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1 Good Magic Chad Brown Curlin—Glinda the Good, by Hard Spun He’s starting to get serious, breezing a half in a bullet :48 2/5 at Palm Meadows, fastest of 37 works at the distance. He has a solid enough pedigree. By a two-time Horse of the Year, out of a stakes-winning mare, his broodmare sire Hard Spun was a grade 1 winner who was ...

Sometimes, names of Thoroughbreds are implanted in our psyche as if they will remain embedded there forever. It happens every year on the first Saturday in May. But in some cases those names, for whatever reason, turn out to be fleeting and soon fade from consciousness. It was nine months ago, following a contentious Kentucky Derby trail, ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman With a full field and a winner's purse of $7 million on the line, Saturday's $16.3 million Pegasus World Cup (gr. I) at Gulfstream Park is shaping up to be a tremendous showdown between some of the best dirt horses in the world. Let's take a look at each horse in the ...

The city of Philadelphia is on the edge of its collective seats, waiting to erupt in joyous, raucous celebration. No city celebrates their sports heroes quite like Philly. All that has to happen is the Eagles upsetting the dynastic New England Patriots, who are trying for their sixth Super Bowl victory in the Tom Brady--Bill Belichick era. We ...

By: Erin Shea, @BH_EShea  Vinceremos, the Machmer Hall-bred who ran in the 2014 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1), was on a familiar path. Even with his promising start on the Derby trail and a grade 3 win as a 3-year-old, as time went on he started to drop down through the claiming ranks.  The son of Pioneerof the Nile ...

During the dead months of winter, Major League Baseball has its hot stove league, drawing upon the image of fans gathered around a hot stove discussing their favorite teams, players, and summer days to come. Those in the Thoroughbred breeding world have their own “hot stove league” that revolves around staying warm before, or after, trips to the ...

1 Good Magic Chad Brown Curlin—Glinda the Good, by Hard Spun It’s not every day you see a horse ranked No. 1 who broke his maiden in November in his last start. But then again, that maiden win came in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and he did it like a seasoned pro. With a close second in the Champagne, beaten only a half-length in his ...