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If you haven't gotten the chance to go to your nearest racetrack to enjoy a day among the majestic thoroughbreds, then you are really missing out on a chance to have fun. Pick a day, most likely a Saturday, in which the weather is nice and sunny so that the weather won't be a problem.

There were a lot of players complaining, and rightfully so, that their students would sign up and then disappear.

It's quite an exciting time for horse racing fans because the Eclipse Awards are coming up, and we'll get to find out which horse has won the most coveted award in horse racing: Horse of the Year. This year, it really comes down to one of two horses, and for the first time in history the only two realistic candidates for Horse of the Year are females, Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra.

This being 2009, I was looking around the internet today to relive the great battles in 1989 between two great thoroughbreds, and one of the things that's interesting to me is the intense nature of the debate about Sunday Silence and Easy Goer, even 20 years later!

As the year 2009 winds to a close, it seems a good time to reflect on how, despite how the two great females, Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta, the little gelding Mine That Bird gave the racing world it's first jolt of electricity when he won the 135th Kentucky Derby in a great example of why, no matter how a race appears on paper and what the experts say, the race must be run.

In a sport like baseball, becoming a legend doesn't necessarily mean having to win the World Series. See, baseball is a team sport which thrives on individual success, and that means that successful individuals that don't win it all can very easily become legends. Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs is a great example of that. So are Ryne Sandberg and Dick Allen.

Has there ever been a race which got the very best horses on the track at the same time at the end of the year? Sure there has been. One that immediately comes to mind is the 1989 Breeders' Cup Classic with Sunday Silence and Easy Goer, so I correct myself on that question, but what about the best three?

I was reading through the different blogs in our community here at Horse Racing Fantasy, and I really loved reading about Cigar and his performance in the 1996 Mass Cap!That got me to thinking about my favorite of Cigar's wins.I've been looking through as many of his races as I can

We at Horse Racing Fantasy have a stable of Hall-of-Fame horses for you to ride. Kelso is a horse that is at or near the very top of that list!

Count Fleet was so pathetic looking as a yearling that owner John D. Hertz offered to sell him for the paltry sum of only $4500, a shockingly low price considering he was the son of 1928 Kentucky Derby winner Reigh Count. But with no takers, Hertz held on to his small yearling.