Old habits die hard. BloodHorse , which has stuffed mailboxes weekly since before the Great Depression, will transition to a monthly publication with the April issue. Apparently too many subscribers are...
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There’s no question that the Thoroughbred racing business is a risky proposition. The stories published in the general media these days focus on the number of equine fatalities and not the snappy comments...
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In the winter of 1997, Joe Hirsch began a column in Daily Racing Form: “Pulpit, Pulpit, Pulpit. That’s all people are talking about.” The legendary Turf writer was musing on the buzz in South Florida surrounding...
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By Eric Mitchell Much has been written about the polarization of the Thoroughbred commercial market. Within subgroups of sale horses by quality, we've seen a growing divide between what's paid for those...
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Central to everything we do here at Blood-Horse is the horse. Of our multifaceted mission to chronicle the life of this amazing creature that is the Thoroughbred racehorse, racing coverage typically attracts...
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Ogden Mills "Dinny" Phipps' role as chairman of The Jockey Club often had been dismissed as a position atop an ivory tower, far removed from the realities of Thoroughbred racing. It is true Phipps was...
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California Chrome certainly proved his superiority by winning the $10 million Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline (UAE-I) and avenging last year's second-place finish, but jockey Victor Espinoza...
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In our previous column we discussed how the Racing Medication & Testing Consortium determines the regulatory thresholds for therapeutic drugs. We looked at this process because the National Horsemen’s...
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Several weeks ago we questioned the effectiveness of a National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association call for medication research to be conducted, and possibly adopted, independently of the...
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The growth of Central Kentucky into the country's hub for Thoroughbred breeding is owed in no small part to the arrival 140 years ago of veterinarian Dr. Edward Thomas Hagyard. Hagyard opened a veterinary...
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