Chris McGrath
Contributing Writer at Freelance
Founder Tangowork, a digital consultancy. Also co-founder, ThoughtFarmer social intranet.
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1 week ago |
thoroughbreddailynews.com | Chris McGrath
Too much of a good thing? Not when it comes to maintaining the gold standard. For if we have only recently celebrated the way Medaglia d'Oro is confounding the self-fulfilling prejudice against aging stallions by continuing to produce runners like Good Cheer and East Avenue, then he now demands a sequel addressing his equal prowess in the kind of role more conventionally reserved for a stallion of 26–namely, as broodmare sire.
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1 week ago |
thoroughbreddailynews.com | Chris McGrath
Bill duPont's program today is much smaller than it was back in the 1980s, when he stood 15 stallions across three continents. Nonetheless all his experience keeps telling in a fashion very hard to emulate for anyone now trying to fill that kind of space. Under the banner of Pillar Properties Services Inc., duPont bred GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies runner-up Vodka With a Twist (Thousand Words) from a $6,000 mare.
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2 weeks ago |
thoroughbreddailynews.com | Chris McGrath
They had grown up together, the boy and his horse. Their bond was innate. In fact, he has been told that his mother was on horseback when her waters broke. That was how it was, up in the mountains. Most people couldn't afford cars, certainly not the type that might cope with those roads. “We lived in one of the most desolate villages in Puerto Rico,” Alberto Rullan recalls. “My dad had a small farm: coffee, bananas, plantains. And every night, I would round up the cattle into pens.
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2 weeks ago |
thoroughbreddailynews.com | Chris McGrath
No doubt about it, the folks at Hagyards seem to have found themselves a promising intern. Still early days, mind. Richard Holder has only been there 53 years. In fact, Dr. Holder believes himself the first beneficiary of an official internship at the storied Lexington firm, founded in 1876, albeit Dr. William McGee himself was evidently granted a similar opening, less formally, by Dr. Charles Hagyard in 1940.
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2 weeks ago |
thoroughbreddailynews.com | Chris McGrath
It is a prerogative of journalism–on the basis that most people won't read what you write, and that those that do will remember only what you get wrong–that you're allowed to repeat yourself. But fear not, I won't be returning to last week's soapbox other than to offer a vote of thanks to Mike McCarthy and his patrons for their willingness to explore whether a modern Thoroughbred is actually more resilient than the timid horsemen of our time generally allow us to see.
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