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Sid Fernando: Observations on Racing and Breeding and Youth Baseball

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Observations on Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding and Youth Baseball

Added on: Jan 18th, 2009
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Sid Fernando
Listed in: Baseball Sports

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Email message to Sheikh Mohammed sent @9:00am today

Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 08:15 in racing, breeding, people, sales, chechnya, mares, horse sales, ramzan kadyrov, stallions, sheikh mohammed, ematings, sulim yamadayev

Your Highness: Mr. Ramzan Kadyrov, president of Chechnya, raced a stable in Dubai last winter. Will his stable be welcome this year, given that Lt. Gen. Tamim has placed Mr. Adam Delimkhanov, Mr. Kadyrov’s right-hand man, on Interpol as the pri...
John Ferguson missing at Keeneland but spotted in Dubai

Posted on Wednesday November 11th, 2009 at 12:45 in racing, breeding, people, sales, mares, horse sales, keeneland, stallions, fasig-tipton, john ferguson, giselle davies, sheikh mohammed

The Kentucky mixed-sale season started yesterday in Lexington at Keeneland and Fasig-Tipton and numbers, as expected, were down across the board at both venues. Foreign buyers, here to take advantage of the weakness of the dollar, were prominent, wit...
Steve Haskin, ‘hack,’ was the butt of joke, subject of story

Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 20:11 in hacks, hack, racing, breeding, people, sales, mares, horse sales, stallions, steve haskin, ematings, henry cecil

Jessica N. Chapel, new media expert, journalist, blogger, web designer, and Brooklyn resident (like me) has a sense of humor and a good memory. You need both to live in Brooklyn. She’d read a humorous Steve Haskin piece in bloodhorse.com recen...
Zenyatta doppelgangers: Personal Ensign (13), Colin (15)

Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 16:38 in racing, breeding, people, sales, colin, new york times, mares, horse sales, stallions, zenyatta, winning colors, personal ensign

Wedged between Colin’s perfect record of 15 wins (1908) and Personal Ensign’s 13 (1988) is Zenyatta’s 14 (2009). Both Personal Ensign and Zenyatta ended their careers in dramatic signature races, both at the Breeders’ Cup, bo...
Left at the Gate blog: Joe Drape’s “delightful” Times read

Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 07:49 in racing, breeding, people, sales, new york times, mares, horse sales, stallions, joe drape, breeders' cup classic, ematings, glenn craven

Not everyone’s down on the New York Times and its racing writer, Joe Drape. The Left at the Gate blog is pleased with Mr. Drape’s Breeders’ Cup Classic coverage (see opposing view below, and, No, it’s not from Glenn Craven!): ...
O’Keefe: Lack of racing coverage in US press is the killer

Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 22:28 in racing, breeding, people, sales, huffington post, mares, horse sales, stallions, ematings, racing coverage

The New York Times? I opened that paper this morning to find a whopping 200+ words devoted to the most memorable Thoroughbred race of the last decade. That’s half the coverage the Times gave the Harvard-Columbia game and a fraction of what it d...