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(Originally published in the February 6, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)       The road to the Triple Crown trail has begun, and in less than three months, all eyes will be focused on Louisville, Ky., May 1…then Baltimore, ...

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 1 Buddy's Saint Bruce Levine Saint Liam—Tuzia, by Blushing John Staying sharp for debut in Fountain of Youth with pair of 5-furlong works in :59 3/5. Remsen form hasn’t held up, with subpar efforts by Homeboykris and Citrus Kid, but he did beat them easily and won with something left.  2 Lookin at Lucky Bob ...

The Turkish Jockey Club has enrolled six stallions in TrueNicks - recent acquisitions Dehere (TrueNicks,SRO) , Cuvee (TrueNicks,SRO) , Lion Heart (TrueNicks,SRO) , Powerscourt and Yonaguska (TrueNicks,SRO) as well as Victory Gallop (TrueNicks,SRO). Turkey is the latest stop for U. S. Champion Two-Year-Old Dehere after standing in America, ...

With a little over 300 stallions and 2200 broodmares, the Venezuelan breeding industry is growing steadily and the importation of three stallions, now subscribed to the TrueNicks stallions subscription program, show how their investment in thoroughbreds is starting to increase and should reap benefits in years to come. Great Hunter ...

By Alex Waldrop, President and CEO of the NTRA  I just spent a fascinating two days at the Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship at the Red Rock Resort, Spa and Casino in Las Vegas. I met scores of dedicated, loyal horseplayers and talked to many about ''the game'' and what they believe horse racing needs to ...

In September, if you were to poll writers and horsemen on who they thought the best 2-year-old Kentucky Derby prospect was, there is a good chance Dublin would have been at the top of the list. A couple of sound defeats and four months later, the son of Afleet Alex seems to have fallen off the radars of many of those same people. According to ...

El Corredor (TrueNicks,SRO) is off to a very good start in 2010, and when El Caballo took the Colonel E. R. Bradley Stakes (gr. III), he followed the Santa Ysabel Stakes (gr. III) victress Crisp, as the second graded winner of January for the sire. El Caballo, a six-year-old gelding who was beaten a nose in the Mervin Muniz Jr. Handicap ...

I voted for Rachel Alexandra for Horse of the Year because I thought she accomplished more in 2009 than Zenyatta. Those that voted for Zenyatta made a solid, well-informed decision. Who can argue with someone who voted for a mare that was unbeaten during the year and won the Breeders’ Cup Classic (gr. I)? I can’t, but I do disagree—vehemently and ...

We have to wonder if there has been a more prolific family in the last couple of years than that of the Verbatim mare, Right Word, the dam of three stakes winners: the graded scorer Ascutney and Words of War (both by Lord At War) and Word o’ Ransom (by Red Ransom). Ascutney is dam of two graded winners, headed by Raven’s Pass, winner of the 2008 ...