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Edited NTRA Release — Essential Quality, who is training at Churchill Downs in preparation for the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve on
I’m calling an audible. Beneath Sunday’s “Hot Takes” column we promised to get to Friday’s “Future Stars” program. That can wait. Instead, I wanted to
It didn’t take long for some interesting questions to arise in the aftermath of Derby-146, such as was it the jock’s fault? Was the racetrack
By NTRA Release – Champion Maximum Security, who led the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) Top Thoroughbred Poll in early March, has moved back into
Per usual, a horse-playing pal called Sunday morning to discuss the big events of Saturday afternoon, a little red boarding, a little bad beating, a
To clarify to HRI readers something many voters aren’t even sure of, this is what my NTRA ballot for the Week of SEP 23 looked.
NTRA POLL–SEP 16, 2019— 1 BRICKS AND MORTAR (29) 5-H 5-5-0-0 363 1 2 MIDNIGHT BISOU (4) 4-F 6-6-0-0 316 2 3 MCKINZIE (4) 4-C
Multiple Grade 1-winner Bricks and Mortar remains at #1 in the NTRA Poll with 37 first place votes but Midnight Bisou’s five first-place votes enabled
JULY 26, 2019–That’s our opinion anyway, and why we pegged Mitole at #1 in the weekly NTRA Poll. Not many horses are undefeated in major
The big takeaway from this week’s NTRA Poll was that the Florida Derby, Haskell winner and Kentucky Derby finish-line leader, Maximum Security, entered the ranks
Edited Press Release LEXINGTON, Ky. (July 22, 2019) – After withstanding oppressive heat and surviving an inquiry to prevail in the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational
JULY 22,2019– NTRA Top 10 Thoroughbred Poll 1. MITOLE 2. MIDNIGHT BISOU 3. BRICKS AND MORTAR 4. MCKINZIE 5. SISTERCHARLIE 6. THUNDER SNOW 7. CATALINA
