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“Brandywine Baby” Danza Brings Farm Back To The Kentucky Derby

When Danza crossed the finish line first in the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby on April 12, he had plenty of people cheering him on at Oaklawn Park. He also had a serious, albeit smaller, cheering section at Henry Clay’s in Lexington, Kentucky, where Pam Robinson was having dinner with Ressa Harris, one of the clients…

May 2, 2014 in Breeding, Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Derby 2014.

A No-Bid Mare & Newborn Foal Find A Home At Brandywine Farm

We know that we’re supposed to remember, always, that horse racing is a business. That even though we’re animal lovers, horses aren’t pets. That, as much as we cringe to read it, or to write it, they are property. That truth is hammered home nowhere more clearly than the sales ring, when a literal price…

February 23, 2014 in Brooklyn Backstretch.

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