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On January 24, we will kick off the 2017 Derby Dozen on Bloodhorse.com. Ever since my Daily Racing Form colleague Steve Feldman and I inaugurated the first Derby Dozen in 1993, analysis of the early Kentucky Derby contenders has become a rite of winter. As I watch the first snow of the winter fall on Hamilton Square on a cold gray morning I ...

The holiday cheer still lingers, the trips to the gym haven’t yet slowed to a crawl, and we’re whistling past the mailbox dreading the day the Visa bill arrives. Until then we are thinking of the better days ahead in 2017…and there are two things that tell us of good things to come. News from the National Thoroughbred Racing Association on Dec. ...

It is 2017. That means it’s been 50 years since Thoroughbred racing entered, encompassed, and changed my life, altering its course forever. It pulled me out of the frenzied, often cutthroat world of Wall Street and brought to my life a passion and a spirit I had never experienced before. For half a century I have tried to share that passion and ...

There are three things that exemplify the best in the Thoroughbred industry: its history, the work ethic of its successful players, and their pure class. While assembling the “Milestones” section of this week’s year-end issue, several names of those who have passed in 2016 reminded us of why those three “legs” prop up the sport. We’ll focus on a ...

And they’re off, and it’s Mattress Mac first out of the gate in the inaugural Pegasus Preliminary Probe, Pursuit, and Purchase. Yes, Jim McIngvale, who had been under the false impression he could get sprint champion Runhappy to fill his $1 million spot in the new 1 1/8-mile Pegasus World Cup Invitational January 28, has ventured down below ...

A little over a week ago Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors scored an unheard of 60 points in only 29 minutes, without playing at all in the fourth quarter. All anyone could do was to speculate how many points he could have scored had he been given the opportunity. Although Wilt Chamberlain’s other worldly 100 points seemingly is ...