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 (Originally published in the May 14, 2011 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)      Ken Ramsey is an industry Breeder and Owner. By any measure Ken Ramsey had had an outstanding Keeneland spring meet. He and his wife, Sarah ...

(Originally published in the May 14, 2011 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)   Hollywood screenwriters could not have scripted a better story for racing partnerships than what unfolded on Oaks and Derby days at Churchill Downs. Stables ...

Graham Motion stood outside Barn 22 the morning of the $2,171,800  May 7 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) and admitted he had no idea what to expect from Team Valor International’s Animal Kingdom, who was about to make his first career start on dirt. Motion was well aware that no horse had ever won the Derby making his dirt ...

This year’s Kentucky Oaks and Kentucky Derby week was definitely memorable to me—from the heartbreaking phone call I made to John Greathouse about his ill-fated filly Devil May Care, to the quiet beauty of the descending twilight on Oaks night, to the thrilling Derby finish of Animal Kingdom and the realization I had scored the biggest triumph of ...

Saturday’s Kentucky Derby (gr. I, video below) was, we suspect, a history-making one on more than one count. We have a strong suspicion that the winner, Animal Kingdom, is the first horse to capture the Run for the Roses on his dirt debut, and we’d also nominate him as candidate for the title of “Derby Winner With the Most International ...

By Jennifer Wirth, of The Saturday Post When I was a twenty-year-old college student, I paid a visit home to my mother one weekend.  It wasn’t your typical visit home from college.The reason I had come home that weekend was because my mother had just undergone one of her many chemotherapy treatments in her fight to survive breast ...

Do you remember the episode of “Seinfeld” where George Costanza decided to do everything the opposite of what he normally would do even if it defied all logic, etiquette, and political correctness? Well, it worked for him, so we felt, with the utterly confusing state of this year’s Kentucky Derby, this was the perfect time to test that approach. ...

People have been asking me for days who my picks are for the Kentucky Oaks. It’s hard this year, because there are so many great stories behind these fillies and their connections, and for sentimental reasons alone, I would be happy if almost any of them won. That’s definitely not always the case with a race like this. Aside from the sentimental ...

Let me start out by saying that I have no idea what to do with this Kentucky Derby. I have thought that Uncle Mo was a standout for months now and had he not gotten sick would have been all in on him. Now that he is not running, nothing in this hodgepodge collection of 3-year-olds stands out to me. I will gladly offer my thoughts on this blog, ...