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Each week I write a column in BloodHorse Daily on the Breeders' Cup Challenge that typically includes table information relevant to the week. But because of room constraints, I do not run all race winners to date. Since I have that information--and plenty of room on this blog--I figured I'd post it. Breeders’ Cup Challenge winners, ...

Sam Houston Race Park officials could offer opinions on the track's many low-takeout wagers, but they figure that pricing every horizontal wager (Daily Double, Pick 3, Pick 4, Pick 5) at 12% for a fourth straight year says volumes. That is to say, if low pricing wasn't working; Sam Houston wouldn't be bringing the 12% rate back each season. ...

I enjoyed catching up with owner-breeder Dennis Drazin last week for a Winner's Circle feature in the Feb. 13 Blood-Horse magazine.Drazin, who also advises the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association on operations at Monmouth Park, has a classic contender this year in New Jersey-bred Sunny Ridge, who won the Withers Stakes (gr. III) ...

Today's post ranks right up there with those free HBO weeks, if you're like me and save money to the satellite company now in favor of binge watching shows a year or so later. Just as HBO offers free weekends to see what you're missing, today I'll link to a magazine story I wrote on takeout in the Feb. 6 issue of Blood-Horse Magazine. Give ...

With the completion of this year’s Breeders’ Cup Challenge “Win and You’re In,” races for 2015, I thought I'd look at the four horses to win more than one Challenge race this year, Beholder, who won three; and two-time winners Big Blue Kitten, Honor Code, and Wild Dude. Beholder, by Henny Hughes—Leslie’s Lady by Tricky Creek 2015 ...

When Breeders' Cup and Keeneland officials announced in June 2014 that the Lexington track would host the 2015 edition of the World Championships, most believed that the Dirt Mile (gr. I) race would be offered at two turns and 1 1/16 miles or one-turn on Keeneland's Beard Course, which measures seven furlongs and 184 feet.But thanks to some ...

You can't keep a great sire down.After being shut out in 2015 Breeders' Cup Challenge races through Sept. 6, Galileo saw three of his runners win Challenge races Sept. 12-13: Johannes Vermeer in the Willis Champions Juvenile Stakes (Ire-III), a ''Win and You're In'' to the Juvenile Turf (gr. IT); Minding in the Moyglare Stud Stakes (Ire-I), ...

One of the nice things about my drive to the office is passing Keeneland each day. In the past few weeks it’s been fun to watch the tents go up that will house the various added seating for the Breeders’ Cup World Championships Oct. 30-31. Some of this added seating also will be available for the upcoming fall meeting, which begins ...

A tidbit to start today's blog: The three sires currently or formerly based in the U.S. to already have two different horses win Breeders' Cup Challenge races this year all boast victories in the King's Bishop Stakes (gr. I) as Tale of the Cat won the seven-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds at Saratoga in 1997 (when it was grade II), Hard Spun won ...

With three Breeders’ Cup Challenge races this weekend, Del Mar will be in the spotlight. Two of those three races will be on the main track, which for the first time since 2006 offers a dirt surface after an eight-year run for Polytrack. While the track record of those two main-track races, the TVG Pacific Classic Stakes (gr. I) and Pat ...