By Jennifer Wirth, of The Saturday Post Every now and then, a remarkable racehorse can elude you when it is in your direct line of sight. And, in our home, there are few places to fix your eyes without...
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Penny Chenery recently announced that Horse of the Year Zenyatta will be the recipient of the inaugural Secretariat Vox Populi ("Voice of the People") Award. Chenery and her family raced the great Secretariat...
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Discussing the term "The Racing Game" in the Thoroughbred industry, many people would relate the phrase to TOBA's amazing The Racing Game mission of Thoroughbred Ownership. However I am talking about a...
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This will be my last post about the World Equestrian Games, but I wanted to tell you all about my encounter with Ron Turcotte, the jockey of Secretariat, while I was out at the Kentucky Horse Park a couple...
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This is an exciting weekend for horse racing—not just because of the back-to-back-to-back days of live ESPN coverage from Keeneland starting Friday. Not just because of the slew of Breeders’ Cup Challenge...
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( As an addendum to the Secretariat trilogy, I am linking to my story that has been on Secretariat.com for the past several weeks. While we’re all in a Secretariat frame of mind, ponder this: What if Big...
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By Jennifer Wirth, of The Saturday Post In 1969, an ordinary coin was tossed into the air that held three sides – winning, losing, and everything beyond the two polar outcomes. The outcome of the coin...
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Part 3 of my Secretariat trilogy is a review of the long-awaited film that opens nationwide on Oct. 8. For those who wish to see the movie with an open mind and not be made aware of its flaws, you can...
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I will be the first to admit that I am not a regular reader of O, The Oprah Winfrey Magazine . However, more than 2.5 million people, mostly women, do read O each month. I also don’t often visit Oprah...
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(This article originally appeared in the Blood-Horse magazine in 2002) In the spring of 1969, a magical seed was planted in the equine garden known as The Meadow, located in Caroline County, Va., just...
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