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Eleven horses will meet in the 1 1/8 mile Whitney (gr. I), with a trip to the Breeders' Cup Classic on the line. Can you predict the order of finish? Need more information about the Whitney? Read the race previewThat Handicapping Show-->. writeRanker(''http://i.bloodhorse.com/xml/ranking/2011WhitneyOrder.xml''); To participate, use your ...

Few in the crowd of several hundred people watching the end of the NYRA Jockeys vs. Philadelphia Orchestra softball game Monday evening noticed the shiny black Mercedes Benz S-Class sedan roll up to the Saratoga East Side Rec Center stadium and park within feet of the backstop.  The score was tied 11-11 after seven innings of regulation play, ...

This year's Perfect Trip Award will recognize a Breeders' Cup Challenge race winner from this season's North American races that best exemplifies a ''Perfect Trip''. The winner will be selected from a panel of racing experts and will have the opportunity to experience his or her own ''Perfect Trip'' through Sentient Jet, with ...

Newsflash: Todd Pletcher is a pretty good trainer and horses tend to move up when he gets them in his barn. Prediction: Sidney's Candy will have a monster second half. Opinion: Sidney's Candy is the most talented horse in the country. Okay, so the opinion is a bold one, especially for a horse that has just one grade III turf win through seven ...

Rapid Redux may not carry with him the same glory as the mighty Zenyatta, but after a spotty start to his career, the 5-year-old son of Pleasantly Perfect has an impressive win streak going. A hard-knocking 5-year-old gelding, Rapid Redux has won 14 straight races mostly in starter allowance company on the northeast circuit. He is thriving in the ...

 (Originally published in the August 6, 2011 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Eric Mitchell - @EJMitchellKy on Twitter The 3-year-old male who can nail down at least one more grade I stakes before the end of the year is almost assured the ...

Bob Baffert has performed so many extraordinary feats of magic over the years nothing he does should ever come as a surprise. But since the White-Haired Wonder hooked up with new jockey, Garcia the Great, even he is amazed at what he and Martin Garcia have been able to accomplish.That amazement reached a new high in the $1,020,000 Haskell ...

The goal of the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale isn't to be the largest auction of its kind in the world. Instead, its focus is quality over quantity, making it a boutique market designed to appeal to the wealthiest Thoroughbred shoppers. But the size of this year's catalog is small enough to raise some questions about how the auction ...

Whatever the number is that NYRA reports as the paid attendance for Sunday, you can cut it by a third.  The crowd was big, but the count was inflated by thousands of people who paid their way into the track more than once and left before the races began.  With every paid admission of $3, patrons received a coupon for a great-looking ...

Owner Mike Repole wasn’t on horseback Saturday.  But he rode an emotional bucking bronco that would unseat most people.  His Repole Stables sent out four runners – two won, and the first one, a promising maiden two-year-old colt by Giant’s Causeway named Giant Surprise, was taken off the track in a van seconds after he crossed the finish ...