Listen up and take a seat as you read this week's edition of HRF's Official Newspaper, the HRF Times.
It includes some breaking news around HRF in our top stories, some solid value on the market in my Up For A Tag Section, as well as the cream of the crop the trainer game has to offer in General's Great Eight. Enjoy!

Section A-Top Stories

Baffert sends out the exciting Tiz Chrome as well as Macias in the Grade 2, $150,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes Saturday at Santa Anita. Tiz Chrome appears likely to be the favorite based on his local debut in the restricted Stuka Stakes, going six furlongs at Hollywood Park in December.

The Grade 1 $500,000 Donn Handicap at Gulfstream Park offers racing action for our VIPs this weekend. The favorite is Quality Road, who won the Hals Hope pretty convincingly.

The kickoff of Super Bowl XLIV is upon us on Sunday, February 7, 2010 and fans will get the chance to see two great quarterbacks, Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints and Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts, square off against each other on the NFL's biggest stage.

The 136th Kentucky Derby is set to be run at venerable Churchill Downs on May 1, 2010. As the first leg of the prestigious Triple Crown of American racing, The Run for the Roses is rich in tradition and history. With that in mind, you may want to get to know some interesting Kentucky Derby facts as you get yourself ready to watch the 2010 Kentucky Derby.

Horse Race Game is starting a new program that will reward our players 30,000 community points for each article they write and submit based on certain topics that we request. In order to qualify for the program, you will be required to write one article first - approximately 250 words - on a specific subject. You will also be given three to four keywords that must appear in that article.

This was a week that was relatively quiet as far as releasing new features for the game and community, but in actuality, a lot of cool things are happening behind the scenes. Below is just a brief update of where we are on certain new features and game enhancements. If I left something out, it's simply because it is not at the very top of the list.

We're not here for virtual pet horses, and our players are definitely not here because they are adopting virtual horses. Our game players are here because they want to win. Breeding, training and racing in our online game requires luck, but also requires skill and a lot of hard work. In fact, we consider our game one of the best skill-action games on the Web.

The 2010 Kentucky Derby on May 1st will be the 136th running of the race that is known around the globe as The Run For the Roses. It's the first leg of what is known as The Triple Crown of American racing and is open only to three-year-old thoroughbreds, and is run at the historic racetrack in Louiville, Kentucky known as Churchill Downs.

The Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event of the year in America and one of the most watched contests in all of the world, with only events like the World Cup eclipsing it. But make no mistake. Stateside, the Super Bowl rules. Advertisers pay record amounts for 30-second spots because networks know that over 100 million people in the States will be tuned in.