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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 ...

Those who were in attendance at Saratoga on August 23, 1997, or those watching on TV for that matter, would have little problem embracing the idea that Tale of the Cat (TrueNicks,SRO) might well have been the most naturally talented of all of Storm Cat’s sons. That day, he delivered an unforgettable performance, blistering the track to take the ...

Years ago, when the practice of saddling the horses under the trees in the backyard was abandoned, Saratoga went from having the best saddling viewing to the worst. The erection of a new fence that stands five feet high around the paddock makes sight lines for fans even less accommodating. “I stand up on my tippy toes,” explained Amanda Vogue, ...

Who will win the 2011 Haskell Invitational (gr. I)? Will it be Fire or Ice? Shackleford? Will Coil run a big one? How will the rest come in? Need more information about the Haskell? Read the race preview, or watch That Handicapping Show. writeRanker(''http://i.bloodhorse.com/xml/ranking/2011HaskellOrder.xml''); To participate, use your ...