Partnerships

Partnerships can succeed in Thoroughbred racing. Now partnerships are everywhere.

Vegas Rules

We know what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, but which hotels have the best race and sports books?

How To Choose A Trainer

Attorney/owner Chris Wittstruck, who teaches an adult education course in horse ownership at Hofstra University on Long Island, guides owners through this difficult decision.

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August 2007

Volume 1 Issue 1 Collectors' Edition


Destination: Saratoga

Writers have been describing Saratoga Race Course for nearly a century and a half, but no one has captured the spirit and soul of America’s most famous racetrack better and more succinctly than Red Smith: "The way to Saratoga is easy. From New York City, you drive north on the Thruway for 175 miles, take a left at Exit 14 onto Union Avenue and go back about 100 years." ...more

 

Prado At His Peak

Edgar Prado’s final ascension to the top of his profession began with a deeply difficult career decision he made in the summer of 1999. That’s when he abandoned his comfortable life in Maryland for the possibilities only New York can offer a top rider, even one who had already led the nation in victories. Prado’s personal ascension came years earlier. For as skilled as he is in the saddle on a thousand-pound Thoroughbred traveling nearly 40 miles an hour, Prado is much more adept as a caring human being, one who has lived by a simple belief. “I always believe that if you do things from the bottom of your heart, the man upstairs can always watch that,” Prado said. “That’s the best thing to be.” ...more

 

Tom Durkin's Little White Lie

The man known for the accuracy of his stretch calls needed the truth to be stretched just a little – okay, by a country mile – by a pal who gave Durkin the entrée to the career he had coveted since he was a teenager growing up in Chicago.“A friend of mine, Jim Forret, was hitchhiking from Milwaukee to Green Bay, where my college was, and a guy named Marty Helmbrecht picked him up,” Durkin recalled. “He ran these county fairs where they had horse racing. They started talking and my friend said I was the assistant track announcer at Arlington Park. There WAS no assistant track announcer at Arlington. ...more

 

2005 First Growth Bordeaux

I started out with Bordeaux as my premier interest in wine,” Frank Ruota, a horse owner, dog breeder and wine collector in upstate New York, explained. He also worked in the wine and spirits retail business in Schenectady, New York. Ruota fondly reflected on 35 years of his life’s passion, whose early years largely revolved around the iconic first growth of the region’s red wines. “I tasted at least 20 vintages of famed Chateau Lafite Rothschild,” Ruota said of one grand affair. “A lot of them were from the late 1800s, one a 1929. Most were in poor condition by the late 1970s ...more