Oak Tree Horse Racing

Leading up to the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (I), I found it incredibly annoying how many people were discounting the undefeated Awesome Feather. She may not have won anything special or against any huge winners, but she decimated the Florida Stallion Series at Calder, running a full 2 seconds faster than the colts race the same day. Rounding the turn for home in the BC, it was obvious to me that she was still full of run and needed no encouragement from Jeffrey Sanchez to win in a...Read Full Story

The amazingly keen and perhaps the only Breeders’ Cup winner who was a free horse, Amazombie is slated to run in today’s Palos Verdes Stakes (II) at Santa Anita against the likes of Euroears , M One Rifle , and Mensa Heat .Read Full Story

The job you don’t want this week, next week, next month, maybe ever again… Penn State football Sports Information Director Jeff Nelson walks away from the media after reading a statement announcing that head coach Joe Paterno's weekly news conference was cancelled, outside of the Beaver Stadium, November 8, 2011 in State College, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) Under Armour founder, CEO and “influential” Maryland alum Kevin Plank (R), owner of Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf...Read Full Story

The 15 races on this year’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships, up one compared with last year’s 14 races, will offer purses of $26-million and have attracted a record 193 pre-entered horses for the six races on November 4 and nine races on November 5 at Churchill Downs. The number of pre-entered horses increased 5% from last year’s 184 and the number of pre-entered horses from overseas was up 11.5% from 26 in 2010 to 29 in 2011. A leading female horse will figure prominently against males...Read Full Story

By Blood-Horse Staff Dr. Mark Dedomenico’s Blind Luck, the champion 3-year-old filly of 2010, has been officially retired from racing and booked to Darley stallion Bernardini . Blind Luck arrived Jan. 24 at John Sikura’s Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms near Lexington, Ky. A champion for Dedomenico, John Carver, Peter Abruzzo, and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, Blind Luck was a graded stakes winner all three years she raced. At 2 she won the Hollywood Starlet (gr. I) and the Oak Leaf (gr. I). As a 3...Read Full Story