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The 1934 Fight to Reopen Oaklawn, The Legend and a Little ‘Magic’

Dave Hill is a writer whose work has been featured on Grantland, This American Life, in New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, McSweeneys and various other publications in print and on the internet. Hill moved with his family from Brooklyn, N.Y., to Hot Springs, Ark., to work on a book about his grandmother and the illegal casino she worked at that was mysteriously blown up in 1963 in a small Arkansas town.

A Breeders’ Cup Dream Come True for Colt Cunningham

Colt Cunningham has a perfect name and a perfect smile. And he is smiling a lot this weekend. He has the kind of smile where his eyes slowly close and stay shut while his face brightens into a great big open grin. It’s as if he is capturing the images in front of him to look at them later. He had a pretty rough start in life. He was born with a congenital heart disease called pulmonary stenosis that causes abnormal development of the fetal heart. Basically, what it means is that his heart has issues with the blood flow from his heart to the pulmonary artery.

California Chrome Just One Part of Dihigi Gladney’s Amazing Ride

The California sun warmed the flanks of the ponies as the children flocked to look at them. Happy children with flurries of butterflies painted on their faces pointed and chattered to their parents about which pony they wanted to ride. There were Fancy, Cali, Maverick and Chocolate wearing Circle Y western saddles bedecked with colorful horse racing saddle cloths and western headstalls. A smiling man stood next to the line and took in all the details. Every pony was immaculately groomed and their manes were freshly combed.

Little Red Feather Offering Unique Racehorse Ownership Opportunity

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.

The Christmas Present of a Lifetime

Bill Poole sat puzzling in his chair as he opened his Christmas present from his daughter. It was Christmas Eve and they always opened their family gifts before going to church. He carefully lifted out the plastic horses from the box and wondered “Did she buy me a horse?” His daughter Kathy Smith watched anxiously as she had been planning his present for a very long time. His oldest grandson handed him his second present which was a handmade book full of photographs of Churchill Downs.

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