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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 ...

Some sale toppers become successful racehorses. Others are never heard from again even though their conformation and pedigrees suggested they could become elite athletes. The jury is still out on Cocalero, but he made his career debut May 8 and broke his maiden by 1 ¾ lengths at seven furlongs at Belmont Park (VIDEO). Last year, he was the most ...

As of Monday afternoon, it looks as though there is going to be a full field of 14 for the Preakness. Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver will have no easy task if he is going to take the second leg of the Triple Crown--for many reasons. The son of Maria's Mon will not have the advantage of having a win--or a race--over the Pimlico oval, as he did ...