Archive for 2007

Karen Keen’s 2-year-old filly Silk Ridge has emerged as the clear leader of her crop developed at Calder this summer after impressive victories in the $100,000 Desert Vixen and $150,000 Susan’s Girl Divisions of the Florida Stallion Stakes series last out on Sept. 1, and remains on course to bid for a sweep in the […]

September 18, 2007 – International bloodstock agent of note, Dan Kenny, has come up with a new marketing slogan for Del Mar – “Where the Poly meets the trolley”

September 16, 2007 – Seen at Keeneland Simulcasting: A punter sporting a PSYCHO-BITCH MAGNET t-shirt.

September 15, 2007 – If you want to laugh your ass off check out www.indiancharlie.com.

September 14, 2007 – Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas was using a Segway to get around the massive Keeneland barn area Thursday. It must be hard to “see the cat” as you zip by Taylor Made’s barn like a spaceman attired in slacks and a sweater vest.

By Jude T. Feld For the last 100 years, members of my family have been frequenting racetracks across North America and the Caribbean. I would say that those of us alive as I write this are all if not expert handicappers, more than comfortable reading the past performances. We are “students of the game,” as […]

By: Michele Blanco (Director of Media Relations for Calder Race Course) Fans of the National Football League know Moe Williams as a former running back who played for nine seasons with the Minnesota Vikings and one season with the Baltimore Ravens. Now fans of Thoroughbred horse racing recognize him as a winning trainer after he […]

By Gene Williams Richard MandellaBenoit Photo Don’t rush them. Make them show you what they can do. Don’t kid yourself. And remember they’re the ones who are going to race, not you. Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella sees it that way when it comes to preparing a two-year-old for a major juvenile stakes race […]

August 20, 2007 – “You could start running her pedigree on your computer, go to lunch, and when you came back it would still be printing.” D. Wayne Lukas

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