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  • BHA’s New Chief Faces Funding and Whip-Rule Issues

    Having worked at the old British Horseracing Board, as well as holding senior posts in New Zealand racing and his home-country of Australia, Paul Bittar brings a wealth of hands-on experience to ...

  • Retirement Upset in Ireland

    The horse racing community in Ireland has just been trying to recover from the news that purses will be cut for the coming 2009 racing season, which has also led to the renovations at Curragh ...

  • Proposed Track for Dayton

    The residents of Dayton are excited about Penn National Gaming’s proposal to construct a horse racing track in the town. Even though the residents are already sold on the idea, it will be up to ...

  • How Amateur Riding Clubs Bring Horse Racing to the Whole Family

    Horse racing can extend in to an exhilarating form of recreation for the whole family. The term conjures images of race tracks and bookmakers, but love for animals and enjoyable outdoor time of ...

  • Preparation Victory for Casino Drive

    Casino Drive is viewed as one of the horses capable of putting pressure on both Big Brown and Curlin in the upcoming Breeders’ Cup Classic. The unbeaten three year old has shown magnificent ...

  • Purebred Arabian Racing Dreams

    The Dubai International Arabian Race Day was held for the first time in 1982 at Kempton, and on Sunday the 20th of July 2008 approximately eighteen thousand spectators filled the grandstands at ...

  • Silver Birch – Unexpected Grand National Champion

    At 33-1 odds, no-one would have thought that Silver Birch stood a change in winning the Grand National. Which proves that you should never underestimate any horse that enters such a prestigious ...

  • Sovereign Duty is made for Steeplechase

    William S. Farish Jr., from Kentucky, bred Sovereign Duty from the magnificent Nijinsky II mare, Duty Dance. With his unmistakably superior genes, everyone thought that he would become a ...

  • 400 Years of Horse Racing History

    The Newmarket area in London has witnessed horse racing since the 17th century. It continues to be a major center for the sport of horce racing and horse racing history to this day, which must ...

  • The Tin Man – The Heart of a Champion

    The Tin Man is well-known descendant of a few noteworthy racehorses, and some might say that he was born to run. But genes have nothing to do with the fact that at the age of nine, when other ...

  • Galileo’s Filly Fetches Record Price

    Retired to stud in October 2001, the racehorse Galileo continues to make the news from time to time, the most recent being related to the price tag of a filly he sired. The as yet unnamed filly ...

  • And the Winner is… Harlem Rocker!

    On Sunday 13 July 2008, a field of seven horses got ready for the running of the $500 000 Prince of Wales Stakes. Known as the second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, many spectators were ...

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