Top Japanese jockey Yuichi Fukunaga is coming to ride in the United States for a couple of months. Yuichi's visit will begin June 28th and he'll ride at Churchill Downs until July 1st. Then he'll venture to Betfair Hollywood Park and Del Mar, according to my Twitter acquaintance Kuniyasu Arai (@uk_maniax...

Wonderful track photographer Bill Denver of Equi-Photo sent several people this photo (above) of Japanese jockey Hiroki Goto after a victory earlier this month. Hiroki is spending the summer at Monmouth park, and is one of the leading riders in Japan with over 1,300 career wins. This particular photo...

An article by Tanya Tyler at bizlex.com on the first of three "Women Leading Kentucky" luncheons was sent to me by Erica Larson. The article was very interesting, because the round table topic was 'How Kentucky Became Southern.' The article brought a brief history lesson, which of course involved horses...

This isn't the Kentucky Derby, this is the Breeders' Cup . Last year at the Breeders' Cup Stable Boy and I were able to push out track-side video in real time, through my blog. At the same time, I was tweeting live from the gap at Santa Anita. Observing the horses coming on and off the track. As well...

With the United States anticipating the release of Secretariat , let's shift focus on another country's new horse racing movie. Korea . Movie Trailer: Overview: Grand Prix basically follows the course of a girl's determination to be the first prominent female jockey in Korea. Seo Joo-Hee suffers a breakdown...

Krypton "Super Man" is the middle name my sister wished to give me after being born. Although my parents said no to this, her being almost 4 at the time, My sister adorned me with "Isaac" after the very cool waiter from the hit TV series Love Boat. My sister has an interesting obsession with Superman...

--- While attending the American Horse Publications convention over the weekend, I was able to network with a lot of cool horse peeps. One of which was Lyndsey White. She informed me on a big event occurring named "riders4helmets National Helmet Awareness Day" on July 10th, 2010. Lyndsey said, This is...

Watch Jedi Code win! Jedi Code always seems to get out of the gate slow. That is how he ran a year ago and that is how he has run his past two starts. Left at the start in his first race this year after a VERY long lay off. Now a first place win and a bright future. He deserves a step up, or will most...

How much have the Dude's improved since their Florida Derby meeting? Let's take a brief second to review their year so far... First Dude : For 2010, he is 5-1-2-1. Including the place in the Preakness Stakes, and show in the Toyota Bluegrass Stakes. Game On Dude : For 2010, he is 5-2-1-0. Including a...

Hello everyone, here is GREAT news on our beloved Arrrrr! --- Posted by Susan on 5/11/2010 Good news! Arrrrr's trainer at Penn National - Mike Salvaggio - just retired him. The horse was vet scratched in a $4,000 claimer at Penn National on May 1. He was telling them he didn't want to be a race horse...