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Tampa Bay Derby Was Perfect for Street Sense

Tampa Bay Derby Was Perfect for Street Sense

Hall of Fame trainer Carl Nafzger recalls choosing the Tampa Bay Derby as a steppingstone for Street Sense's Kentucky Derby (gr. I) success.

 Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Pete Anderson, Rode Forego, Dies

Pete Anderson, who rode the great Forego in the 1973 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) and won the 1958 Belmont Stakes on Cavan, died of a heart attack Feb. 19 at a Hialeah hospital.

 Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Rockamundo, Upset Arkansas Derby, Dies

Rockamundo, Upset Arkansas Derby, Dies

Rockamundo, who won the 1993 Arkansas Derby (gr. II) at 108-1 for owners Gary and Mary West, died Jan. 18 at age 23 because of complications from colic.

 Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Kauai Katie Romps in Forward Gal

Kauai Katie Romps in Forward Gal

Kauai Katie, who had begun her 3-year-old campaign with a smart eight-length score in the Old Hat Stakes (gr. III) Jan. 1, captured the Forward Gal at seven furlongs in 1:22.13.

 Saturday, January 26, 2013
IEAH Sells Its Shares in Big Brown

IEAH Sells Its Shares in Big Brown

International Equine Acquisitions Holdings has sold all 11 of its shares in champion and dual classic winner Big Brown to a group that includes Robert N. Clay's Three Chimneys Farm.

 Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Judge, Owned Part of Afleet Alex, Dies

Joseph Judge, part owner of 2005 Preakness Stakes (gr. I) and Belmont Stakes (gr. I) winner Afleet Alex during the colt's racing days, died Sunday, Jan. 20 of complications from cancer.

 Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Outstanding Breeder: Darley

Sheikh Mohammed's Eclipse Award as outstanding breeder was due to an overabundance of quality rather than quantity.

 Saturday, January 19, 2013

Drosselmeyer's First Foal is a Colt

The first reported offspring by Belmont Stakes (gr. I) and Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I) winner Drosselmeyer is a chestnut colt foaled Jan. 8 at Craig and Holly Bandoroff's Denali Stud near Paris, Ky.

 Thursday, January 10, 2013

Sam Houston Meet to Open Jan. 18

Sam Houston Race Park will open its 20th live racing season when it kicks off its 2013 meet on Friday, Jan. 18, with average daily purses in excess of $165,000

 Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Musketier to Adena Springs Canada

Musketier to Adena Springs Canada

Durable multiple graded stakes winner Musketier has been retired from racing to stand in 2013 at Frank Stronach's Adena Springs Canada near Aurora, Ontario. A fee will be announced later.

 Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Injury Keeps Lakerville From Turf Sprint

Crack turf sprinter Lakerville, winner of four of six starts including his debut at Santa Anita last year, will miss the $1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (gr. IT) at Santa Anita on Nov. 3

 Monday, September 17, 2012
Arlington Million Winner Debussy Retired

Arlington Million Winner Debussy Retired

Debussy, winner of the 2010 Arlington Million Stakes (gr. IT), has been retired from racing for stallion duty at Llety Stud in Carmathenshire, Wales

 Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Grade I Winner Awesome Maria Retired

Grade I Winner Awesome Maria Retired

Joyce Robsham's homebred Awesome Maria, a New York grade I winner, has been retired from racing because of a tendon injury discovered after her last race, the Delaware Handicap (gr. II) July 21, in which she finished third.

 Sunday, August 12, 2012

Arc de Triomphe Winner, Sire Carnegie Dies

Carnegie, winner of the 1994 Forte Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (Fr-I) for Sheikh Mohammed, has been euthanized because of the infirmities of age.

 Thursday, August 09, 2012
Graded Winner Snow Top Mountain Retired

Graded Winner Snow Top Mountain Retired

Barbara Hunter's multiple graded stakes-winning mare Snow Top Mountain, in foal to Blame, has been retired from racing with earnings of $525,303.

 Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Graded Winner Marcavelly Gets First Winner

Marcavelly, a two-time graded stakes winner, sired his first winner when his son The B's and E's won a maiden special weight race on turf at Belmont Park July 15 for breeder/owner Mark Dodson.

 Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Winner's Circle: Strait Stuff

Winner's Circle: Strait Stuff

Wally and Terry Leong come up with a Queen's Plate winner.

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 Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Triple Crown Heroes: Gallant Fox

Triple Crown Heroes: Gallant Fox

In the second of 11 installments on previous Triple Crown winners, a look at how The Blood-Horse magazine covered the 1930 Belmont Stakes victory of Gallant Fox.

 Thursday, June 07, 2012
Hawkeye Highlight: Gary Lucas & Awesomemundo

Hawkeye Highlight: Gary Lucas & Awesomemundo

Iowa breeder/owner gets awesome results with Allaire DuPont Distaff Stakes winner Awesomemundo.

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 Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Sportswriter Furman Bisher Dies

Georgia sportswriter Furman Bisher, a regular at the Kentucky Derby (gr. I) for years, died Sunday, March 18, of a heart attack.

 Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Breeder/Owner Buddy New Dies

Breeder/owner Walter "Buddy" New, who raced three Kentucky Derby (gr. I) starters, died March 8 in La Jolla, Calif.

 Thursday, March 15, 2012
Stacelita Earns Turf Female Championship

Stacelita Earns Turf Female Championship

Stacelita didn't win a Breeders' Cup World Championship event in 2011, but her two grade I triumphs were enough for her to be voted champion female turf runner.

 Monday, January 16, 2012
Irish Eyes Are Smiling - By David Schmitz

Irish Eyes Are Smiling - By David Schmitz

Anthony Hegarty and John Wade's success has extended to the sport of Thoroughbred racing where they participate as breeders, consignors, and farm owners.

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 Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Multiple GSW Wasted Tears Retired

Multiple GSW Wasted Tears Retired

Wasted Tears, trainer Bart Evans' homebred grade II winner, has been retired from racing to become a broodmare.

 Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Shotgun Gulch, Switch Meet in TCA

Shotgun Gulch, Switch Meet in TCA

Shotgun Gulch, winner of the Vinery Madison Stakes (gr, I) at the Keeneland spring meeting, will be gunning for her second stakes win at the Lexington track as she contests the Thoroughbred Club of America (gr. II).

 Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Blog: Hoping for an Encore - Donna Arnold

Blog: Hoping for an Encore - Donna Arnold

"It was so thrilling that I couldn't get over it."

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 Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Adena Buys Three Top-Priced Yearlings

Adena Buys Three Top-Priced Yearlings

Two fillies that each sold for $110,000 highlighted the 11th session of the Keeneland September yearling sale.

 Thursday, September 22, 2011
Presque Isle Downs Masters Lures 15

Presque Isle Downs Masters Lures 15

Jenny's So Great has a chance to add additional luster to her name as she totes co-high weight of 123 pounds in the $400,000 Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes (gr. II).

 Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Seaway: Embur's Song  Seeks Fifth Straight

Seaway: Embur's Song Seeks Fifth Straight

Embur's Song will carry the highest weight of her career as she attempts to win her fifth consecutive stakes in the Seaway Stakes (Can-III) Sept. 3 at Woodbine.

 Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Flashy Speed from Flashy Bull's Runners

Flashy Speed from Flashy Bull's Runners

Airdrie Stud's Flashy Bull is off to a hot start with his first crop; sire of Debutante Stakes (gr. III) winner Flashy Lassie.

 Friday, July 01, 2011
Winner's Circle - Sweet Milestone

Winner's Circle - Sweet Milestone

One of just eight North American-based trainers with 3,000 wins and a winning 
percentage of at least 20%...

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 Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Uncle Mo Shines Spotlight on Timely Writer

Uncle Mo Shines Spotlight on Timely Writer

Uncle Mo, the 2010 champion 2-year-old male and the early favorite for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), is expected to launch his 3-year-old season in the Timely Writer Stakes.

 Sunday, March 06, 2011
Consistent Blind Luck is Champion 3YO Filly

Consistent Blind Luck is Champion 3YO Filly

Blind Luck, a daughter of Pollard's Vision, won or placed in all nine of her races, all graded stakes, and was the division's leader by earnings, with $1,679,662. It's easy to see why she was named champion 3-year-old filly.

 Monday, January 17, 2011
Slip Away Named Top Steeplechaser

Slip Away Named Top Steeplechaser

Ken and Sarah Ramsey's homebred Slip Away is named 2010 champion Steeplechaser based on his 25-plus length score in the Colonial Cup Hurdle Stakes (NSA-I).

 Monday, January 17, 2011
Hall of Fame Trainer Mack Miller Dies

Hall of Fame Trainer Mack Miller Dies

MacKenzie 'Mack' Miller, a Hall of Fame trainer who won the 1993 Kentucky Derby (gr. I) with Paul Mellon's Sea Hero, died the morning of Dec. 10 at the University of Kentucky's Markey Cancer Center in Lexington. He was 89.

 Saturday, December 11, 2010
Taking the Blame

Taking the Blame

Claiborne homebred Blame descends from a historic family associated with the farm for nearly 60 years.

 Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Influx of Stallions to Adena Springs North

Frank Stronach has added considerable strength to his Canadian stallion roster. Headlining the group is English champion North Light, the only Epsom Derby (Eng-I) winner standing in North America.

 Thursday, October 28, 2010

Olmodavor to Magali in California

Graded stakes winner Olmodavor will stand in 2011 in the state where he did his best racing.The 11-year-old stallion will hold court in California at Rich and Gaby Sulpizio's Magali Farms near Santa Ynez.

 Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Valenzuela Ends Stakes Drought in Morvich

Valenzuela Ends Stakes Drought in Morvich

Quick Enough lived up to his name in the Morvich Handicap (gr. IIIT) Oct. 11 as he gave jockey Patrick Valenzuela his first Oak Tree stakes win in nearly four years with a 1 1/2-length score in the six-furlong turf event.

 Monday, October 11, 2010
Yankee Fourtune Sprints to Hawthorne Derby

Yankee Fourtune Sprints to Hawthorne Derby

What Yankee Fourtune did in the Hawthorne Derby (gr. IIIT) Oct. 9 is what he does best, and that is to set the pace.

 Saturday, October 09, 2010

Horseman Ralph Kercheval Dies at 98

Ralph G. Kercheval, who managed Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Sagamore Farm in Maryland during the days of Native Dancer, died Oct. 6 in Lexington after a long illness.

 Thursday, October 07, 2010
Pletcher Quartet Stands Out in Frizette

Pletcher Quartet Stands Out in Frizette

R Heat Lightning, fresh off a nifty score in the Spinaway Stakes (gr. I) at seven furlongs Sept. 5 at Saratoga, steps up to a mile in the Frizette Stakes (gr. I) for 2-year-old fillies Oct. 9 at Belmont Park.

 Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Beldame: Life At Ten to Start Another Streak

Beldame: Life At Ten to Start Another Streak

Life At Life At Ten, who had a six-race win streak stopped in the Personal Ensign Stakes (gr. I) in her last start, will take on the Personal Ensign winner and four other rivals in the Beldame Stakes Oct. 2.

 Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Derby Winner Real Quiet Dies

Derby Winner Real Quiet Dies

Real Quiet, who was nosed out of becoming racing's 12th Triple Crown winner, died Sept. 27 in a paddock accident at Michael Jester's Penn Ridge Farm near Harrisburg, Pa.

 Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Lion Tamer Sires First Winner

Grade I winner Lion Tamer came through with his first winner when his son Liondrive scored on turf at Belmont Park Sept. 23.

 Sunday, September 26, 2010
Artax Sold to Brazilian Interests

Artax Sold to Brazilian Interests

Artax, the 1999 Eclipse Award-winning sprinter, has been sold by John Smicklas and Randy Gammill to Brazilian interests.

 Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Classic Winner Niigon Sires First Winner

Niigon, a millionaire and Canadian classic winner, came through with his first winner when his son Ojibway Signal scored Sept. 19 at Woodbine.

 Monday, September 20, 2010
Graded Winner Pretty Unusual Dies

Graded Winner Pretty Unusual Dies

California grade II winner Pretty Unusual died because of complications from emergency surgery Sept. 19.

 Monday, September 20, 2010
Crusader Sword to Old Friends in NY

Crusader Sword to Old Friends in NY

Crusader Sword, one of the leading 2-year-olds from his crop, has been pensioned from stallion duty and will reside at Old Friends' retirement farm in New York.

 Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Irish Champion Sariska Retired

Irish champion filly Sariska has been retired from racing after failing to break from the starting gate for the second straight time.

 Wednesday, September 15, 2010
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