Richard P. Harris, Jr.’s homebred Cash Broker got the VHBPA Spring Point-to-Point series off to a fast start winning the $2,000 VHBPA Virginia Bred/Sired Flat race at the Casanova Hunt Point-to-Point on Saturday.

Ocala native Jason Neff is raising funds for JOCK, a feature-length documentary that will explore how horseracing’s first female jockeys (including Barbara Jo Rubin, pictured left) broke down barriers forty-years ago.

The Florida State grad is hoping to complete the film next year and have it appear in movie theaters in time celebrate the 40th anniversary of Diane Crump’s history-making ride at Hialeah on February 7, 1969.

JOCK about the first generation of female jockeys who in the late… Continue reading →

The folks in Switzerland think it’s a great idea to run races and play polo in the ice and snow. We’ve go no beef with that, but what would worry us is the simple fact that they do it on a frozen lake.

Franco Moro, pulled by Peredur, right, and Harald… Continue reading →

On last Wednesday, the Virginia Racing Commission assigned 40 days of live racing to Colonial Downs for 2009. The track had requested 25, and the Virginia H.B.P.A. had countered with a 45 day request (the same as in 2008).

The VRC, at its meeting in January, had suggested two possible compromises. While Colonial Downs did not embrace either compromise, they are required to run the mandated days. The agreement calls for the VA HBPA to provide the “gap funding” which… Continue reading →

Maybe it would be better titled “What the hell is going on here?”

Simply put, Halsey Minor is suing the city of Hialeah.

Russel Road winning the $50,000 Dancing Count Stakes at Laurel in January.

His breeder, Robert H. Lloyd, purchased a season to Wheaton in the 2005 VTA Stallion Season Auction, and the resulting foal won five out of six races last year and $202,530.

In his only start at three, Russell Road won the Dancing Count to up his total career earnings up to $232,905.

(Photo by Jim McCue/Maryland Jockey Club)

Colonial Downs’ all-time leading trainer, Ferris Allen, is featured in the Breeders Fund’s full page ad in the February Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred.

Riders jump a fence during the Williamhill.com Play Poker Graduation Steeple Chase during the race meeting at Kempton Racecourse on February 7, 2009 in Sunbury-on-Thames, England.

This is a great example of guerrilla marketing. Here is a spoof handicapping video put up on YouTube by Animal Planet to promote the series “Jockeys.”

“Jockeys” premieres Friday, February 6 at 9 pm e/p.

Edward P. Evans’ homebred Charitable Man, by Lemon Drop Kid, out of Charitabledonation by Saint Ballado, is the highest ranked Virginia-bred (117 lbs.) on the Jockey Club’s Experimental Free Handicap.