Thoroughbred Racing

It's amazing how many horse racing terms and idioms have snuck into every day speech. Here are a few.

Another "Bird" won the Belmont Stakes. Summer Bird, the half brother of Mine That Bird showed that Birdstone is passing along serious speed and stamina to his prodigy.

Back in April, the Jockey Club introduced a free tattoo identification service to help owners identify tattooed but unknown Thoroughbreds.

Cyclone Larry a 3-year old Thoroughbred born and raised in Western South Dakota and then trained at the North Dakota Horse Park has been chosen to play Secretariat in the Disney Movie due out next summer.

I knew that there had been some trouble before yesterday's Breeders Cup but I didn't find video of it until today. Zenyatta was sticky going into the starting gate but Quality Road threw a full blown tantrum.

Rachel Alexandra continues to amaze. Her win in the $750,000 Woodward Stakes was against the boys . . . and against older horses. She is the first filly ever to win the Woodward Stakes.

If you've always thought your horse looked a lot like racing great Secretariat, here's your chance to find out if he makes the grade. He doesn't even need to be fast.

The 9th race at Saratoga on August 22nd was a nail biter. The first six place finishers crossed the wire together, with the difference between first place and sixth place only a neck. Talk about a photo finish!

Going to the racetrack to by an Off-The-Track Thoroughbred (OTTB) can be daunting. It’s busy, it’s crowded, you can’t ride the horse and trainers want you to make a decision after they’ve walked or trotted it up and down the shed row.

Quality Road, the colt that broke through the starting gate at the Breeders Cup ended up with quite a set of scrapes and bruises including stitches, a laceration and big bruise over one eye, and a large hemotoma on his leg. He also almost knocked out one of his teeth.