Archive for 2003

Texas breeder Eileen Hartis, always on the lookout to improve her broodmare band, took a liking to mare in foal to Signal Tap that Fred Seitz had consigned for Rojan Mack Farms in the 1998 Keeneland November Breeding Stock sale…

I opened an e-mail from jockey agent Vince DeGregory on Tuesday morning. It said, “Eddie has officially retired today. You are the first to know.”…

Noble Threewitt arises at 2 a.m., shaves, showers and gulps coffee. By 4 a.m., he’s at a local shop buying doughnuts for his stable help and heading to Barn 14 on the Santa Anita backstretch…

Little Lady Tak…a pocket dynamo…takes the Fair Grounds Oaks by three!” exclaimed track announcer Michael Wrona, as she cruised towards the finish line. Her fifth straight victory, without ever tasting defeat…

The Hollywood crew that’s responsible for the upcoming “Seabiscuit” film apparently got bit by the racing bug in the process and have negotiated a deal to buy part of a Kentucky Derby contender…

The throng of 148,530 Thoroughbred racing aficionados packed into Churchill Downs on Saturday, witnessed the dreams of six high school buddies become reality, when Sakatoga Stable’s New York-bred gelding Funny Cide…

You say the saga of Funny Cide has inspired you and your friends to think about buying a thoroughbred racehorse? Well, there are plenty of people at the Fort Erie Race Track who can offer advice and encouragement…

A packed house of 101,864 racing aficionados, sports enthusiasts and well-wishers gathered at noon on a “haze gray” day in Elmont, New York hoping to see Funny Cide win the 135th running of the Belmont Stakes and capture the first Triple Crown in 25 years. As usual, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is…

Saratoga versus Del Mar, the debate reigns supreme. Saratoga certainly has the finest horses on the continent competing on a daily basis, but man does not live by horses alone…

Billed as “Africa’s greatest horse,” Ipi Tombe, foaled in 1998, is an attractive daughter of South African sire Manshood, an unraced son of Mr. Prospector, who stands at Gary Player Stud, owned by the golfing legend of the same name…