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There is only one shot to win the Kentucky Derby. Yes, the horses that are peaking on the first Saturday in May are ones you look for, and what all trainers strive for, but we always have to remember that luck – good and bad – also plays a big part in who gets the roses and who goes back to the barn a loser. When you think of hard-luck horses ...

I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and express our sincere appreciation for the support we experienced in 2018 from our readers and advertisers. Our flagship BloodHorse magazine has continued to improve as the only weekly magazine dedicated to covering the Thoroughbred industry with circulation increasing year over year. Our year-end ...

Another Derby Dozen draws near and that means the same old formulated thinking and same old logic and same old historical perspectives, with only the names of the horses changing. Uh, not so fast. That had been my thinking every year since Derby Dozen began for Bloodhorse in 1999 and on Derby Watch for Daily Racing Form from 1992-1998. But ...

Unfortunately, Sam Riddle’s recollections of Man o’ War’s 2-year-old campaign were not among the aforementioned papers discovered in Mary Simon’s box of old articles and papers. But what follows is a riveting account of Big Red’s three-year-old campaign. Like with all history, we choose to believe what we want, as there are always different ...

The results of the Dec. 8 Starlet Stakes (G1) had been official for little more than three hours when editorial@bloodhorse.com received an email from Lynn Taylor from Laharape, Ill. There was clearly something on her mind following Chasing Yesterday’s thrilling head score over Enaya Alrabb at Los Alamitos Race Course in Southern California. “Look ...