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NYRA Steps Up For Retired Racehorses
At a Sept. 1 summit presented by the New York State Gaming Commission on racehorse aftercare, the New York Racing Association pledged that it would donate $5 per start at its tracks to the Thoroughbred...
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Spa Diary: Kieron Magee’s Games Begin
Photo credit Jim McCue/Maryland Jockey Club When Jack O Liam left New York in March, the 3-year-old son of Lookin At Lucky was a maiden. A veteran of six races in which he’d never been better than...
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Adopting an OTTB and a slaughterhouse near-miss: Is perfection the enemy of...
L’Animaux, now known as Animal, in his Missouri paddock. Photo: Eileen Rectenwald Foster In early March, Emily Daignault-Salvaggio logged onto Facebook and saw that her friend Bev Strauss, the...
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Special Delivery: Fox Hill’s Barefoot Mailman finds a new career in show ring
Photo courtesy of Cinthia Ane McGreevy Two years ago, on the advice of bloodstock agent Tom McGreevy, Fox Hill Farm’s Rick Porter entered the bidding fray in the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion at the...
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This week at Saratoga, 2016: Week of August 1
We’ve been spoiled. Over the last few years, the rain has avoided Saratoga like a gambler avoids an overbet bad favorite, but over the last few days, the wet stuff has descended like punters on a...
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OTTB to the Olympics: Blackfoot Mystery Goes for the Gold in Rio
Boyd Martin (left) and John O’Meara with Blackfoot Mystery. Credit: United States Equestrian Federation The Olympics are as much about stories as they are about competition. The athlete who overcame...
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For Groomedforvictory, A Well-Deserved Retirement
Photo courtesy of Cathy Gulick Sanders There is a Genaro family tradition of heading to the harness track in Saratoga on the Saturday after Thanksgiving for an afternoon of simulcasting, and in 2007, I...
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Songster Returns to the Spa
Used with permission On July 31, 2006, a 3-year-old black horse named Songster made his Saratoga debut in the Grade 2 Amsterdam Stakes. The Darley-owned colt was already a graded stakes winner: he...
View ArticleA Dream Come True: Old Friends at Cabin Creek
At 9 A.M. on a chilly Saturday morning, the farm at first seems quiet. The parking lot is largely empty, devoid of visitors who will begin to arrive soon after the noon opening, and on first glance, it...
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Whitmore: Part Of The Moquett Family
NYRA/Coglianese/Chelsea Durand photo Lots of people consider their pets part of their families. And while a racehorse might not exactly fit into the category of “pet,” that doesn’t change how trainer...
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