It was quite an arduous journey, but the Bill Mott- and Chad Brown-trained horses, along with Point of Entry, finally arrived at Santa Anita at 9:15 Monday morning following an 11-hour trip. With the New York airports nearly shut down, the horses boarded a van at 10:30 at Belmont Park and headed upstate...

Animal Kingdom at Keeneland Oct. 26 (C. Novak) ARCADIA, CA -- If his trainer were another—less conservative, less reserved—you’d be inclined to doubt the legitimacy of Animal Kingdom’s upcoming bid at the Nov. 3 Breeders’ Cup Mile (gr. IT) at Santa Anita Park. You might wonder how the 2011 Kentucky Derby...

(Originally published in the October 20, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine . Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column. ) By Evan Hammonds - @BH_EHammonds on Twitter Love or hate the two-day, 15-race Breeders’ Cup format, the addition of a pair of turf races for...

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Seven weeks out from the Breeders' Cup World Championships and there is much to contemplate about this year's return to Santa Anita Park. A change to be closely scrutinized is the ban on race-day furosemide (known as Salix or Lasix) in all the 2-year-old races. The ban is the first step toward ending...

By Michele MacDonald If there was a Horse of the World title, Fantastic Light would have earned it twice. Few racehorses over the span of history have come close to accomplishing what he did during the five years of his racing career. He competed in seven countries and won group/grade I races in five...

BloodHorse.com launches a new online video program “After the Wire.” The inaugural episode will air on BloodHorse.com by 11 a.m. (EST) Monday, January 30, 2012. "After the Wire" will follow the Monday schedule weekly and will focus solely on the previous weekend’s Thoroughbred racing. Each 4- to 5-minute...

(Originally published in the December 24, 2011 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) A slew of horses coming out of the two-day Breeders’ Cup World Championships in early November returned to the races in the next month, seeking...

(Originally published in the December 3, 2011 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) For Chanteclair Farm president Ron Wallace, the stars aligned during the first week of November to create the perfect storm. First, on Nov....

(Originally published in the November 19, 2011 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) If Adam Lazarus had had his way, he may have been working in the broadcast booth at the Breeders’ Cup World Championships instead of attending...