Money and the message
Jeremy Plonk, Special to ESPN.comYou want to cut 30 percent out of your post-race testing budget? Run 30 percent fewer races and make sure the 70 percent you keep are held to the highest standards possible.
Story | Conversation | December 03, 2009The Usual Q.T. wins Hollywood Derby
Steve Andersen, Daily Racing FormA winning streak that began in a maiden race for statebreds at Del Mar in August shows no sign of ending for The Usual Q.T.
Story | Conversation | November 29, 2009Turf rivals reunite for derby
Steve Andersen, Daily Racing FormThe California colt Battle of Hastings won two Grade 2 stakes for 3-year-olds in Virginia during the summer, the Colonial Turf Cup and Virginia Derby.
Story | Conversation | November 27, 2009Three to be thankful for
Jeremy Plonk, Special to ESPN.comThanksgiving means much more than getting out a nail punch from the tool shed and expanding your leather belt by a notch. It's a time to reflect and appreciate as much as anything; and those of us who work in, and enjoy, the horse racing industry truly have been blessed in 2009.
Story | Conversation | November 23, 2009NYRA bans trainer Mullins for six months
Matt Hegarty, Daily Racing FormCalifornia-based trainer Jeff Mullins will be prohibited from starting a horse at the New York Racing Association's Aqueduct racetrack for the next six months.
Story | Conversation | October 30, 2009The Book of Basketball
Bill Simmons, Special to ESPN.comIn an excerpt from "The Book of Basketball," Bill explains how the ABA-NBA merger set off a crazy storm of events.
Story | Conversation | October 21, 2009Shadwell Mile scouting report
Tim Turrell, HorseplayerPro.comThe prestigious Shadwell Mile has always been a key prep for the Breeders' Cup Mile and this year's edition boasts a solid field of nine.
Story | Conversation | October 09, 2009Two stand out in TCA Stakes
Byron King, Daily Racing FormThe Grade 2, $250,000 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes on the undercard presents few unknowns.
Story | Conversation | October 09, 2009Justenuffhumor tries for a better start
Marty McGee, Daily Racing FormJustenuffhumor has the hard part down pat. It's one of the seemingly easier things -- leaving the starting gate -- that's another matter.
Story | Conversation | October 09, 2009Field rounding out for Goodwood
Steve Andersen, Daily Racing FormInformed, the winner of two graded stakes this year in California, and the English import Gitano Hernando will start in the $350,000 Goodwood Stakes at Santa Anita next Saturday, a major prep for the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic here on Nov. 7.
Story | Conversation | October 02, 2009Rendezvous upsets Del Mar Derby
Steve Andersen, Daily Racing FormRendezvous nipped Battle of Hastings in the final stride to win Sunday's $350,000 Del Mar Derby, a race overshadowed by an injury to Oceanside Stakes winner Afleet Eagle, who was pulled up on the final turn.
Story | Conversation | September 06, 2009Carlsbad breaks Del Mar track record
Steve Andersen, Daily Racing FormCarlsbad won the sixth stakes of her career and first against older fillies and mares in Friday's $200,000 Rancho Bernardo Handicap at Del Mar.
Story | Conversation | September 05, 2009Your Hoops Quiz Questions Have Been Answered
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...or two and managed to come up with just about all of them (with apologies to Jeff Mullins and Robert Reid). The answers are in. I have updated each photo with its proper identifying...
Blog | September 03, 2008Who Is That Guy? Hoops Quiz Question #6
Henry Abbott, TrueHoop...on the left, right out of the gate. Nobody ever got the guy in the middle: Jeff Mullins.
Blog | September 02, 2008Battle of Hastings up at wire
Marty McGee, Daily Racing FormBattle of Hastings pinned another agonizing defeat on Straight Story when getting up in the final jumps to post a head triumph Saturday in the Grade 2, $750,000 Virginia Derby at Colonial Downs.
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