There has been a great deal written recently about American Pharoah’s place among the all-time greats. For what he accomplished this year, and last year, I feel he elevated himself into the realm of immortals, not only based on his historic accomplishments on the racetrack, but what he meant to the entire sport and racing fans all over the world, on and off the racetrack. I thought following this past...
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What did Sir Edmund Hillary do after he became the first person to climb Mt. Everest? What peaks are left to climb when you’ve climbed the highest in the world?...
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There is no harsher critic of racing films than yours truly, and I sadly have had to carve apart recent flicks with the dexterity of a surgeon with a scalpel....
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Who has been more esteemed by so many? Who has demonstrated more fairness? Who has been more courteous and has exhibited more good temper toward his or her fans than American Pharoah?...
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Several years ago during Kentucky Derby week, I wrote a small segment in my column about Iraqi War veteran Chris Simonds and his special Kentucky Derby dream. ...
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It was just me, American Pharoah, and Jimmy Barnes with not another soul around in as intimate a moment as I could ever recall with a Derby favorite....
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The amazing energy emitted by American Pharoah in his stirring swan song performance had to be felt 650 miles away through a television screen....
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At 2 a.m Sunday morning, America turned the clocks back an hour. Approximately eight hours earlier, the Thoroughbred racing world turned the clocks back 40, 50, 60 years, back to the Golden Era of the sport when there were Triple Crown winners who would go on to earn their place among the truly greats....
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This is going to be short and hopefully sweet....
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There will be several longshots that come in, some at huge prices. The toughest past of the Breeders' Cup is finding them among the morass of top-class horses who will be competing. ...
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Now that entries have been drawn, let's get the final Breeders' Cup Classic analysis in the books and then go over the rest of the Breeders' Cup card later in the week and look for longshot specials to keep an eye on.
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One of these years Aidan O'Brien is going to set off that bang and that zoom in the Breeders' Cup Classic....
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It was 15 years ago when Richard Mandella actually thought about leaving California and moving East. Obviously, that didn't last very long....
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He's reliable, he's honest, he loves a mile and a quarter, and he consistently runs fast speed figures. But is Tonalist good enough to win the Breeders' Cup Classic...away from Belmont Park?...
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If there is one element of Thoroughbred racing that has always held true it is that the tides of fortune change very quickly....
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American Pharoah vs. Beholder! People are already buzzing. Showdowns between males and females have come in many forms over the years....
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When you have a freak of a racehorse who just happens to have a freaky pedigree, then you have found something extra special. And that appears to be the case with Beholder....
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Well, all the preps are over, and now comes the waiting; first for the pre-entries, then the entries to determine the starting fields. ...
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For Bobby Frankel, he was to be the Messiah; the gifted regally bred racing machine that would be racing's next superstar. He even had the appropriate name – Empire Maker....
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It was the fall of 1980. My wife and I were in Paris on our honeymoon, which we scheduled to coincide with the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. ...
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So, is Tonalist better with or without blinkers?...
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At first there were three, then one scratched and one failed to meet its reserve. That left one Frankel yearling in the Keeneland September sale. All three had been consigned to Book 1. The gray colt, Hip #571, walked into the ring with the swagger of his sire, and also his namesake. ...
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Before the Keeneland September yearling sale became the mother of all sales, there was the Keeneland July yearling sale....
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How do you choose the crowning legacy of a person's career, especially when that person is John Nerud, who had so many careers and has left so many legacies it's difficult to single one out?...
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Somewhere there is a Kentucky Derby with Dale Romans' name on it. ...
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