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  Below is a list of the last 20 Kentucky Derby winners and where they finished in their final prep race: 2007 - Street Sense, 2nd Blue Grass Stakes 2006 - Barbaro, 1st Florida Derby 2005 - Giacomo, 4th Santa Anita Derby 2004 - Smarty Jones, 1st Arkansas Derby 2003 - Funny Cide, 2nd Wood Memorial 2002 - War Emblem, 1st Illinois ...

  Has anyone been watching the prices at Keeneland so far? Through five days of the spring meet, there have been 16 horses that have paid $20 or more, and nine exactas totaling at least $200. As usual, it has been bombs away in Lexington, and there is no reason to think that the longshots won't continue. I happen to think some of the ...

  With less than four weeks left until Derby day, and only a couple of important preps remaining, things are finally beginning to take shape. What did we learn last weekend? Well, for one, Colonel John is legit. The son of Tiznow quieted all those who claimed El Gato Malo would have won the Sham had it not been for a poor trip. Fact is, ...

The final results of the poll are in! Surprisingly, Point Given won by a large margin, garnering more than 30% of the votes. I was a bit surprised, not that you guys voted him the winner, but that he won by so much. I bet that if we took this poll again in six months, Curlin's votes would go way up! Thanks to everyone who voted. Since we had ...

  Like everybody else who watched the Florida Derby, my initial reaction to the dominating performance of Big Brown was, ''Wow!'' Several factors made the five-length victory so impressive: A) The fact that his time of 1:48.16 was less than a half-second off the track record, and was nearly a full second faster than Barbaro's winning ...

As you guys know from previous blogs, when it comes to Kentucky Derby Future Wagers, I am all about big prices. I won't go near anything less than 20-1 and with only about five weeks until the Big Show, I am looking for even larger odds than that. So in search of landing a bomb, I decided to venture outside of the ''official'' Future Wager pool ...

  Is anyone out there looking forward to the much Florida Derby as much as I am? The way I see it, it is the most intriguing and important Kentucky Derby prep of the year.  I love the fact that there are so many plot lines:   Will Elysium Fields improve upon his terrific runner-up performance in the Fountain of Youth? Does Big ...

With nearly six weeks until the Kentucky Derby and only eight major preps remaining, it is not too early to start looking at the one thing that is most important when it comes to who will be starting on May 3: Graded earnings. Because the Derby is limited to 20 horses, preference is given to those with the most graded earnings. That means, if ...

Well, well, well. So apparently this year's Kentucky Derby is not going to be as easy as we all thought it was. Perhaps, the Affirmed/Alydar-type duel between War Pass and Pyro may not come to fruition after all. Maybe, just maybe, there are more than two horses to choose from this year. I, for one, was delighted at the results of last ...

This time one year ago Carl Nafzger was the hottest name in the sport. His tremendous 3-year-old Street Sense was just starting his campaign to the 2007 Kentucky Derby, beginning with his victory in the Tampa Bay Derby. Earlier this week I caught up a considerably less busy Nafzger to ask him to recall, among other things, his spectacular ...