Make no mistake about it—the movement to decouple pari-mutuel licenses from electronic gaming is a bad deal for racing. Efforts to weaken or even break this connection are now being debated by Florida...
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How many ways can the racing industry find to undermine its own efforts? Sadly, too many. The most recent surfaced last week when the National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association announced...
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Breeder Eamon Cleary took a gamble when planning the mating that resulted in Mohaymen, dominating winner of the Jan. 30 Lambholm South Holy Bull Stakes (gr. II). Using pedigree consultant Alan Porter as...
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Glen Hill Farm founder Leonard Lavin has a personality tailor-made for Thoroughbred racing. While tough and demanding of his racing operation’s employees on one hand, he has been equally accepting during...
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The Thoroughbred Charities of America did not just start on the ground floor of aftercare awareness 26 years ago; the charity helped build the ground floor. Created to serve as a United Way-type fundraising...
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The timing was right in 1916 when the Kentucky Thoroughbred Horse Association formed and began publishing a newsletter that set the roots of what would evolve into Blood-Horse . The United States was a...
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The tribulations suffered by Ontario's Thoroughbred community offer several lessons for racing throughout the United States...if only political and industry leaders will pay attention. To say everything...
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"At a crossroads" can no longer be used to describe the health of racing in Illinois. The industry there is teetering on the brink of collapse and whatever action is taken (or not) next year is likely...
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The commercial markets are generally trending upward, but the selectivity of the market will continue to cause heartburn for a lot of breeders. If a horse isn’t “ticking all the boxes,” then buyers are...
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Eyebrows rose in August 2014 after Breeders' Cup announced the 2015 World Championships would be held at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington. Many wondered how a racetrack with an attendance record of nearly...
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