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Top Horse Races – Graded Stakes Put the Sport’s Top Thoroughbreds on Display

In 1973, horse racing in North America entered a new era when the concept of “graded stakes” races became a reality. The idea of assigning grades to various stakes races, which is administered by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, was designed to provide breeders with an easy reference to compare the relative class and […]

Post Time for the 2012 Preakness Stakes – The Halfway Point in the Triple Crown Racing Series

Kentucky Derby Post Time – Saturday, May 5, 2012, at 6:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time will mark the Post Time for the 137th running of the Kentucky Derby, the oldest continuously held sporting event in all of North American sports history.  NBC will be broadcasting the most exciting two minutes in sports, which will be […]

Why do you ask

`Why do you ask?’ `Because I hope, for my own sake, there is one Baronet that you don’t know.’ `Will you tell me his name?’ `I can’t — I daren’t — I forget myself when I mention it.’ She spoke loudly and almost fiercely, raised her clenched hand in the air, and shook it passionately; […]

Will you promise?

The loneliness and helplessness of the woman touched me. The natural impulse to assist her and to spare her got the better of the judgment, the caution, the worldly tact, which an older, wiser, and colder man might have summoned to help him in this strange emergency. `You may trust me for any harmless purposes,’ […]

I turned on the instant

I turned on the instant, with my fingers tightening round the handle of my stick. There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road — there, as If it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven — stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot […]