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For the first eight months of his career, everything went right for Creative Cause. Is it possible for everything to then go wrong in the next six weeks? Yes, according to a great many experts and anyone else with an opinion on the do’s and don’ts of Triple Crown training.Trainer Mike Harrington found himself thrust on the Derby scene and out of ...

1. Tiger Walk (Tale of the Cat), TrueNicks report 2. Teeth of the Dog (Bluegrass Cat), TrueNicks report 3. Pretension (Bluegrass Cat), TrueNicks report 4. Zetterholm (Silver Train), TrueNicks report 5. Went the Day Well (Proud Citizen), TrueNicks report 6. Creative Cause (Giant's Causeway), TrueNicks report 7. Bodemeister (Empire Maker), ...

Then and now. Along the drive through historic Sagamore Farm, with its idyllic pastures, gently rolling hills, and spectacular vistas, you pass a small unobtrusive barn that at first doesn’t look like a barn at all, due mainly to its garage doors that were installed years ago to replace the old existing traditional barn doors. Inside, there is ...

Trainer Doug O'Neill, who won his first Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) when I'll Have Another ran down the game Bodemeister in the stretch at Churchill Downs, will be the next guest on Bloodhorse.com's popular Talkin' Horses podcast at 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 15.O'Neill, a Michigan native who has evolved as one of Southern ...

(Originally published in the May 19, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) By Evan Hammonds   An off-again, on-again love affair between the Maryland Jockey Club and its signature race for the handicap division, the Pimlico Special, has ...

(Originally published in the May 19, 2012 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) Story and photo by John GilmoreAs the horses galloped up the finishing straight in the 2,400-meter (11⁄2-mile) Prix de la Lomagne Handicap at Saint-Cloud on a gloomy, rain-sodden ...

John Nerud has a lot on his mind these days. He is studying all the Triple Crown participants and funneling in as much information about the contenders as he can from whatever sources available. He is preparing a candid (what else?) and blunt article on the Lasix situation, NYRA, and other pertinent matters concerning racing. He’s been consulting ...

You don't typically see pinhookers banging heads with big-spending buyers likeSheikh Mohammed's bloodstock manager John Ferguson and Demi O'Byrne for thevery best horses at the yearling sales. But their participation is important tothe health of the market. Pinhookers provide new homes for many young horsesthat don't have the very best pedigrees ...

Bittersweet is probably the best way to express my feelings on the following news: I will be leaving The Blood-Horse on May 22, just after my coverage of the Preakness. As LeBron would say, I’m taking my talents down to South Florida to begin a new business and a new chapter in my life. After 11 years of sports writing—six at a Philadelphia ...

Jack Sisterson looked out the plane window as he approached Louisville Airport in 2002 and saw his life unfold right before him. The native of Durham, England, who grew up with horses, as a jockey and show jump rider, had been offered a soccer scholarship by the University of Louisville and was looking forward to fulfilling his dream of moving to ...