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Making the Grade - by Dan Liebman

A small group of trainers standing in the shedrow of the stakes barn at Pimlico the morning prior to Preakness day were discussing a myriad of problems facing the industry. It didn’t take long for the conversation to shift to medication, a topic on which every trainer has an opinion. “There is a group...

Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 07-15-2008
Contract Heat - by Dan Liebman

Calder Race Course and Ellis Park have little in common…until you look beneath the surface. Located in South Florida on the Miami-Dade/Broward County line, Calder is part of the sprawling metropolitan area known as Miami, Fla. Driving east takes one to the Atlantic Ocean, the drive time for the short...

Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 07-08-2008
Back to the Future - by Dan Liebman

Trainer Jack Van Berg is a member of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, as is his late father, Marion Van Berg. If there were a section of the Hall of Fame for breeders, Arthur B. Hancock III would be a member, as would his father, the late A.B. “Bull” Hancock Jr. These two men from prominent...

Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 06-24-2008
Add Seasoning - by Dan Liebman

Seattle Slew was a heck of a racehorse. He started only three times at 2 and had just six races prior to winning the 1977 Kentucky Derby (gr. I). He went on to win the Preakness (gr. I) and Belmont (gr. I) Stakes and remains, 31 years later, the only unbeaten horse to win the Triple Crown. Big Brown...

Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 06-17-2008
In the Game - by Dan Liebman

Bill Casner had been out of racing for 18 years when the Texas native was invited to a suite to celebrate the opening night of racing at Lone Star Park, just north of Dallas. He spotted a man across the room and felt sure he knew him. Casner and Noah Powell, who had first met each other 30 years earlier...

Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 06-10-2008
Hand Cupped - by Dan Liebman

I watched parts of the Indianapolis 500 May 25. But I wonder how much less of it I would have viewed had the first 75 laps been on one network and the last 125 laps on another. Just a small inconvenience? I don’t know. I might have just tuned out because of the silliness of making me—or is it asking...

Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 06-03-2008
Breach City - by Dan Liebman

At the 1999 Jockey Club Round Table, participants heard an interesting presentation from IBM Global Services manager Mark Elliott, who discussed areas in which his company believed it could partner with the fledgling National Thoroughbred Racing Association. Foremost among them was the creation of a...

Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 05-27-2008
Big Leap - by Dan Liebman

Machu Picchu is translated to mean “Old Mountain” or “Old Peak.” Discovered on a mountain ridge in Peru in 1911, it is often called “The Lost City of the Incas.” Built around 1450 and abandoned 100 years later, Machu Picchu is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. Visiting Machu Picchu affords a...

Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 05-19-2008
The Sound of Silence - by Dan Liebman

After winning the Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) May 2, Airdrie Stud owner Brereton Jones talked of the relationship his family has developed with trainer Larry Jones and his wife, Cindy. “The Jones stable is a small family operation, just like Airdrie,” he said. In the twilight of the following day, Larry Jones...

Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 05-06-2008
Dear John - by Dan Liebman

One night during the 2007 Keeneland November sale, Eoin Harty was enjoying a leisurely dinner when the topic turned to horses, in particular those in his Southern California stable. The trainer got a twinkle in his eye when he began to speak about a colt that had impressively broken his maiden the month...

Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 04-29-2008

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