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Robert La Penta may be a relative newcomer to the horse racing industry, but already he is sitting on the cusp of competing in America’s most prestigious race, the Kentucky Derby, with morning line favorite The Cliff’s Edge…

For hundreds of years Thoroughbred racing has been called the “sport of kings.” When the sport first began, only kings and princes could afford to own racing stables. Gradually, with the passing of time, the faces and bank accounts of racing’s participants have changed…

Outside, the rain comes down in sheets, crashing off the tin roof in a deafening roar. Inside, Jim Orr can’t hear the other horses in the long rows of stalls at Reber Ranch. All he can hear is his horse’s labored breathing. He tugs gently at the halter. “C’mon Norm, let’s get turned around. Let’s go home”…

The Ferdinand family line will live on thanks to U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky) who has purchased three daughters of the late Kentucky Derby (G1) winner and champion. Ferdinand died sometime in 2002, most likely in a slaughterhouse in Japan, following an unsuccessful career at stud…

On the first Sunday of February, before Beyonce belts out the national anthem, Jake Delhomme will take to the field in Houston’s Reliant Stadium for Superbowl XXXVIII. Star quarterback for the Carolina Panthers, Delhomme got to the Superbowl the old-fashioned way – he earned it…

A new course at Hofstra University examines in detail the benefits and risks of racehorse ownership as an alternative investment vehicle…

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…