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(Originally published in the April 30, 2011 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)   We are approaching the Triple Crown season, the highest point of interest in our sport each year and the ideal opportunity to promote horse racing and grow its fan ...

 (Originally published in the April 30, 2011 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)    Some sports feats are nearly impossible to attain, such as pitching a no-hitter, sinking a hole in one, or breaking Wilt Chamberlain’s 1960 record 100 ...

(Originally published in the April 30, 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 Thoroughbred racing took a major hit last week with the passing of Jess Jackson, as provocative and energetic an owner as ...

  1 Uncle Mo Todd Pletcher Indian Charlie—Playa Maya, by Arch Boy, am I going to get hammered for this move. I just cannot come up with a #1 that I’m totally comfortable with, so I am going back to the horse most people thought was a superstar only a couple of weeks ago and who had an encouraging 5-furlong work Tuesday. He’s been ...

Ponche de Leona was three weeks overdue. The 9-year-old mare kept showing signs she was about to foal, and her owner Carole Rio, who leases 40 acres of Rose Grove Farm near Ocala with her husband John, had been staying up day and night with her. Whenever she was unable to, John would take over. They eventually decided to put her out in the field ...

Blaming my Derby winner choice on ''The World's Most Interesting Man'' is not too far from fact. Stay Thirsty caught my attention last year, less due to his skill, and more for the very fact that ''Stay Thirsty My Friends'' is the tag line to one of my favorite television commercial campaigns in the last year. I am a media man, so I tend ...

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Before we get really perplexed and befuddled by the morass of statistics, opinions, and rumors, here is one person’s opinion of the best of what we have and what we’ve seen, listed by categories. You may be surprised by the horse who finished first in the most categories and who could be a very live Derby horse at a decent price, but we will ...