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GREENFIELD CENTER, N.Y. – Will’s Way is there, displaying the same stay-out-of-my-way attitude that allowed him to triumph in the Travers Stakes in 1995 and in the Whitney Handicap in 1997. When a television crew moved a bit too close some time ago, he reminded them that the paddock is his space – and definitely not theirs – by chomping on the camera.

Editor's Note: With the 2016 Olympic Summer Games beginning in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we take a look back at this 2013 Q&A with swimming coach Bob Bowman, this year's coach of the U.S. Olympic swim team and the longtime coach of the most decorated athlete in Olympic history, Michael Phelps. The introduction has been amended but the Q&A is unaltered.

Little Red Feather Racing Club is stepping outside the traditional racing partnership to offer sports fans a unique opportunity to become a racehorse owner using the new Title III laws.

The LRF Thoroughbred Fund was designed as a way to crowdfund the first-ever Thoroughbred racing partnership in which each participant receives real equity in each racehorse.

Olympic athletes love competition and horse racing is one outlet where many of them get their fix in the offseason (or year-round).  Read up on some of the current and past Olympians involved in Thoroughbred racing and get ready for Rio's opening ceremonies this Friday.

Michael Phelps

With 22 Olympic medals, swimmer Michael Phelps is the most accomplished U.S. Olympian of all time. He’s also dived into owning racehorses recently with his swimming coach Bob Bowman.

If you’re planning your summer visit to Saratoga — and why wouldn’t you — or if you’re already on the way up to, know one thing: any complete day at “The Spa” is a marathon. If you want to do it right, you’ve got to be at the track early to watch morning works, spend the afternoon at the races, win some money and then take that money out on the town for a bite and a post-race drink or two.

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