You look at Steve Bajer and John O’Hara moving around the sales at Keeneland each September and November, and they seem like two guys who took a wrong turn on the way to a fishing trip. Bajer, 62, and O’Hara, 53, both married, walk the grounds with an easy give-and-take dialogue running between them...

Here we go again. Lentenor is entered in race #8 at Keeneland on Saturday, a $49,000 allowance race at 1 1/8 miles on the All Weather Track, post time is 4:52. Lentenor drew the outside position in the field of eleven. While I would have preferred a different gate, it shouldn’t make that much difference...

Originally published in the October 16, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine . Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column. ) By Evan Hammonds The cornucopia of grade I stakes served up from coast to coast the last two weekends has offered racing fans great insight...

Balance won five stakes including three grade I races—the Santa Anita Oaks, Las Virgenes Stakes, and Santa Margarita Invitational Handicap. Raced by John and Jerry Amerman, she was trained by David Hofmanns. Order this Photo. A millionaire, Balance was retired in November of 2007 as a 4-year-old to Dr...

Busy week for consignors, buyers, and officials at the Keeneland September yearling sale, where 4,857 yearlings are catalogued. Two of those yearlings are by Storm Cat, who was represented by his last two yearling offspring at public auction. North America’s leading sire of sales yearlings for seven...

For this year’s Keeneland September yearling sale, I was asked to help our bloodstock editor, Dede Biles with sending out breaking news alerts and writing mini features on the top priced horses going through the ring. While working at the sale can sometimes leave me utterly exhausted by the end of the...

Blame , winner of the Whitney Handicap (gr. I) in his most recent stakes race, returned home to his barn at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky., after traveling and spending the summer in Saratoga. Order this Photo. Blame has been under the care of Glenn Brookfield at Keeneland since he was two. “He thinks he...

(Originally published in the September 11, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine . Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column. ) By Eric Mitchell Keeneland has successfully developed the September sale into the largest international marketplace for Thoroughbred yearlings...

Undefeated in 19 starts, Peppers Pride won 14 stakes and was a four-time champion in New Mexico. Bred and raced by Joseph Allen, Peppers Pride raced at four different tracks in New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment. She was trained by Joel Marr. A fan favorite, Peppers Pride was retired after her last...

Originally published in the August 28, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine . Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column. ) By Evan Hammonds Earlier this summer, during the Welfare and Safety of the Racehorse Summit, the racing community discovered that not enough...