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Of 201 horses pre-entered to the Oct. 31-Nov. 1 Breeders' Cup World Championships at Santa Anita Park, 38 raced or trained at Keeneland in September or October. House horse Wise Dan, the racing world’s two-time Horse of the Year, used the Shadwell Turf Mile (gr. IT) to set up his Breeders’ Cup Mile (gr. IT) campaign the past three seasons in a ...

Kellyn Gorder - Anne M. Eberhardt By Claire NovakTrainer Kellyn Gorder got the Autumn meet off to a good start on Friday, Oct. 3, when he took the first race of the season with WinStar's Race Day and brought back grade II winner Bourbon Courage to take the sixth for Bourbon Lane Stable.''It was nice to get a couple wins for some of my biggest ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 19, 2014) -- The focus has shifted at Keeneland, as it usually does during the second week of April, to the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (gr. I) and the Kentucky Derby hopefuls who will emerge from that event. Run on April 12, a busy stakes day both at Keeneland and Oaklawn Park--where the Arkansas Derby (gr. I) will be held and ...

Medal Count - Anne M. Eberhardt Photo LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 3, 2014) -- Dale Romans liked Spendthrift Farm's Medal Count from the start. ''I think he's a special horse and I think he's going to go on and get better and better,'' the trainer said April 1, looking ahead to the $100,000 Transylvania Stakes (gr. IIIT) and the April 4 ...

#FullStoryPETA #horseracing #welovethem pic.twitter.com/ixhpCao3Eb— Kelly Wheeler (@kllywhlr) March 22, 2014 FLORENCE, Ky. (Mar. 22, 2014) -- I'm writing today from Turfway Park, we're covering the Spiral Stakes (gr. III) gearing up for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I). It's been a hectic couple of weeks, first traveling to ...

Alex Cutadean films the cheeky subject of 'Saving New Lives' LEXINGTON, KY  (Feb. 28, 2014) -- Astute followers of bloodhorse.com probably noticed our latest project, one I'm extremely proud of, when it rolled out on the website Feb. 5. ''Saving New Lives,'' a behind-the-scenes look at one of the top equine neonatal intensive care units in ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 11, 2013) -- Twenty-five races remain on the Road to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), with the Jan. 4 Jerome Stakes (gr. II) at Aqueduct and the Jan. 11 Sham (gr. III) at Santa Anita Park kicking off the action in 2014. Here's a look at how the winners of last year's prep races fared after their victories, ...

What are you thankful for in horse racing this season? A particular runner, race, person? Respond w/ #thanksracing hashtag— Claire Novak (@BH_CNovak) November 27, 2013 LEXINGTON, Ky. (Nov. 27, 2013) -- It's hard to believe the year is winding to an end; feels like just yesterday we were gearing up for Triple Crown prep season and now it's ...

Photo by Anne M. Eberhardt ARCADIA, Calif. -- (Nov. 1, 2013) Photographers are setting their remotes. Reporters are filing into the press box. Sun up over the San Gabriel mountain range. The buzz is rising. It's Breeders' Cup Friday, and if you can't enjoy horse racing's Super Bowl at Santa Anita, you might as well get out of the ...

Point of Entry wins the Gulfstream Park Turf (Photo: Adam Coglianese) The program was set up with the idea that it would have to be aggressive, with only one goal—the Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT)—in mind. For any other runner it would have been a tall task, but five-time grade I winner Point of Entry sailed along his road to recovery from a ...