The December TDN Weekend is now available by clicking here. This month, we're proud to feature our video conversation with Bob Duncan, who has worked on the starting gate at the NYRA for 50 years, as well as in private practice, and has brought methods of natural horsemanship to the job that has changed the [...]

The following is part of a series in which we have posed the question above to a number of racing industry participants. The only rule is that you cannot choose your own boss. ERIC HAMELBACK, CEO NATIONAL HBPA: John Nerud When asked to write in the Thoroughbred Daily News the person I most admire, I [...]

Each year's breeding stock sales are eagerly awaited by stallion farms looking to answer the question asked two years earlier when the top sires of that year retired to stud: how will they be received in the marketplace? This week's sales have brought good news to a wide variety of farms standing stallions at a [...]

Recently, 34-year-old Norman Casse, assistant to his father, Mark, announced that come next spring after a decade working for his dad, he will head out on his own. The graduate of Bellarmine University, a private Catholic school in Louisville, Kentucky, is leaving the stable on a high note, after a year capped off by World [...]

Just before landing in Barbados, you look down and think that the sight you see below you could be a racetrack if only it weren't shaped like a triangle. And then you realize…it's a racecourse, shaped like a triangle. That's just one of the many charms of the place you'll discover in this month's TDN [...]

On August 1, after a longtime stint at Adena Springs, Cormac Breathnach took up a role in stallion nominations at Airdrie Stud. Breathnac's arrival is not the only change at the dynamic farm, which has acquired at least one new stallion to stand at stud in each of the past four years, recently adding American [...]

He's the son of an economist who also happens to be a former United States Senator and a one-time candidate for the Republican nomination for he presidency. Marshall Gramm did follow his father's path, at least when it comes to economics. The younger Gramm is an economics professor at Rhodes College in Memphis. But he [...]

When Corey Johnsen and Ray Reid took over Kentucky Downs in 2007, they were handed the reins of a track that had had financial problems and was little more than a blip on the radar when it came to the national racing scene. Today, Johnsen, the president and part-owner of Kentucky Downs, oversees a meet [...]

Keeneland is unique in that it is both a sales company and a racetrack, which means its president and CEO Bill Thomason must be well versed in just about all aspects of the sport. Thomason took over the head roles in 2012 and his steady leadership has allowed Keeneland to maintain its place as one [...]

The inaugural success of the Pegasus World Cup quickly gave birth to its Southern Hemisphere counterpart, the Everest at Royal Randwick October 14. Vicky Leonard tells us that the biggest hurdle for first-time visitors just might be the language, from smashed avo to snags. Her Sydney primer is a gem.   Back home in the USA, [...]

They say timing is everything. It was early 2016, and Camille Vercken, the longtime head of the Syndicat des Eleveurs, the French Thoroughbred Breeders Association, decided it was time to move her young family from Paris to their home in Normandy. Just one year later, she has not only made the move, but has completed [...]

At the root of the vast economic machine that is the global horse racing business rest some simple maxioms: Breed the best to the best. My horse is faster than your horse. Sometimes, just when you're feeling a little bit like Charlie Brown in his Christmas special–overcome by the commercial aspects of the thing– you're [...]