Two and a half years ago The Jockey Club launched a barrage of initiatives with the hopes of slowing and ideally reversing years of decline suffered by Thoroughbred racing. Improved TV coverage, fantasy...
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Two-year-old racehorses are all about the anticipation. Owners cannot wait for the first start to see if their horses have what it takes to win. And if those horses become winners, the anticipation only...
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The second week of the Keeneland November breeding stock sale was tough, but not in the way many have been accustomed to describing the commercial market in the wake of the Great Recession. Buyers were...
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The second day of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Santa Anita Park turned into an afternoon for returning winners. In a span of six Breeders’ Cup races, four previous winners—Groupie Doll, Mizdirection...
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Just as good horses make good trainers, writers need good stories. The challenges the Parbhoo family faced when many family members had their homes flooded by Hurricane Sandy just a few days before last...
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The debate over race-day Salix in America is at a logjam that puts the federal government shutdown to shame. Both camps are entrenched, Breeders’ Cup has backed off its race-day policy, and the American...
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An interesting statistic came out of the International Simulcasting Conference held earlier this month in Lexington. Hank Zeitlin, president and COO of Equibase, reported that due to the shrinking foal...
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(Originally published in the October 12, 2013, issue of The Blood-Horse magazine . Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column. ) By Eric Mitchell - @BH_EMitchell on Twitter...
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Timing is everything, and the spin required to convince the Kentucky legislature that the Thoroughbred industry needs alternative gaming to survive just got a lot trickier. A recent statewide equine survey...
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(Originally published in the September 14, 2013 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine . Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column. ) By Eric Mitchell - @BH_EMitchell on...
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