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Edited Pimlico Release – In a late change of plans, the well-named colt Risk Taking will be entered Monday for the May 15 Preakness Stakes (G1) at Pimlico Race
HALLANDALE BEACH, FL, May 2, 2021 – On the first Saturday in May, with temperatures in the low 70s, beneath the twin spires and under
Edited Churchill Downs Release: JOHN VELAZQUEZ, jockey of Malathaat (First) – “She didn’t get away the best, but I got a spot with her. She was running
Edited Churchill Release —Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt, Madaket Stables and Spendthrift Farm’s Cowan, runner-up in last fall’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (Grade II), tops a field of 10 3-year-olds and two also-eligibles entered in
HALLANDALE BEACH, FL, April 4, 2021 – Absent a blowout victory by Concert Tour in Saturday’s Arkansas Derby, Juvenile champion and undefeated Blue Grass Stakes
Edited Release – Post positions for Saturday’s 97th running of the Toyota Blue Grass (G2) and 84th running of the Central Bank Ashland (G1) were
In order to win a turf sprint you need three essential tools; speed, turn of foot and quickness. It does appear that gelded five year
HALLANDALE BEACH, FL, January 20, 2021 — In the earliest years of what has become a Thoroughbred classic, the Pegasus World Cup Invitational always had
HALLANDALE BEACH, January 4, 2021 – The first prep races of the 2021 Triple Crown season came and went over the weekend. Perhaps the term
Edited Gulfstream Release – The 2020-2021 Championship Meet at Gulfstream Park will get under way Wednesday for the first of 84 days of Thoroughbred racing contested
What do you do when two stable-mail horses collide in the same race, such as the Grade 1 Alcibiades for juvenile fillies on opening Friday
Now I ask you: Was that any way for Midcourt to possibly upset the double-tough Bob Baffert two-pronged attack in the day’s headliner on a
I understand the frustration of rank and file horseplayers when the only names they seem to read or hear about are Bob Baffert, Todd Pletcher
Nothing on Twitter, the launching pad for national angst, surprises me. Not that it’s always bad news. Sometimes it’s just bad takes on good news.
Since he was a wide, strong-finish third behind the revelatory Vekoma in the prestigious Metropolitan Mile, I’ve been waiting to bet Code of Honor (5-2)
