This from the English gentleman Terence Collier, Director of Marketing at Fasig-Tipton: "We had a two-year-olds in training sale at Saratoga around ten years ago. The undertack show was held in blazing sunshine and we all sat on the grass...
FEED PRICES UP THIS YEAR
Soon we'll be seeing trailer-loads of horses coming back here for the summer. They have to eat and the costs for feed have risen substantially from last year. At HOOSIC VALLEY FARMER'S EXCHANGE the cost of a 50 lb. bag...
NEW YORK HORSE PARK
My apologies for all the dead time since my last blog ... were I a horse I would have been diagnosed with RHINO and pumped full with SMZ. As it was I had bronchitis and then pneumonia, with a hospital...
UNCLE MO and the KENTUCKY DERBY
While we in Saratoga were having our typical mid-February cold and overcast days Eclipse Award-winning 2-year-old UNCLE MO was working out in balmy Boynton Beach after some time off at a farm in Ocala. A few days ago he galloped...
ZENYATTA TO BREED; HORSES IN CAIRO; HORSES IN WINTER
ZENYATTA, 2010 Horse of the Year, will be bred to BERNARDINI for her first mating. Bernardini was the 2006 Champion 3-year-old and is 2010's leading freshman sire by numbers of stakes winners. The $75,000 stud fee is not necessarily on...
FEW FEMALE JOCKEYS
It's only good fortune that allows me to drive up East Avenue every day, with the Fasig-Tipton stalls on my right and the Oklahoma track on my left ... I can't really see much of it because we've...
ZENYATTA 2010 ECLIPSE HORSE OF THE YEAR
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National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
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