Thoroughbred Times News Editor Ed DeRosa shares his experience covering the top events in Thoroughbred racing

Ed began attending the races with his grandfather at Thistledown near Cleveland, though the first bet he actually remembers making occurred on dog racing at Wheeling Downs in 1986. He hit place wagers on seven of ten races and won enough to buy the Speak N Spell/Speak N Math combo pack. He stuck with win-place wagers until 1997 when he discovered the pick three. A graduate of Denison University, Ed joined Thoroughbred Times as a staff writer in May 2002. He won the Bill Leggett Award for magazine writing for his story on the 2005 Breeders’ Cup Mile. His favorite horse is Real Quiet.

Thoroughbred Times Sales Editor Pete Denk shares his experience covering North American Thoroughbred auctions and racing.

Pete fell in love with horse racing during the early 1990s while frequenting Sportsman’s Park, Arlington Park, and Hawthorne Race Course in his native Chicago. His first favorite horses were Dehere and Holy Bull. An award-winning newspaper journalist, Pete moved to Lexington in March of 2005 to accept a job as staff writer with Thoroughbred Times. He was promoted to sales editor in January of 2008.

Veteran bloodstock agent and Thoroughbred racing journalist Dan Kenny chronicles the ups and downs of horse racing.

As the owner of Dan Kenny Bloodstock and a founding partner in Four Star Sales, Dan brings perspective as an active participant in the Thoroughbred industry as a buyer and seller and as a longtime member of the media. He has purchased more than 100 stakes winners, 11 of them Grade 1 performers. Thoroughbreds are responsible for his remarkable odyssey through life and helped make travel to 20 separate countries a reality. Dan will blog a mélange of memories and current business situations designed to make money, intrigue, and entertain a readership, and contribute some original thinking to the horse world.