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Breeding, overnights, and standings — oh, my!
Jul 04 2008, 11:49 AM

At the sales, flashy good looks and a good family background are what matter most. Thoroughbred sales are all about people, and the auction ring is ultimately that most human of endeavors: the popularity contest. Which is interesting, since once the horses...

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Filed under: Breeding, Experience of owning horses, Standings, Auctions, Monmouth Park, Overnights, Stakes races

Scheduling follies, and other news
Jul 01 2008, 12:13 PM

On Saturday, July 5, Monmouth Park will host the United Nations Stakes, a Grade I turf test for horses three years and older contested at 1 3/8 miles. On Saturday, July 12, Belmont Park will host the Man O’ War Stakes, a Grade I turf test for horses...

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Playoff Beard
Jun 29 2008, 12:38 PM

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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Filed under: Experience of owning horses, Observations, That's Amore horses, Human connection to horses

Towards better drug rules
Jun 26 2008, 12:56 PM

Rick Dutrow, trainer of the best three year-old in America, has been notified that he’ll be suspended for 15 days by the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority for a drug offense. Again. Dutrow has a rap sheet that includes more than 30 pages of violations...

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Filed under: Drugs and racing, Steroids, Rick Dutrow, Steve Asmussen

In the penalty box
Jun 25 2008, 11:41 AM

Two high-profile horsemen are in the news today for newly minted suspensions they’ve received. Horse racing’s penalty box is unfortunately filling up. Rick Dutrow, trainer of Big Brown, faces a 15 day suspension in Kentucky after his horse...

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Filed under: Drugs and racing, Steroids, Rick Dutrow, Whip use

The right thing, for the right reasons
Jun 24 2008, 01:07 PM

T.S. Eliot wrote that the “greatest treason [is] to do the right thing for the wrong reason.” Racing, in its stop-and-start initiative to control drugs, will likely be forced to do the right thing for the right reason — the health and...

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Filed under: Future of racing, Drugs and racing, Congress, Breeding, Congressional hearings

Passings
Jun 23 2008, 11:13 AM

For a time after September 11, 2001, as if by universal agreement, sports commentators and even athletes steered away from the old standby of comparing sports to war, the sacrifice of athletes to that of soldiers. Harry Aleo, the crusty Northern California...

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Filed under: Harry Aleo, Jim McKay, Maryland Million

Prince and pauper
Jun 22 2008, 02:09 PM

Wednesday, as the escalator bore me down to the paddock at Monmouth, an email buzzed my Iphone: “Congratulations, Erin and Frank!” it began. A scan brought good news: our filly The Big Four Oh is pregnant. Names are already chosen, male and...

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Whipless
Jun 21 2008, 11:37 AM

In a week with plenty going on — Congressional hearings, major races (including the Queen’s Plate and Colonial Turf Cup), and the possibility that anti-drug horsemen Larry Jones and Jim Squires may have been framed in a recent drug positive...

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The circus is in town!
Jun 20 2008, 11:41 AM

You knew the fix was in for yesterday’s hearings on Capitol Hill regarding horse racing as soon as the title of the hearing was released: “Breeding, Drugs, and Breakdowns: The State of Thoroughbred Horseracing and the Welfare of the Thoroughbred...

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Bad day to be a starter
Jun 17 2008, 11:09 AM

It’s the oldest game in the world: blaming somebody else. In horse racing, it has a long and honored history. Trainers think that all jocks are pinheads and that most lost races are the result of the pinheads’ propensity to make bad decisions...

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Statistics and bluster
Jun 16 2008, 01:24 PM

With Congress breathing down its neck, the racing industry, in the form of Racing Commissioners International, has gathered and released statistics on deaths among rachorses (including thoroughbreds, standardbreds, and quarter horses). How you interpret...

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Two champs
Jun 15 2008, 11:09 AM

A lot of recent talk out in the blogosphere about how the NTRA should have aggressively marketed Curlin’s return to the US in yesterday’s Stephen Foster (here’s our friend Dana on the topic). I disagree. Well, truthfully, I halfway agree...

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Opportunity Knocks
Jun 12 2008, 10:38 AM

A subcommittee of the US House of Representatives has set June 19 as the date for a hearing titled, “Breeding, Drugs, and Breakdowns: The State of Thoroughbred Racing and the Welfare of the Thoroughbred Racehorse.” Not that the game is rigged...

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Tolstoy, Big Brown, and the Triple Crown
Jun 11 2008, 04:22 PM

“All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” So wrote Tolstoy in Anna Karenina, and the same can be said of Triple Crown aspirants: all of the 11 successful ones resemble each other, while the near...

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