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  • The Final Round: Blue Grass and Arkansas Derby

      The final round of the Kentucky Derby preps are upon us. After Saturday, let the games, and the hype, begin.Blue Grass Stakes This is the race where we find out what Hansen is all about. With so much early speed in here, he will get the perfect opportunity to rate, not just off of one pacesetter but possibly several. If he can, and then ...
    Posted to Triple Crown Talk (Weblog) by Jason Shandler on 04-13-2012

  • Haskin's Derby Trail: Revisiting Four for the Weekend

    Four of our highly touted horses, as early as Oct. 13, 2011 and as recent as April 6, are running this weekend. Two already have the graded earnings to get in the Derby, one needs an in-the-money performance, and one needs to win.All of them – Holy Candy, Dullahan, Optimizer, and Sabercat – should be good prices, with Holy Candy and Sabercat ...
    Posted to Hangin' With Haskin (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 04-13-2012

  • Majestic Warrior's First Crop Majestic in Sale Ring

    Majestic Warrior, whose first crop of offspring will race this year, was the leading sire at the Keeneland sale of 2-year-olds in training April 9 in Lexington. His three offspring that sold averaged $385,667. The trio included the $700,000 sale-topper, a colt produced from the unraced Hennessy mare Counter Cat, and the auction's ...
    Posted to Hammer Time (Weblog) by macawwoman on 04-12-2012

  • Live Blog - Friday, April 13 at NOON

    .commentForm, .postComments, #comments{display:none;} Join Jason Shandler and Tom LaMarra for a series of Live Blogs to discuss the Kentucky Derby and the Triple Crown.  Live Blogs will be held on April 13 and 20. As well as on Friday, May 4 (Oaks Day), and Saturday May 5 (Derby Day). All blogs begin at NOON Eastern Daylight ...
    Posted to Triple Crown Talk (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 04-12-2012

  • On to Kentucky for Gemologist, I'll Have Another

    The most recent weekend saw another pair of grade I Kentucky Derby (gr. I) preps, with the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct and the Santa Anita Derby on the West Coast. In New York, two of the leading Derby hopefuls, Gemologist and Alpha, had to finish in the first two to be certain of having sufficient graded earnings to make the field. In the event, ...
    Posted to TrueNicks (Weblog) by Alan Porter on 04-12-2012

  • Pierro Captures Golden Slipper for Lonhro

    The weekend past saw the 56th running of the world's richest 2-year-old race, the AAMI Golden Slipper (Aus-I), run over 1200m (6 furlongs) at Rosehill in Sydney with the victor being the undefeated Gai Waterhouse-trained Pierro (Gai had touted Pierro strongly leading up to the race as seen in this pre-race video). Traditionally the race that ...
    Posted to TrueNicks (Weblog) by Byron Rogers on 04-11-2012

  • Haskin's Derby Trail: Riders on the Storm

    This year’s Kentucky Derby contenders are so evenly matched, there is a good possibility the winner will be determined by who gets the best trip and/or the best ride.It is imperative that the jockeys, especially the ones riding the major players, are on their game, because with so little separating these horses, even a minor lapse in judgment ...
    Posted to Hangin' With Haskin (Weblog) by Blood-Horse Staff on 04-10-2012

  • A Hot Shoe and European Torch

    Though the title sounds like items on a great, and hopefully true, adventure with Indiana Jones. The adventure is really about witnessing my first hot shoeing with a farrier and watching my first equine dentist in action.The patient was no other than the ham Eldorado's Tune, better known in short as '''Dorado'' or ''D'' (if you are my 2YO nephew ...
    Posted to Adam's Turf (Weblog) by aspradling on 04-10-2012

  • Derby Betting: Plenty of Parity at the Top

    In a way, it was nice to see a little bit of order restored to the Kentucky Derby picture last weekend after a couple of major upsets the previous week. With the favorites in the Wood Memorial and Santa Anita Derby running one-two, at least we have some semblance of who the top betting choices will be going into the first Saturday in May. ...
    Posted to Triple Crown Talk (Weblog) by Jason Shandler on 04-10-2012

  • 4/14/2012 Northeast/Mid-Atlantic: Key Time

    Pennsylvania battles to keep funding by Tom LaMarra The two will be forever linked: the 2004 Triple Crown run by Smarty Jones and passage of the Pennsylvania Race Horse Development and Gaming Act several weeks later. The Pennsylvania-bred racehorse was so popular that slot machines authorized by the gaming law—Act 71—were dubbed “Smarty Slots.” ...
    Posted to The Blood-Horse Regionals (FileGallery) by aspradling on 04-10-2012
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