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Be sure to read the first official Derby Dozen in Blood-Horse magazine next week! 1 Greenpointcrusader Dominick Schettino Bernardini—Ava Knowsthecode, by Cryptoclearance I know everyone  is shocked to see this and that I’m going against conventional wisdom and perhaps all logic, but I’ve been wavering back and forth among the top 3 and ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (“Keelerman”) Twitter: @J_KeelermanThe Road to the Kentucky Derby will continue in a big way this weekend when Fair Grounds and Oaklawn Park get their Derby prep races underway with the $200,000 LeComte Stakes (gr. III) and the $150,000 Smarty Jones Stakes. Since entries for the latter race have not yet been drawn, we’ll focus ...

The Thoroughbred Charities of America did not just start on the ground floor of aftercare awareness 26 years ago; the charity helped build the ground floor. Created to serve as a United Way-type fundraising vehicle for horse rescue and humanitarian programs, the charitable arm of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association assisted in ...

 If California Chrome were on Facebook, here are some comments you might be reading, and I don’t mean all those human run Facebook pages. I mean comments from the real thing. Well, so to speak.*******OK, I bowed out for almost an entire year to give the stage I once shined upon to American Pharoah in order to let history run its course. I had ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (“Keelerman”) Twitter: @J_KeelermanGet ready, everyone! Another terrific day of racing awaits on January 9th, highlighted by the return of 2014 Horse of the Year California Chrome in the San Pasqual Stakes (gr. II) at Santa Anita. But for Kentucky Derby fans, the best race of the week is probably the $100,000 Sham Stakes (gr. ...

The timing was right in 1916 when the Kentucky Thoroughbred Horse Association formed and began publishing a newsletter that set the roots of what would evolve into Blood-Horse. The United States was a couple of years away from seeing an end to the economic turmoil churned by the First World War, and the recovery would bring several decades of ...

Although this column is about the importance of the passion women bring to racing and the horses, we must begin by deviating from the intended path in order to lead up to it properly, with the help of a famous movie character in a famous movie and a link to American Pharoah.There has been a deluge of words written about American Pharoah over the ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_KeelermanHappy New Year, everyone! Technically, it isn’t quite 2016 yet—as I’m writing this, we still have 14 hours and 8 minutes to go—but the new year is just around the corner, and so too is the first Kentucky Derby prep race of 2016! On January 2nd, nine up-and-coming Derby contenders will face ...