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Old Friends is deeply saddened to announce that Sarava, the upset winner of the 2002 Belmont Stakes (G1), has died today.

Trainer Brad Cox sent out his 2,000th career North American winner Saturday at Fair Grounds, saddling 1-2 favorite Bishops Bay to a three-quarters of a length debut victory over stablemate First Mission in Race 5.

The Derby, the Sheikh and the Missing Princess (Or: How Human Rights Became the Talk of a Horse Race) Pat Forde The billionaire ruler of Dubai has spent a fortune pursuing Kentucky glory. In Essential Quality, Saturday’s favorite, he has his best chance—but it comes at his ugliest moment. The select yearling sale at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., is where the world’s big players converge each year to throw staggering sums of money at thoroughbred racing dreams. Much of the most expensive horseflesh on the planet is paraded through a pavilion at the bucolic trac...

Sponsored by: Brad Cox In the early spring of 2016, Livia Frazar was asked where she saw her husband's training career in five years. That trainer, then an up and comer obsessed with horses, was Brad Cox. “I see him at the top,” she said. “He'll be at the top.” Frazar was right, but it only took her husband four years to complete a meteoric rise and capture his first Eclipse Award as the country's outstanding trainer of 2020. “I hope she's still seeing that five years from now or 10,” Cox said during a Feb. 1 interview at Oaklawn, where he has more than 40 horses stable...