However, the Thoroughbred Racing Industry is a small fraction of the horse slaughter picture.
Her job also means delivering bad news, a constant reality in thoroughbred racing, about a horse's health.
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So to Thoroughbred racing, happy new year, and to the horses, happy birthday.
Pickens is the owner of Cigar, which, with 16 consecutive wins, is reportedly the top money earner in thoroughbred racing history.
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The National Thoroughbred Racing Association has created an aftercare program designed to connect horses that need homes with potential adopters.
They mourn the good old days, the glory days of Thoroughbred racing.
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Salvation comes in Marion County, the heart of Florida's thoroughbred racing industry.
The Thoroughbred racing and breeding industries have been rightly criticized for not doing enough to support horses when their profit-making days are behind them.
It might not reach the fanatical level of baseball rotisserie leagues or fantasy football, but yes, Thoroughbred racing does indeed have its own version of a fantasy game.
Lukas was thoroughbred racing's first organization man, a former Wisconsin high school basketball coach who brought the principle of "flooding the zone" from the court to the race track.
Already a resort town by 1863, when the first Thoroughbred racing meeting was held, Saratoga Springs has seen its fortunes rise and fall over the last century and a half.
Perhaps, but Pitino is an active participant in thoroughbred racing's crown jewel because Goldencents overcame adversity to win last month's Santa Anita Derby and earn his way into the 139th Run for the Roses.
According to McKinsey, 78% of stakeholder interviews with a variety of those involved in racing (including horsemen, regulators, media, racetrack executives, and horseplayers) highlighted medication of horses as an issue adversely affecting Thoroughbred racing.
Stephan Panus, vice president of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, asserts that such individual tutorials will lead fans to leads fans to gain confidence to bet, increasing handle that day and on subsequent visits to the track.
On Friday, the 144th Thoroughbred racing meet here will kick off, bringing thousands of visitors to this town of almost 30, 000, thousands of visitors who will spend millions of dollars on hotels, meals, pari-mutuel tickets, spa treatments, and yearling Thoroughbreds.
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Given the general volatility of thoroughbred racing, and the fact that the horses are, by rule, 3 years old, the favorite has only managed to win four times in the last 33 years (or 12% of the time, but who's counting).
The issue of drug tainted horse meat is more easily documented through the Thoroughbred Racing Industry due to the lip tattoos each Thoroughbred race horse is required to have, the post-race testing of the winner as well as some random testing as well as the public nature of horse racing.
Recently I wrote a story about Kevin Plank, the founder and chief executive of Under Armour, and his attempt through the purchase of the historic Sagamore Farm to reinvigorate the sport of thoroughbred horse racing in the state of Maryland.
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This is Sagamore, the 530-acre Thoroughbred horse-racing farm in Glyndon, Maryland, that Plank bought in 2007.
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Those purses are a big reason seven of the 10 top-earning horses--based on career winnings, tabulated by the Thoroughbred Times' Racing Almanac, a trade publication based in Lexington, Ky.
The worldwide success of the Irish thoroughbred-breeding and racing sector is down to the excellence of our horses and the people who work with them.
But not every thoroughbred that gave their lives to racing has the same happy ending.
Unsurprisingly, horse racing-mad Australians have taken the champion thoroughbred to their hearts, with diehard Black Caviar fans even traveling to the other side of the world to cheer her on at Britain's Royal Ascot.
But when Thoroughbred racehorses are involved, even those whose names are unknown to most of the racing public, the spotlight gets bright.
Born in 1996, the Japanese thoroughbred won 12 major races in his native country between 1999 and 2001, and was inducted into the Japanese Racing Association Hall of Fame in 2004.
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