Taylor Made's Duncan Taylor arrived in Deauville on Wednesday ahead of the debut yearling consignment of Gouffern Taylor Made Sales at Arqana August this weekend, where they will offer four colts by Giant's Causeway, Gutaifan (Ire), The Gurkha (Ire) and Iffraaj (GB). TDN Publisher Sue Finley caught up with him on Thursday. SF: What has [...]

In my 10th year of French studies, I took a year-long course in translation. Whenever a student would ask, “but why do they say `I have 18 years' instead of `I am 18 years old?'” the teacher's answer was the same: Because French is not English using different words. In other words, just accept it. [...]

Magic Dance (More Than Ready), the TDN Rising Star who stumbled at the start of the GII Adirondack S. at Saratoga Sunday, sustained a bone bruise in her left front leg in the incident and will be off for an undetermined amount of time, according to her trainer, Steve Asmussen. “It was a result of [...]

One of the many positives about Godolphin Flying Start-the two-year international Thoroughbred industry training program devised by Sheikh Mohammed-is that it offers a way into the business for talented young people without pre-existing family or industry connections. If, indeed, that is an unstated goal of the project, it showed that it had hit the mark [...]

After experiencing stroke symptoms, Jim McIngvale spent the night in a Houston, Texas hospital, where he streamed about his experience on Facebook Live. McIngvale was taken to the hospital with tingling in his face and arms, and a slight slurring of speech. He spent 23 minutes on Facebook, updating friends and well-wishers about his condition. “Hi, [...]

Of all the terrible things that mankind has inflicted upon one another, there is none so terrible as war. Estimates of the total number of people killed in war in the history of the world range up to a billion lives, and for the combatants, oftentimes just surviving the conflict seems like the goal. But [...]

John Ed Anthony, who operated Loblolly Stables in the 70s, 80s and 90s, and who now races 15-20 horses and keeps a broodmare band in Arkansas and Kentucky, joined the Water Hay Oats Alliance, according to a press release from the organization. “Over the last few weeks I have read with interest the articles about [...]

War of Will (War Front)'s owner Gary Barber issued a press release Tuesday night in response to what he says are claims Gary West made on Fox News accusing War of Will of causing the interference in Saturday's Kentucky Derby that led to Maximum Security (New Year's Day)'s disqualification. West repeated those claims to the [...]

Gary West made several revelations on the Today Show this morning in a live appearance shortly after 7:30 Eastern Daylight Time, among them: Maximum Security (New Year's Day) will not run in the Preakness, he will file an appeal today with the Kentucky State Racing Commission, and that he feels Churchill Downs is `greedy' to [...]

Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 169 entries for its inaugural Santa Anita Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale to be held Wednesday, June 5 in Arcadia, California. The sale, which will be conducted in Santa Anita Park’s historic walking ring, will begin at 1 p.m. PDT. The under-tack show is scheduled for Monday, June 3, and begin at 10 [...]

Headley Bell and his son Price have long understood how critical it is to let the outside world into Kentucky's Thoroughbred farms; to expose that culture and lifestyle to the general public so that they better understand and appreciate it. As two of the founding members of Horse Country, and perhaps its biggest cheerleaders, the [...]

TDN Publisher and CEO Sue Morris Finley caught up with National Thoroughbred Racing Association President and CEO Alex Waldrop to get his take on the hot-button issues being discussed by industry participants in the wake of a rash of breakdowns at Santa Anita. SF: Do you feel like we're at a crucial crossroads right now, [...]