I met Sy Cohen at a Keeneland sale nearly 40 years ago. A student at the University of Kentucky, I considered myself–though young–an astute handicapper. Sy quickly let me know, in his typical blunt style, I didn't know crap about handicapping. He had started in the game handicapping for Miami newspapers and over the years [...]

Lil E. Tee had won the 1992 GI Kentucky Derby and his connections left the winner's circle. Trainer Lynn Whiting spotted me off to the side in the tunnel. He broke from the group for a brief moment. “Remember the day I called you,” Whiting said, chuckling and smiling broadly while shaking my hand. “Wouldn't [...]

Years ago, I did an extensive interview with Seth Hancock of Claiborne Farm. So extensive the piece ran in consecutive issues of The Blood-Horse. At one point, asked about how he conducted some of his business practices, Hancock looked up and said, simply, “I'm old school.” Anyone who has met Hancock knows that is true. [...]

A few years ago, we made the drive from Central Kentucky to Ellis Park to see one of our fillies make her first start. There, sitting in a chair on the apron and wearing a big straw hat, was Fred Bradley. Fred started running bets for his Dad at the tender age of six at [...]

We've all seen the statistics. We've studied them, debated them, and have our theories on them. Thoroughbreds make fewer starts today than in decades past. They make far fewer starts; noticeably fewer starts; alarmingly fewer starts. All of which makes it well worth noting the results of North America's graded stakes on Oct. 3, a [...]

About two-and-a-half hours after American Pharoah won the 2015 Kentucky Derby, a mare we own in partnership lay down and foaled a colt. Another dream began. [...]

Twice in recent editions of Thoroughbred Daily News there has been mention of a foal being a three-quarter sibling to another. [...]

I was more than a little intrigued by the Op-Ed piece published this week in TDN penned by John Fulton. The bloodstock agent brokered the private sale of a major horse and then watched as members of the media speculated on the name of the buyer and the purchase price. [...]

“Well, if Bayern holds on to win, he will come down,” I said just a few seconds into the running of the Breeders' Cup Classic Saturday at Santa Anita. [...]

It was inevitable. With a–shudder the thought–Cal-bred going for the Triple Crown, it figured “they” would come out of the woodwork. [...]

It was refreshing listening to Adam Silver Tuesday afternoon. The NBA had a problem, and it needed to deal with it swiftly and strongly. One of its owners, Donald Sterling, had been recorded making racist remarks. [...]

Two headlines in early April regarding Churchill Downs: * In Louisville Business First (based on a report by WFPL-FM), that the five highest-paid Churchill Downs Inc. (the parent company that owns the tracks, casinos and twinspires.com) executives collected a combined $27.9 million in compensation in 2013. * In the Louisville Courier-Journal, that Churchill Downs will [...]