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Who will win this year's Preakness? Who will finish last? Now is your chance to see how your picks stack up against the rest of the BloodHorse.com community. writeRanker(''http://i.bloodhorse.com/xml/ranking/preaknessorderoffinish.xml''); To participate, use your cursor to drag the selections on the left (currently arranged in post ...

By Frank Vespe, That's Amore Stable, LLC  Most every year, there’s a local angle to the Preakness.  After all, in this faded era, the Preakness stands out as the middle jewel of the Triple Crown — and, to Maryland horsemen, our middle jewel. The Derby, of course, will always be the Derby.  But to Marylanders, the Preakness is ...

(Originally published in the May 16, 2009 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)    Speaking to shareholders May 7 via conference call, Churchill Downs Inc. president and chief executive officer Bob Evans said, “The solution for tracks without slots is to ...

Many Kentucky Derby winners have gone into the Preakness as the heavy favorite, and though some of them came away with a victory, there are others that failed to capture the Woodlawn vase, ending their shot at a Triple Crown.  Below are some of the notable Derby winners that did not repeat at Pimlico.  Rank them in order of the most ...

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Mine That Bird's stunning Kentucky Derby win at odds of 50-1 provided the second highest payoff in the history of the race, but where does it rank in terms of great horses that lost the Derby to ''lesser'' opponents.  We've put together a list of some of the upset Derby winners, with a brief explanation of each race below the poll, to help ...

Well, we saw one bird fly over the rainbow. The vast majority of experts and racing fans were astounded, aghast, and amazed at Mine That Bird’s otherworldly performance in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), in which he took off on a demonic dash as if he were being chased by a swarm of angry hornets. Read the full ...

.commentForm, .postComments, #comments{display:none;} Brought to you by: OCD Pellets Calvin Borel, the hard-working and unassuming jockey who won his second Kentucky Derby aboard 50-1 longshot Mine That Bird, will be the guest on BloodHorse.com’s Talkin’ Horses podcast this Thursday, May 7.A 42-year-old Louisiana native whose brother, ...

To start, this is as tough a Derby as I have ever had to decipher, with a case to be made for at least dozen of the horses. I will break the race down in several categories and then put it all together and come up with something that resembles a wagering strategy. Read the full column here..

The big day is almost here. No, not the Derby; having to make selections, which will be in Friday's column.  In the meantime, he are a few late odds and ends. Read the full column here.