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The crowd packed into a hotel lounge off State Road 40 on the outskirts of Ocala, Fla., the afternoon of May 5, 1990, buzzed about Florida’s horse in the Kentucky Derby (gr. I).No mint juleps here. And no big hats with flowing ribbons floating high above spike heels, or sharp-dressed gents with fedoras chewing on fat Rocky Patel cigars. These were ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Question: What do Commanding Curve, Golden Soul, Went the Day Well, Make Music for Me, Mine That Bird, Denis of Cork, Imawildandcrazyguy, Jazil, Giacomo, and Don’t Get Mad all have in common? If you answered ''They all finished in the Kentucky Derby superfecta at gigantic odds,'' you are correct—each of the ...

Peter Beagle wrote in The Last Unicorn, “Great heroes need great sorrow and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”Kiaran McLaughlin has always been a hero to his daughter Erin for his hard work and dedication to the sport that has encompassed his entire life. But it took the “great sorrow and burden” of ...

California trainer Bob Baffert appears to have the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) favorite in his barn for the third time since 2000. The remarkably easy eight-length win April 11 by American Pharoah in the Arkansas Derby (gr. I) gave the son of Pioneerof the Nile his fourth consecutive graded stakes victory since last September. ...

    >Go to the TimeformUS PPs for the Elkhorn Stakes / Post Time 5:13 EDT By TimeformUS Analyst Mike Beer Keeneland will host the Grade 2 Elkhorn Stakes, purse $250k, for the 30th time on Saturday. Set for 1 1/2 miles on the grass, it has pulled a field of 11 and will be run as Race 9 on a 10-race card.On the TimeformUS Pace ...

I suppose most of us in the Thoroughbred racing game have permitted our hearts to rule our heads on occasion. If our hearts were not influential factors in our make-ups, we would probably be pursuing some other enterprise. The case of Pipedreamer comes to mind. He was one of my favorite horses. I saw him first at Royal Ascot, where he was one of ...

On April 18th, the racing world will turn its attention to Charles Town racetrack in West Virginia, where the $1,500,000 Charles Town Classic (gr. II) is the highlight of a thirteen-race card featuring eight stakes races. The star of the show will be Shared Belief, whose seemingly unlimited potential and accomplishments thus far have placed him ...

[image url=''http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/keeping-pace/2015/50to1_DVD_Frontleft.jpg''][/image]Like Mine That Bird's struggles in the winter and spring before his upset victory in the 2009 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), the movie that tells his story, ''50 to 1'', also plods along early, seemingly unsure about what story it ...

Mubtaahij, runaway winner of the UAE Derby, was scheduled to fly to the United States tonight, April 15 (early Thursday morning Dubai time), with a stopover in Amsterdam, and will spend two days in quarantine at Arlington Park before heading to Kentucky, where he will take up residence at Skylight Training Center in Goshen, run by trainer ...

1 American Pharoah Bob Baffert Pioneerof the Nile—Littleprincessemma, by Yankee Gentleman He had to win the Arkansas Derby and win impressively to keep that superstar aura that has surrounded him since last fall. His well of talent is bottomless and he just keeps reaching new heights of sheer brilliance with every performance. And now we ...