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1 Always Dreaming Todd Pletcher Bodemeister—Above Perfection, by In Excess This move will draw mixed reviews, and it is understandable. We’ll see after Saturday’s Blue Grass if this will be a permanent home for him. Sometimes a special horse can transcend speed figures early in their career, and this colt took a sledgehammer and shattered ...

Some masterpieces are done in oil, others in clay. In the world of Thoroughbred racing and breeding, masterpieces are created in the minds of breeding experts. But calling John Nerud just a breeding expert is like saying Da Vinci was just an artist. In the true meaning of multi-talented genius, Nerud was a brilliant horseman, marketer, ...

While we were watching the Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline (G1) from afar—from the home office near Versailles, Ky.—the strength of Arrogate’s last-to-first run was beyond compare. Even the following day, or day after that for that matter, it’s hard to come to grips with just how special this horse is. To have witnessed it live may ...

In the emotional frenzy of Arrogate’s incredible victory in the Dubai World Cup, social media, as if often does, has run amok with comments, running the gamut from Arrogate being the greatest horse of all time to the greatest horse since Secretariat to the greatest horse of the 21st century to being an over-hyped horse who hasn’t beaten anyone ...

1 Gunnevera Antonio Sano Dialed In—Unbridled Rage, by Unbridled After a nice easy 5-furlong breeze he stepped it up with a good sharpener in 1:01 4/5 at Gulfstream Park West in his final drill for the Florida Derby. Working alone, he cut the corners tightly, hugging the rail on both turns, and was striding out beautifully at the wire. ...

Sometimes in Thoroughbred racing we have a tendency to spew out superlatives in the immediate aftermath of a spectacular performance. We start comparing the winner to the greats of the past, and then, like always, time has a way of tempering our spontaneous hyperbole and jolting us back to reality. So, following Arrogate’s mind-boggling ...

It’s hard enough to train a Thoroughbred and be able to bring out their talents. But when they have a mind of their own and keep fighting you, it makes the task extremely difficult and taxing on the nerves. To borrow a line from the movie A Bronx Tale, “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.” The question right now with Classic Empire as ...

Even one hundred years after his birth—March 29, 1917—Man o’ War remains one of the biggest names in racing. While the black-and-white photos and grainy video footage of Man o’ War might be fading, his legend—20 wins in 21 starts during a golden age of sports in the 1920s—still thrills us. He topped “The Blood-Horse’s Top 100 Racehorses of the ...

1 Gunnevera Antonio Sano Dialed In—Unbridled Rage, by Unbridled Returned to the work tab with an easy 5 furlong breeze in 1:04 3/5 at Gulfstream Park West (formerly Calder), with exercise rider Edgard Zayas crouched down and hands motionless. The colt seemed his usual enthusiastic self as he jogged on his toes alongside the pony and was ...