When the challenges of her position as senior director of racing and horsemen relations at Breeders’ Cup Ltd. become severe, Erin McLaughlin draws encouragement from knowing the adversity her father confronts daily.
The Breeders’ Cup World Championships returns to Keeneland Race Course for the fourth time in the event’s 43-year history next week, and horse racing fans traveling to Lexington, Ky., along with thousands of locals can expect a fun-filled week leading up to the two-day Breeders’ Cup Oct. 30-31. (Get info on remaining tickets here.)
With the 43rd Breeders’ Cup World Championships less than two weeks away, this week’s Thoroughbred racing coverage across all platforms will include news and segments on leading Breeders’ Cup contenders training at the host site, Keeneland Race Course.
Coinin, now a 5-year-old off-track Thoroughbred, has spent nearly his entire life in the hands of Alcina Rawles. She bred him, trained him, and was his exercise rider throughout much of his racing career.
When racing proved not the right fit, Rawles was there for the next chapter, too.
Mark Twain was one of the country’s first great turf writers. Well, sort of.
In November 1865, in “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” Twain offered rare insight into a horseplayer’s mindset when he wrote about a compulsive gambler named Jim Smiley: “If there was a horse race, you’d find him flush, or you’d find him busted.”
