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Hello everyone, here is GREAT news on our beloved Arrrrr! --- Posted by Susan on 5/11/2010 Good news! Arrrrr's trainer at Penn National - Mike Salvaggio - just retired him. The horse was vet scratched in a $4,000 claimer at Penn National on May 1. He was telling them he didn't want to be a race horse any more, and they listened. The new ...

A talented son of Smart Strike (TrueNicks,SRO) emerges as a leading Kentucky Derby (gr. I) hopeful; the race goes to a rival who benefits from a rail-hugging ride from Calvin Borel; but the Smart Strike son rebounds to prove his classic credentials in the Preakness Stakes (gr. I). If that sounds like ''déjà vu all over again,'' it is, because the ...

The tossing and turning began at about 11:30 Saturday night, shortly after I slipped into bed. The cold sweats started not long after that, and I was awoken by the first nightmare at about 3 a.m. A second nightmare followed at about 7 a.m., just as my 2-year-old son was waking up. For some of the sleepless night I thought about I would have done ...

The 135th Preakness Stakes (gr. I) will be run Saturday, May 15, 2010. Post time is 6:12pm EDT. Click the link for each contender to view a complimentary report.   1 - Aikenite (20-1) FREE TrueNicks report for Aikenite 2 - Schoolyard Dreams (15-1) FREE TrueNicks report for Schoolyard Dreams 3 - Pleasant Prince (20-1) FREE ...

While I will not be at Pimlico this weekend to see Super Saver attempt to take the second jewel of the Triple Crown, I am eagerly anticipating the outcome of all the events of the next couple days, one of them being the Lady Legends For the Cure Race, a $30,000 six-furlong allowance on the main track for 3-year-olds and up May 14. Like many other ...

Will it be Super Saver again in the Preakness? Will Lookin At Lucky find redemption? Or will it be one of the new faces? Now is your chance to see how your picks stack up against the rest of the BloodHorse.com community. writeRanker(''http://i.bloodhorse.com/xml/ranking/2010PreaknessOrderFinish.xml''); To participate, use your cursor ...

As I spelled out in a blog earlier this week, I think Super Saver will have a tough task winning the Preakness, but I also think the Derby winner will run well and would be surprised if he didn't hit the board. I just believe he is worth trying to beat. I would be surprised if Super Saver wasn't on or very close to the lead this time, ...

In the Dwyer Stakes (gr. II), Fly Down (TrueNicks A++) staked a claim to be considered a Belmont Stakes (gr. I) prospect, with a six lengths tally. He is from the third crop of Mineshaft (TrueNicks,SRO), as is this year’s Risen Star Stakes (gr. II) winner Discreetly Mine. Both of these horses are out of Damascus-line mares, Discreetly Mine from a ...

(Originally published in the May 15, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.) For the last few years the mainstream press has told us Thoroughbred racing needs a Triple Crown winner, another Seabiscuit, a “big horse,” to save racing. While that ...

By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRA   I have been blogging about the NTRA Safety & Integrity Alliance for almost two years now.  What happened this week was some of the best Alliance news yet.  Pimlico has now been fully accredited. Why is this development such good news?  Because, just prior to the 2009 ...