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Five Bobby Flay Recipes Perfect for Your Watch Party

Whether the hottest racing action is at Saratoga Race Course or Del Mar in the summer or at Keeneland Race Course or Santa Anita Park in the fall, if you can’t get to the track be sure to make the most of a great racing weekend by host

Q&A with U.S. Olympic Swim Team Coach Bob Bowman

Editor's Note: With the 2016 Olympic Summer Games beginning in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we take a look back at this 2013 Q&A with swimming coach Bob Bowman, this year's coach of the U.S. Olympic swim team and the longtime coach of the most decorated athlete in Olympic history, Michael Phelps. The introduction has been amended but the Q&A is unaltered.

Olympians Involved in Horse Racing

Olympic athletes love competition and horse racing is one outlet where many of them get their fix in the offseason (or year-round). Read up on some of the current and past Olympians involved in Thoroughbred racing and get ready for Rio's opening ceremonies this Friday.

Michael Phelps

With 22 Olympic medals, swimmer Michael Phelps is the most accomplished U.S. Olympian of all time. He’s also dived into owning racehorses recently with his swimming coach Bob Bowman.

Dark Horse a Real Life Cinderella Story

There is something special about a “feel good” movie especially in today’s turbulent times. It’s good to see someone succeed. If the movie involves animals, then I am all in! "Dark Horse" is a wonderful documentary that provides a fascinating story about a couple living in Wales who decided to breed a Thoroughbred. Born on a coal slagheap, the horse named Dream Alliance carried the hopes and dreams of their small syndicate from a gentlemen’s club in coal mining country to the Grand National horse race at Aintree.

Lani, Japan’s Quirky Triple Crown Hero

“The Japanese horse” they all called him, though he was born right here in the United States. Kentucky, even. A son of Tapit, our country’s top sire, which makes him related to many of the top American horses – including Creator, another gray horse in the Belmont Stakes. His maternal grandsire is Sunday Silence, the 1989 U.S. Horse of the Year.

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