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A mid-August list of the leading first-crop sires — courtesy of the Blood-Horse — is a little like a message sent by the future to those of us stuck in the present, or, in this Olympic year, the first few strides of a long race.
The truth...
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Injury lurks around every corner for our equine charges. A bad step, a flying rock, a suddenly developed breathing problem — any of these can forever alter a racing career, a life, and all are but a moment away from becoming reality.
We send them...
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Our fellow blogger Teresa, over at Brooklyn Backstretch, suggested (here) a few weeks ago that she and I are, as she put it, “separated-at-birth siblings.”
At the time, I poopooed the idea as a suggestion that would come as news to our mothers...
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A thoroughbred barn just before the races begin is like a locker room before game time.
The rituals of preparation are in full swing. One horse is walking the shedrow, getting the blood flowing, the legs stretched. Others are pawing at the ground, stamping...
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In recent months, much has been made about the cruelty — or at least, callousness — of horse racing.
The court of public opinion, seemingly, has decided: horsemen, trainers in particular, are bad guys. They drug their horses. They drive them...
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In hockey — a sport that I know fairly well, having played it since I was seven years old — there’s a tradition called the playoff beard.
When a team enters the Stanley Cup playoffs, members of the team, individually or as a group, pledge...
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