiasm for the industry waned.Then Hilda’s Passion ...

It is incredibly complicated to figure out what makes a Thoroughbred a gifted racehorse. If the Second Annual Pedigree, Genetics and Performance Conference held recently in Lexington had a theme, this was it.Even with genomics research advancing so quickly, every scientist at the conference talked about genetics testing in terms of helping ...