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What does a surgical instrument used to treat cancer  have in common with TV shows like “Seinfeld,” “Frasier,” “The Odd Couple,” and “Peter Gunn,” or with the Grateful Dead band, the late turf writer Bill Handleman, or baseball star Cleon Jones of the 1969 Miracle Mets? All have been the inspiration for Thoroughbred names given […]

Trainer Keith Desormeaux has carved out an impressive niche, developing low-priced sales yearlings and 2-year-olds into graded stakes winners and contenders for the 3-year-old classics. Texas Red, winner of the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile in 2014, cost just $17,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale. My Boy Jack, winner of the G3 Southwest and […]

Trainer Keri Brion is this week’s guest on the Friday Show, where she advocates for steeplechase racing and for Eclipse Awards voters not to skip over that category and abstain in year-end voting for racing’s annual championships. Brion, who opened a public stable in 2021 that includes horses racing over jumps and on the flat, […]

While there will be no suspense when undefeated Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Flightline is crowned 2022 Horse of the Year, some of the divisional awards to be presented at the 52nd annual Eclipse Awards Jan. 26 will be more contentious. The Eclipse Awards will be held for the first time at The Breakers […]

When she wasn’t busy writing news stories or adding content to our website, taking care of her horses every morning, or giving riding lessons on weekends, Paulick Report news editor Chelsea Hackbarth found the time over the last couple of years to research and write a book that tells the stories of the founding veterinarians […]

Trainer Tom Amoss joins Ray Paulick and Joe Nevills on this week’s Friday Show to talk about his unbeaten 2-year-old filly Hoosier Philly, who ran her record to a perfect 3-for-3 with a five-length victory at Churchill Downs on Nov. 26 in the Grade 2 Golden Rod Stakes. A daughter of red-hot sire Into Mischief […]

It’s time again for the Paulick Report Turkey Awards, an annual event that recognizes some of the less-than-spectacular events of the past year. As always, there was an abundance of candidates for these prestigious awards and the nominating committee carefully screened all of the potential winners before putting the nominees up before a secretive online […]

Jessica Paquette has worn different hats in her nearly two decades in racing. She’s been a publicist, a Thoroughbred aftercare proponent, a paddock analyst, and an occasional fill-in race caller, beginning with a pinch-hit appearance at Suffolk Downs in 2014 when regular announcer T.D. Thornton was delayed in getting to the track. Last month, Paquette […]

William T. Young, the late Kentucky philanthropist, businessman and Thoroughbred owner and breeder who stood Storm Cat at his Overbrook Farm, was never one to mince words. When discussing issues that challenged business, society or the horse industry, Young might come to the unusual conclusion that “what you’ve got here is an unsolvable problem.” That […]