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1 week ago | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Ken Snyder |Donn McClean |Ja McGrath
Our columnist is hoping the Pimlico Classic will receive its due for a change as it reaches a significant landmarkThe Preakness Stakes has a problem and there’s nothing that can be done about it; put bluntly, sparing no feelings, even in its historic anniversary year, its 150th running, the Preakness isn’t the Kentucky Derby or the Belmont Stakes, its more venerated Classic brethren. The Kentucky Derby is America’s greatest race, and only the Belmont can anoint a Triple Crown winner.
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1 month ago | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Laura King |Ken Snyder |Nicholas Godfrey
Interview with 13-time champion trainer in Scandinavia whose star filly qualified for the Kentucky Oaks with her success in the UAE Oaks at MeydanThe Scandinavian racing scene may be regarded as something of a backwater on the international stage. Not if the region’s 13-time champion trainer Niels Petersen has anything to do about it. however.
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1 month ago | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Ken Snyder |Nicholas Godfrey
Dual G1 winner, who joined US-based Graham Motion ahead of last year’s Breeders’ Cup, is set to contest Al Quoz Sprint at MeydanThere will be celebrations all over the world on April 5 if Isivunguvungu wins the Al Quoz Sprint on Dubai World Cup night at Meydan. That’s because the tongue-twistingly named sprinter – it means ‘storm’ in isiXhosa – was bred and is owned in South Africa, trained by a US-based Brit and will be ridden by a French-based Belgian.
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1 month ago | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Ken Snyder |Nicholas Godfrey
Everybody’s always looking for the next big thing. Ken Snyder turns the spotlight on the upwardly mobile 17-year-old apprentice who has dazzled at Oaklawn Park this winterWhen most six-year-old boys were wheeling around on bikes in their neighborhood, Tyler Bacon at the same age was riding ponies on a Crow Indian reservation in his home state of Montana. “We just did that all day until the sun went down. I was pretty much around horses my whole life,” says Bacon.
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2 months ago | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Ken Snyder |Donn McClean |Ja McGrath
Whisper it, but the ‘D-word’ is on our microshare owner’s lips as his pride and joy Caldera moves into the big league in Sunday’s Sunland Park DerbyNo, hell did not freeze over, as far as I know. There have been no reports of pigs flying or ants singing opera either. Despite none of these things happening (a frozen hell is still on the table, of course) a horse in which I own a microshare under the MyRacehorse banner, Caldera, won a race.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Laura King |Ken Snyder |Nicholas Godfrey
Laura King speaks to the leading rider, who has been riding out for UAE champion trainer Bhupat Seemar ahead of her return to race-riding after a career-threatening injuryMarch 2012: around 100 journalists and photographers are at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, their eyes and lenses trained on the horses on the track. Then a girl arrives, wearing a bright pink body protector and helmet with a pink bobble. Suddenly, all the focus is on her.
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Dec 11, 2024 | thoroughbredracing.com | Laura King |Ken Snyder |Nicholas Godfrey
Laura King speaks to the leading rider, who has been riding out for UAE champion trainer Bhupat Seemar ahead of her return to race-riding after a career-threatening injuryMarch 2012: around 100 journalists and photographers are at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, their eyes and lenses trained on the horses on the track. Then a girl arrives, wearing a bright pink body protector and helmet with a pink bobble. Suddenly, all the focus is on her.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
thoroughbredracing.com | Ken Snyder |Laura King |Nicholas Godfrey
Interview with one-time leading apprentice set to ride at Oaklawn’s lucrative winter-spring meet after taking the plunge and quitting Britain when a series of major blows derailed a promising career at homeThe late great Yogi Berra, more famous for a motherlode of malaprops than a Hall of Fame baseball career, once said: “If there’s a fork in the road, take it.”Like most ‘Yogi-isms’, there’s wit and sometimes a smidgeon of wisdom.
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Dec 4, 2024 | thoroughbredracing.com | Ken Snyder |Laura King |Nicholas Godfrey
Interview with one-time leading apprentice set to ride at Oaklawn’s lucrative winter-spring meet after taking the plunge and quitting Britain when a series of major blows derailed a promising career at homeThe late great Yogi Berra, more famous for a motherlode of malaprops than a Hall of Fame baseball career, once said: “If there’s a fork in the road, take it.”Like most ‘Yogi-isms’, there’s wit and sometimes a smidgeon of wisdom.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
tinnitist.com | Ken Snyder
A decade ago I decided it would be cool to change my Facebook profile photo to a different “awful album cover” every single day for a year. Since then, I see many of those same covers used in social media posts over and over again. But have you ever heard the actual albums? With one exception, I haven’t. So I set out to fix that, and share my findings with you. I’ll start with the one I know: Rod Stewart’s debut album.
