By J. Keeler Johnson The Great Race Place has long been known for its great races and its very fast racing surface. For the first seventy-four years of its existence, Santa Anita Park had a main track...
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(Originally published in the November 6, 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 It’s impossible to separate...
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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...
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Before touching on a great weekend of racing, let me start out by stating six sweet words that should have racing fans around the nation jumping for joy: Santa Anita is returning to dirt. It's the best...
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I started to write this column a month ago but several friends said take it easy on Santa Anita after the Feb. 6 card was canceled. That amount of rain, they said, might have caused racing to be canceled...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Hall of Fame Trainer, Bob Baffert, has a new line of signature collectible sportswear to benefit thoroughbred care and horse racing fans. "This is what the industry needs" said Baffert...
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Living in Kentucky, I don’t often attend the races in California. But I certainly see many simulcast races. And I definitely have my opinion on synthetic surfaces. Attending the 2009 Breeders’ Cup, I found...
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OK, the curtain is about to go up for the revival of “My Cup Runneth Under.” Most of the audience is disgruntled. The cast is not as strong as it should be; the stage is poorly constructed; the ensemble...
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It was a casual introduction, nearly 25 years ago now, at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November breeding stock sale. Remember his name, the man said, because you are going to hear a lot from him. We’ve all...
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Courtesy of Becky Johnston The 72 nd Sanita Anita Handicap will be run Saturday. There are four South American and three European bred runners in the field of fourteen. (Matto Mondo CHI, Heroi Do Bafra...
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