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  • Zenyatta Makes It 17

    Every year a number of top fillies and mares, three years old and older, make their way to the Hollywood Park Racecourse in California to participate in the Vanity Invitational Handicap. This ...

  • Summer Bird Retires from Horse Racing

    With the magnificent Birdstone (winner of the 2004 Belmont Stakes) as his sire, and out of the mare Hong Kong Squall, there were high hopes for race horse Summer Bird. During his career he did ...

  • Gold Rush Fever

    Now that the elimination races are over, drivers and their horses are getting ready for the Gold Rush, which will be held on Saturday, 28 June 2008, at Georgian Downs. Calling this horse racing ...

  • Kentucky Derby Museum

    Churchill Downs Racecourse is home to one of the most prestigious thoroughbred horse racing events on the racing calendar, namely the Kentucky Derby. This event forms part of the Triple Crown ...

  • Luck – Revealing the Multi-Faceted World of Horseracing

    Often referred to as the "Sport of Kings", horseracing has had more than its share of controversy during its history. Today, with casinos collaborating with the horseracing industry, and ...

  • Canadian Hall of Fame Nominees

    On the 20th of May, the names of the inductees to the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame will be announced. Until then, the twenty-two nominees will have to wait patiently to find out if their ...

  • Pitman Wins National Trainers’ Premiership

    Michael Pitman has been a trainer for twenty-nine years and has worked with some of the best horses New Zealand has to offer. His patience and passion for horse racing finally paid off when it ...

  • Horse Racing Analysis as a Top Winning Technique

    Video replays add greatly to the traditional method of close observation of horse racing events to pick future winners. Connoisseurs of the sport have always delighted at spotting significant ...

  • Cheltenham Countdown: Dark Horses

    Champagne Fever – A Willie Mullins bumper horse. 'Enough said', I hear you say. Always well regarded after his Point to Point win, he finished second to Thomas Eddison (subsequently bought by JP ...

  • Euroears a Hot New Favorite

    Euroears is now a seven-year-old veteran of the horse racing industry, and was bred in Kentucky. He began his career with six magnificent consecutive victories, but started raking in various ...

  • Swiss Style Horse Racing

    Though the Swiss have been attached to horses since Roman times, horse racing in the country has begun to come of age only of late. The Swiss Trotting Federation (STF) has almost 500 members and ...

  • Long Striders – Champions or Duds?

    The long striding racehorse is somewhat of a contradiction in racing circles; from this type of horse we get the two extremes of racehorses, the all-time champions and the one paced snails. Why ...

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