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Edited NTRA Release — Week 41 of the 2023 NTRA Top Three-Year-Old Thoroughbred Poll and the NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll conducted by the National Thoroughbred
Edited NTRA Release — Week 29 of the 2022 NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll conducted by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), covering racing performances through
Edited NTRA Release ― Godolphin’s 4-year-old Mystic Guide remained in first place in the latest NTRA National Thoroughbred Poll, but St. George Stable’s 5-year-old mare Letruska and Godolphin’s 4-year-old Maxfield, moved up to
Edited NTRA Release ― John and Diane Fradkin’s Grade 1 Preakness Stakes winner Rombauer has a one-point lead over Godolphin’s Essential Quality in the latest National Thoroughbred Racing Association Top
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
