Horse racing Horse racing. Godolphin by ready or not 06 May 2007 I've not posted on here since the changes have been made but would just like the boards opinions on the shambles that have become the godolphin team 300 horses and they cannot find a horse worthy enough to put in a respectable show in either of the first two classics. Godolphin by ready or not 06 May 2007 I've not posted on here since the changes have been made but would just like the boards opinions on the shambles that have...

A North Dakota company announced today that its horse feed supplement was used in efforts to rehabilitate the late Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro and that the company will donate a portion of all Internet sales of the product to equine research. The injury was complicated when Barbaro developed laminitis, an extremely painful inflammation of the tissue that holds the animal s leg bone to its hoof. ND company plans donations to equine research. SweetPro, based in Walhalla, N. The company...

The starting line Most saddlebreds, which unlike thoroughbreds are mostly used for show, can trace their ancestry to one or both of two prolific stallions: Harrison Chief or Gaines Denmark, both of which came from families descending from Messenger, a thoroughbred who prolifically bred more than 120 mares a year. The starting line Most saddlebreds, which unlike thoroughbreds are mostly used for show, can trace their ancestry to one or both of two prolific stallions: Harrison Chief or...

It's the biggest spectacle in horse racing, but with 20 3-year-old thoroughbreds crammed side-by-side on a track usually occupied by half that many horses, it's a bit different. They would excuse themselves from the Pi Kappa Alpha house in the mid-1980s, telling their brothers they were going to the library for mandatory study hall hours. He employs 150 people who train almost 200 horses at eight different farms around the country. Pletcher, who got his trainer's license in December 1995...

Most people don't care much about horse racing these days; if it weren't for the Derby, the public might think the sport had gone the way of the eight-track tape player. Most people have nothing riding on the race, and they may not even know the names of any of the horses. In my years of covering baseball, there was always a Derby pool in the press box, and most of the participants didn't know a thing about the horses when they pulled their numbers from a hat. That a press box corps would...