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The answer to this question is almost impossible to answer because you have a ceiling that is so high, it is difficult to assess without getting a bit too carried away. With Omaha Beach, you have to start with the usual questions - How? What? Why? When? and Where? The first question we've addressed, how good is he? What are his limits if he ...

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It is appropriate that the New York Racing Association moved the Kelso Handicap from its fall Super Saturday card, where it was pretty much lost, to its own weekend. Now the focus is not only on those versatile horses prepping for either the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile or the Classic, but on one of the all-time great Thoroughbreds for whom the ...

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On August 11 at the Reading Room in Saratoga, Cot Campbell's family and friends will celebrate the life of the man who changed the face of Thoroughbred racing. I first met Cot Campbell at the 1990 Preakness Stakes when I was assigned to write the winning owner's story for the Thoroughbred Times. I pulled into the press parking lot ...

King Lear, MacBeth, Henry IV, Maximum Security. The more Maximum Security races the more Shakespearean his career becomes. He now has surpassed Max's Hot Dogs as the most popular Max on the Jersey shore. But, boy, would Shakespeare have loved to write about this horse's adventures. How about The Tempest 2? After all, the definition ...

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, I am reprinting a story from 2013 when Rick Porter had Normandy Invasion in the Kentucky Derby and brought several survivors of the invasion to Churchill Downs, taking them to the backstretch one morning to meet his horse where they all told stories, still with vivid recollection, of their ...

The Memorial Day weekend could have been a downer. Before the holiday weekend even began came the news of the loss of respected horseman J.J. Crupi, who died May 23 in Maryland at the age of 79. We remember him first from his training days, winning races ''down the Shore'' at Monmouth Park in the late 1980s. He later found his true calling as a ...

Someday, hopefully in the not too distant future, all the anger, pain, frustration, and feuding that resulted from the 2019 Kentucky Derby will at least dissipate to the point where we can all move on. For some, like Gary and Mary West, Jason Servis, Luis Saez and all those who saw their scorching mutuel tickets reduced to ashes right before ...

We have seen the late defections of Kentucky Derby favorites and leading contenders before, but this was the most heartbreaking I can remember. It has created a major void in the race. But it is still the Derby and it is finally time to decipher all the clues we've been given, as puzzling as they may be. One thing is for sure, opinions are ...