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Paint By Numbers - by Dan Liebman

Based on Reports of Mares Bred, The Jockey Club recently announced its projection of the foal crop of 2009 as 35,400, which would represent a 3.3% decline from the estimated 36,600 foals of 2008. Many believe the foal crop should be much smaller. Consider this quote from pinhooker Eddie Woods, speaking...

Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 08-26-2008
Star Power - by Dan Liebman

Just three months after it was announced he was being pensioned, Storm Cat was represented by the top price Aug. 5 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling sale. How fitting. The success enjoyed by the 25-year-old son of Storm Bird is obvious. Storm Cat made Overbrook Farm what it is today because he has...

Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 08-19-2008
Sinking the Pirates - by Dan Liebman

Walking the streets of Manhattan Aug. 9 past the $5 watches, $10 framed prints, and $20 purses, we saw two young men selling compact discs of recently released music. Judging by the prices, and their low overhead storefront, it was highly possible their inventory did not come from music publishers. Several...

Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 08-12-2008
Policy Play - by Dan Liebman

The Breeders’ Cup took important steps last week to help ensure the integrity of its races, while at the same time prodding those states not already on board to hurry and establish steroid policies for tracks its racing authority regulates. Should a horse test positive for anabolic steroids at the Oct...

Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 08-05-2008
For a Change - by Dan Liebman

As the great poet/musician Bob Dylan so eloquently wrote 45 years ago, “The Times They Are a-Changin’.” Though the rock icon was writing about the political and social upheaval of that era, the title track of his 1964 album is often referred to when any major societal changes are occurring. At The Blood...

Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 07-29-2008
Sound Off - by Dan Liebman

Something important must happen before a problem can be solved. It must be acknowledged that a problem exists. After analyzing the data in a study released this week by The Blood-Horse , and listening to a discussion of the information by six industry participants, it is clear that a problem exists....

Posted to What's Going On Here (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 07-22-2008
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

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