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Novak at the Track posts tagged "kentucky derby"

#FullStoryPETA Gives Racing a Voice

• 22 Mar 2014 2:27 PM
• 39 Comments

When you cover racing 24-7 and this sport is all you see, the good and bad plays out before your eyes.... Read More

Road to Derby Retrospect

• 13 Dec 2013 9:49 AM
• 6 Comments

Catching up with the winners of last year's Kentucky Derby prep races -- including returns for Vyjack, Itsmyluckyday, Super Ninety Nine, and more.... Read More

What Makes Us Thankful

• 27 Nov 2013 12:24 PM
• 4 Comments

Yes, I'm from one of those families where we have to go around the table and say at least one thing we're thankful for before we're allowed to eat (shout-out to Mom Novak).... Read More

Team O'Neill Back for Another

• 27 Apr 2013 12:58 PM
• 8 Comments

Last year's Kentucky Derby winners arrived at Churchill Downs with 2013 contender Goldencents on April 27. The duties of unloading are documented herein.... Read More

Florida Derby Flashback: Ycaza's Wins

• 29 Mar 2013 7:09 PM
• 9 Comments

Flash back with me. Spring of 1962. The target everyone wants to hit, of course, is the Kentucky Derby--but in the meantime, as a stepping stone, the Florida Derby looms.... Read More

A Heart The Size of Texas: Texas Bling

• 31 Jan 2013 5:38 PM
• 5 Comments

They say everything is bigger in Texas, and if that's the case it is easy to imagine that the heart of a Thoroughbred named Texas Bling is biggest of all 3-year-olds competing on the early trail to the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I). ... Read More

Shackleford Calls it a Career

• 25 Nov 2012 1:45 PM
• 33 Comments

I remember Shackleford... poking his handsome head out of a stall at Churchill, Pimlico, Santa Anita...rolling in the sand pit outside a Saratoga barn...bouncing along like a helium balloon on the end of a lead shank in photos snapped by racing paparazzi.... Read More

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