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Every year, American thoroughbred racing produces scores of very good race horses, but very few great ones. That’s a fact … and the reason why there hasn’t been a Triple Crown winner since the 1970s, more than thirty years ago.

Horsewomen are a rough and tumble bunch. They can mix it up with the best of them, and they are most definitely not afraid to get their hands dirty. One of the greatest things about them is that they almost always have great senses of humor.

A distinguished group of scientists sat around drinking coffee one day (even scientists aren't able to think in the morning without caffeine!) and came up with the unsurprising conclusion that we human beings are the most intelligent species, that we are far more advanced in brain power to all of the earth's other creatures.

As a horse racing fan for over ten years, I was surprised but not shocked when at the 2009 Eclipse Awards Rachel Alexandra was crowned as Horse of the Year. There isn't anybody that would argue that the incredible 3-year-old filly ran some of the most memorable races that horse racing fans will never forget during this last season.

Lunch in Ireland

Two Irishmen were in a bar on a Friday night discussing the following day's racing at the Curragh when one said to the other, "I have a tip on a horse called Lunch, tomorrow."

They have fallen out of fashion in recent times, but most sports fans remember those Mastercard commercials, right?You know, the ones that you'd see when you were watching the World Series or the NFL playoffs or the Super Bowl. The whole idea would be that they'd show us a family heading to some big game, possibly a World Series or some other playoff game.

At school, the only papers that you write are on horses.
The cute fella standing next to the trailer doesn't grab your attention, but horse inside the trailer does.
The stall your horse lives in is cleaner than your house, and you like it that way.
Your whole life revolves around horse practice and shows, and you deny it when people tell you that you have no social life.

Racing fans, you could be addicted to horses and horse racing and not even know it!

ESPN and ABC will be broadcasting every single 2009 Breeders' Cup race over the two-day event known as The Super Bowl of horse racing. The schedule gets underway on Friday and ends Saturday with the running of the 26th Breeders' Cup Classic. Notable for the 2009 renewal is the fact that, for the very first time ever, a mare (Zenyatta) is favored to win the Breeders' Cup Classic.

As the Triple Crown series concludes for 2009 with the running of the Belmont Stakes, horse racing fans invariably take a step back and examine how the potential year-end Eclipse Award contenders are stacking up.