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Guaranteed to turn heads on Halloween, Steve and Tanya Melen cruise downtown Tiburon in his 1964 red Mercury Comet Caliente convertible. He is dressed as the “Joy of Painting” artist Bob Ross, complete with a resplendent beard. Tanya has been transformed into one of his aesthetically pleasing landscapes with happy little trees. “Bob” turns to the camera and says, “Look at the beautiful nature and scenery.  Aren’t the trees beautiful? Don’t they make you want to stop and take a little breath? I think I am going to paint them.

When Second of July springs from the starting gate in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, know that his trainer, Phil Gleaves, is someone to loudly root for. When it comes to selflessness, when it comes to putting fatherhood above all else, he is second to none.

Some might say it takes an equal amount of luck and skill to have a horse advance to the Breeders’ Cup World Championships. In the case of Albaugh Family Stables, it possesses so much of both that it has a pair of 2-year-olds pointed toward the season-culminating event at Keeneland Race Course.

Jamás pudo haberse imaginado esta exfutbolista panameña, ficha de la Academia del Real Madrid infantil y posteriormente campeona mundial de Flag Fútbol, que su mejor gol lo marcaría en el hipismo estadounidense, exigente medio en el que debutó, sin complejos y venciendo la “barrera del machismo”, para destacar en la estadística del hipódromo Jack Thistledown, Ohio, luego de haber derrochado clase en Mahoning y

Ever wanted to own a piece of a Triple Crown winner? Now’s your chance: Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Bluegrass is auctioning off halters from the two most recent Triple Crown winners: American Pharoah and Justify.

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