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By Joe Clancy

The day my final race is run

And, win or lose, the sinking sun

Tells me it’s time to quit the track

And gracefully hang up my tack,

I’ll thank the Lord the life I’ve led

Was always near a Thoroughbred.

Azeri was Zenyatta before Zenyatta.

Ralph Nicks thought about the question. Almost said something. Then stopped. 

Azeri was Zenyatta before Zenyatta.

By Ben Meyers

When Michael “Buster” Millerick saddled Yankee Dandy and Rackatck, his first stakes winners, in 1940 little did he know that he would be on a roller coaster ride that made him one of the best trainers in the history of California.

By Ben Meyers

A portrait of stamina and victory is what Harry Bassett was when he was racing.

By Joe Clancy

Don Pierce wanted to be a jockey – badly – but not badly enough to take the bus from Coos Bay, Oregon to Hollywood Park.

By Karen Johnson

Nobody inducted into the Hall of Fame gets there without a display of complete dedication to their trade. 

By Mike Kane

How good was Point Given? His resume says super. Bob Baffert has an even higher opinion of the colt, the third of his trainees to join him in the Hall of Fame.

By Joe Clancy

Best Pal raced in the modern era, but would have made a nice throwback. The California-bred gelding started 47 times from ages 2-8, won 18 races and earned in excess of $5.6 million.