This hilarious article was featured in the New York Times Online yesterday: A Pampered Champion’s Finicky Taste. And I just had to share.
2002 Kentucky Derby winner War Emblem is apparently facing a little performance anxiety - or he’s just unusually picky - now that he’s started his second career as a stud. According the NY [...]

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Hopeful owners, trainers, and jockeys are sending horses to prep races and hoping that their 2008 Kentucky Derby odds will be good. Handicappers, bettors, and fans in general are watching the prep races to see who is most likely to take the 134th Run For the Roses. And every year it’s in the back [...]

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On March 30, 1970, exactly 13 years to the day before I was born, the greatest racehorse of all time was born. The big red colt named Secretariat is probably one of the most well-known thoroughbred racehorses of all time, even now, 35 years after he won the Triple Crown.
We are currently in the “Run [...]

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