LAS VEGAS, NV.–Jonathon Kinchen is maybe the closest thing the handicapping world has to a rock star. In little more than four years, Kinchen has gone from an unknown real estate investor with little tournament experience to a commentator on Fox Sports' Saturday at the Races. He's arguably the most recognizable and popular player at [...]

A near-record field of 670 entries are set to battle it out this weekend in Las Vegas at the 20th NTRA National Horseplayers Championship, presented by Racetrack Television Network, STATS Race Lens and Treasure Island Las Vegas. On the line is $2.9 million in cash and awards, as well as bragging rights as the Eclipse [...]

Headlining the Keeneland January Sale this year is the 2017 Eclipse Award champion 3-year-old filly, Abel Tasman, who sells as hip 288 during the auction's opening session this coming Monday. We went out to visit the mare at Taylor Made Farm last week and to talk to Mark Taylor about the six-time Grade I winner's [...]

It has become commonplace to see Kitten's Joy's name not just atop the leading sires of turf runners, but in the top five on the general sire list. This year, he had to come from behind to win the title after Candy Ride's Gun Runner picked up a cool $7 million in the Pegasus World [...]

Two weeks ago, Ken Ramsey was sitting with family in his lower-level season seats at Rupp Arena, watching the Wildcats, when a cousin made a pitch about a 51-day cruise he was planning. “We got talking about it, and he just begged me to go on this cruise,” said Ramsey. “He brought the itinerary, showed [...]

Ocala horseman Bert Pilcher figured a clever way to breed a Breeders' Cup favorite. Take a free mare, a free stallion season, foal an undersized pocket rocket dismissed by many, and turn loose one of the fastest horses we've seen in some time. That's the story of Imperial Hint (Imperialism), who has belied an unfashionable [...]

Thanks to his name and hulking physical paired with ample ability, The Big Beast was a racehorse who was hard to forget. Campaigned by JoAnn and Alex Lieblong, the bay captured the GI King's Bishop S. and placed second in both the GI Alfred G. Vanderbilt H. and GI Forego S. at Saratoga before retiring [...]

With 24 yearlings entered in the OBS October Yearling Sale, and a $5,000 stud fee, Khozan will be one of the more closely watched first-crop yearling sires at the upcoming OBS sale. The $350,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga and $1-million Fasig-Tipton Florida Select 2-year-old graduate certainly had precocity on his side. Lucas Marquardt headed over to Journeyman [...]

Lane's End Farm's Twirling Candy has enjoyed a breakout year in 2018, currently ranking second behind only Uncle Mo among all fourth-crop sires by earnings. Not only does he have a bonafide top-notch Breeders' Cup contender in female sprint ace Finley'sluckycharm, but he also recently received a boost when his 2-year-old son Trophy Chaser romped [...]

Last month at Fasig-Tipton Saratoga, Taylor Made Sales topped the sale with a WinStar Farm-bred son by Medaglia d'Oro out of Coco's Wildcat. Taylor Made Sales will offer almost one-tenth of the Keeneland September catalogue, a full 440 yearlings. We talked to Mark Taylor about Taylor Made's partnerships with top breeders, and gave him the [...]

From the remarkable rise of Into Mischief (Harlan's Holiday) to the top of the stallion ranks to the presence of his four-time champion half-sister Beholder (Henny Hughes) in her new career as a broodmare, 2018 is an exciting time to be at Spendthrift Farm. Fresh off the graded stakes success of Into Mischief's scintillating 'TDN [...]

Young trainer Jack Sisterson, a former assistant to prominent names in racing such as Doug O'Neill and Todd Pletcher, set out on his own with a Keeneland-based string earlier this year and won his first race Aug. 12 when Calumet Farm homebred Next Dance (Oxbow) won her debut in a Belterra Park maiden race. As [...]