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Some of my closest contemporaries have been nominated for the Hall of Fame this year…

Derby season is in full stride and this week, racing fans across the country will be selecting their stables in the popular Road to the Roses online contest put on by Churchill Downs…

“A fool and his money are soon parted”…

New Year’s Day brings a whole new class of sophomore Thoroughbreds and a plethora of Kentucky Derby hopefuls…

In case you were out of touch Thanksgiving weekend, Gary Stevens retired from the saddle on the closing day of Churchill Downs’ fall meeting…

Brant Laue has been around quality cattle and Quarter Horses his whole life. A third generation rancher, who is a family partner in Laue Charolais Ranch, a 2000-acre spread in Washington County, Kansas, Laue recalls sitting around the dinner table as kid, discussing the matings of the ranch’s champions…

Don’t wake up yet, the dream is just starting. “I thought he could be third, then I thought he could be second, and by the time he was in midstretch, I realized he could win…

At the very best, Thoroughbred horse trainers and jockeys tolerate one another. Their relationships, based on co-dependency, are often more volatile than a Hollywood marriage…

In March of 2004, a three-year-old gelding by Tinner’s Way from the Black Tie Affair mare Black Tie Dancer, made his racing debut in a $25,000 maiden claiming race at Gulfstream Park. Bred in Kentucky by Richard and Yvette Wira, the chestnut named Lil Red…

Famed California horseman and frozen pie king Elwood Johnston was fond of saying, “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” “Pieman” would have loved John O’Meara…