Pakistan's Polo Obsession: The Kings, the Horses, and the Shoes That Changed the Game

Blood Will Tell: The Three Stallions Who Built the Thoroughbred

Every thoroughbred on earth traces its male line to one of three stallions. The soldier's horse. The merchant's gamble. The cart-horse from Paris.

Kings Plate Aluminium: Why Pakistan's Race Horses Are Running on the Wrong Shoes

The racing community has a problem most trainers won't admit. The right aluminium shoe translates directly into seconds on the track.

Tent Pegging · Pakistan

January 2025

Tent Pegging and the Right Shoe: What Most Riders Get Wrong

The discipline demands explosive acceleration, pinpoint ground work, and a horseshoe that handles both. We go into the stables with Pakistan's top tent pegging competitors.

Thoroughbreds racing at Lahore Race Club, Kot Lakhpat, Pakistan

Racing · History

Lahore Race Club: The Complete Guide to Pakistan Horse Racing

From the British raj course on Jail Road to the Pakistan Derby at Kot Lakhpat — the Jockey Club, the Classics, the stables, and why Sunday at LRC is unlike anything else in Pakistan sport.

Farriery · Guide

The Owner's Guide to Farriery: What Every Horse Owner in Pakistan Must Know

Hoof anatomy, the pre-shoeing brief, racehorse vs polo horse shoeing, and five red flags — everything before the first nail is driven.

Racing · Results · Z-Stables

Chasing Eden winning the April Cup at Lahore Race Club

She Came Second by a Hair. Then She Came Back and Won.

Chasing Eden breaks her maiden at Lahore Race Club's April Cup — two weeks after a photo-finish on Derby Weekend. The first of Arnaag's line to perform.

Racing · Champions · Throwback

Prodigal Rain racing in Z-Stables silks at Lahore Race Club

April 2026

The Tumultuous Supremacy of Prodigal Rain

One bid. One hammer. Sold at a third of his peers' price — dismissed by his own stud as a horse that would never race. Five wins at Lahore Race Club later, including two legacy cups and a Derby denied by sheer bad luck, Prodigal Rain left in Z-Stables silks, victorious, and utterly unrepeatable.

Racing · Results · Z-Stables

May 2026

Chasing Eden: The Tremendous — Month by Month, Cup by Cup

Top weight. Gate 8. Eight rivals including the horse that beat her on Derby Day. She won by two and a half lengths in benchmark time — and her breeder flew 16 hours from the US to watch her do it.

Racing · Culture · State of the Sport

A lone thoroughbred on an empty racecourse at dusk — the global decline of horse racing

July 2026

The Last Beat of a Racing Horse?

48 American tracks gone since 2000. Singapore ended 182 years of racing with one final card. Rawalpindi has fallen silent. And in Lahore, allegedly, every foal sells within minutes of birth — while the handicap thins month on month. So where are they all on race day?

Nutrition · Racing · Polo

A feed room at dawn — buckets, scoops and supplement tubs, a thoroughbred waiting at the door

July 2026

Khilai Pilai: The Nutrition of Your Pakistani Race Horse

Ten litres of sweat costs 55 grams of chloride. A hoof takes nine months to grow out. Eighty per cent of racehorses in training have ulcers. And nothing on your shelf has a taseer. The complete feed-room audit — every category, every brand, and the mistakes that cost owners more than the horses do.