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Zenyatta or Not, Horse Racing Faces Unstable Future

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The question never goes away, even at moments of the sport's greatest triumph and visibility. So it was asked again, this time of Zenyatta's trainer, two days before the latest super-horse shoots for career win No. 20 out of 20 tries in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs: How do you...

HausCast 16: Kentucky Derby Talk With Dick Jerardi

The FanHouse Podcast: Because bloggers are much sexier on the phone.The Kentucky Derby is upon us, and the folks at Xpressbet.com (the legal, licensed, no-fee way to play the races when you can't make it to the track!) were kind enough to lend us the expertise of Dick Jerardi, Philadelphia Daily News writer and winner of...

Barbaro, Eight Belles Shared an Ancestor: Are Native Dancer's Genes to Blame?

The racehorse Native Dancer, who won the Preakness and Belmont in 1953, was so successful after being put out to stud that thousands of thoroughbreds share him as a common ancestor. But since two of those thoroughbreds were Barbaro and Eight Belles, some horse racing observers are wondering whether Native Dancer is passing...

Checking in on Those New Saints

A lot of the Saints' success last year came from a massive overhaul of new blood and true competition; if you weren't Drew Brees, your job was up for grabs. The offense did well enough, and returned enough players, that the Saints were allowed to focus the majority of their free agent money on defense. All of last year's...

Horse Fans, Turn Away: Where Horseracing and Downhill Plummets Meet

The Wall Street Journal takes time off from breathlessly covering the market fluctuations today by taking note of an interesting, and divisive, horse race in Washington. The Omak Suicide Race is a 70-year-old horseback downhill sprint that simultaneously celebrates the participants' heritages as "horse-warriors" and...

Background on Barbaro

Barbaro (April 29, 2003 – January 29, 2007) was an American thoroughbred who decisively won the 2006 Kentucky Derby, but shattered his leg two weeks later in the 2006 Preakness Stakes, ending his racing career and eventually leading to his death.

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