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Nelson Bunker Hunt: An Oilman with an Eye for Racehorses

The silver market may have cost him an immense fortune, yet for about two decades Nelson Bunker Hunt struck gold in Thoroughbred racing.

Hunt, who passed away in 2014 at the age of 88, was a son of oil tycoon H.L. Hunt, who became one of the world’s richest men through ownership of vast portions of the East Texas Oil Field.

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Bishops Bay Edges Mika in Cigar Mile, Paladin Tops 2-Year-Olds in Remsen

Bishops Bay got up just in time to score a gutsy neck win over a determined Mika in the $500,000 Grade 2 Cigar Mile Handicap Dec. 6 at Aqueduct.

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Equibase Leaders: Irad Ortiz Jr. Nears Single-Season Earnings Record

Thanksgiving week delivered not only holiday cheer but also a strong slate of graded stakes action from coast to coast.

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2025 Cigar Mile Handicap Cheat Sheet

The $500,000, Grade 2 Cigar Mile Handicap Saturday at Aqueduct offers one final opportunity for accomplished and aspiring stakes horses to compete in a marquee dirt mile race before the calendar turns to 2026. Held around one turn, the Cigar Mile has long been an important race in the dirt mile division since its inaugural running in 1988 when Forty Niner won what was then called the NYRA Mile Handicap.

Landaluce, 1982 Oak Leaf Stakes, BloodHorse Library

Landaluce: Unforgettable Brilliance, Unimaginable Heartbreak

If there’s one thing that’s even more certain than a 1-20 shot at a racetrack, it’s the inevitability of death.

It comes to all of mankind, and animals as well.

Yet it remains immensely difficult to accept, especially when it comes far too early in someone’s life, such as it did for one of the greatest 2-year-old fillies of the 20th century.

Landaluce seemed invincible on the racetrack.

She won her five starts in dominant fashion, by a combined margin of 46 ½ lengths, including her first graded stakes victory, in which she romped home by 21 lengths.

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