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Cody Dorman, Cody’s Wish, Santa Anita Park, Eclipse Sportswire

Award-Winning Filmmakers to Tell Inspirational Story of Cody’s Wish

Director Jeff Celentano and producer Warren Ostergard of “The Hill,” this year’s award-winning sports drama starring Dennis Quaid, have reunited to launch Enliven Content, a film and television production company with an eye towards true, inspiring, and uplifting stories.

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Apprentice Jockey Serafin Carmona, 36, Reminds Us Why We Are Inspired by Sports

Eleanor Roosevelt once proclaimed, “Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.” Not many people would consider the ripe age of 36 to be old, but in the world of sports it is.

Serafin Carmona, a longtime exercise rider turned 36-year-old apprentice jockey, is another shining example that it is never too late in life to become what you want to be.

Hall of Fame Quarterback Terry Bradshaw, Keeneland September yearling sale, Thoroughbred racing, Anne M. Eberhardt

Legendary NFL Quarterback Bradshaw Looking at Return to Horse Racing

Attendees at Thoroughbred sales are used to familiar faces — the industry is a tight-knit circle comprised of people attending the same events. But the Keeneland September yearling sale brought a different type of familiar face to the sales pavilion Sept. 10.

Terry Bradshaw, the Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers who for the last 30 years has come into homes as part of FOX’s NFL Sunday crew, was in Lexington Tuesday.

Kansas City Chiefs, Travis Kelce, Swift Delivery, Woodbine, Eclipse Sportswire, Julie WRight

Great Derby Experience, Appeal of Horse Ownership Lured Travis Kelce to Swift Delivery

Swift Delivery may have finished second in his stakes debut, the Aug. 31 Toronto Cup Stakes at Woodbine, but that has not dampened the spirit of National Football League superstar and part-owner Travis Kelce.

“We still have a lot of faith in him,” Kelce said during a Sept. 4 episode of the “New Heights Podcast” that he co-hosts alongside his brother and fellow Super Bowl champion, Jason.

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Mike Repole Discusses Plans to Produce Streaming Series on Horse Racing

When you access your favorite streaming service such as Netflix or Hulu, you expect to find a blockbuster movie like “Barbie” or “Twister.”

Mega stars like Tom Cruise or Meryl Streep. Maybe “The Rock.”

But coming soon to your television or streaming device may be ... Mike Repole?

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