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We're still three and a half months away from the Kentucky Derby, and as everyone knows, a lot can happen between now and then. But acknowledging that, you would be hard-pressed to find many that would say Lookin at Lucky is not the solid favorite at this point. Lookin at Lucky has won five of six with his only loss coming by a head in the ...

(Originally published in the January 16, 2010 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)      Jockey Calvin Borel had another excellent year in 2009, but his 2010 has not started out so well. On Jan. 5 the Kentucky Racing Commission not only ...

Actually this post is as much about Prince John as it is about Halo, but “Prince John effect” doesn’t have quite the same ring. What turned our mind to the connection between the two, and more particularly it’s current effects, was the victory of Custom For Carlos in the Mr. Prospector Handicap (gr. III). Custom For Carlos – who strikes us as ...

The 3-year-old filly Rachel Alexandra, winner of all eight of her starts in 2009, including the Preakness Stakes, and the 5-year old mare Zenyatta, who won all five of her races last year and culminated her undefeated career by becoming the first female to win the Breeders' Cup Classic, are the only two candidates for Horse of the Year. ...

  Russell asks: Why are the ratings found in the Stallion Affinity Report not the same as the ratings obtained by running an individual mating? As an example, Storm Cat over Yonaguska gets a TrueNicks rating of A+ according to the sample affinity report shown for Storm Cat. I ran my Yonaguska mare, Bella Cherokee, with Frost Giant ...

The newly retired Dunkirk (TrueNicks,SRO) (http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/54701/classic-placed-dunkirk-to-stand-at-ashford) is the latest addition to the TrueNicks roster. At $3.7 million he was the top selling yearling in North America in 2007. He was visually impressive in a pair of Gulfstream Park victories last winter before ...

Welcome back to Triple Crown Talk. I look forward to helping everyone get excited about the 2010 Kentucky Derby and providing information about the leading contenders. I already know there will be lively discussion, so I'm not worried about that. I thought a great way to kick off the season was to talk to Todd Pletcher, who is always a ...

Kipling (TrueNicks,SRO) began his career in Oklahoma, joining the Crestwood roster after Kip Deville emerged as one of the better middle distance turf runners of the decade just past. He has a good a pedigree as any stallion anywhere, being by Gulch out of Weekend Storm, a daughter of Weekend Surprise. Weekend Storm has held up her end of the ...

If you follow horse racing closely, you are no doubt aware that a large number of Mid-Atlantic racetracks and OTBs are being denied the right to offer simulcast wagering on races run at Gulfstream Park in South Florida, Fair Grounds in New Orleans and Santa Anita Park in Southern California -- three prime winter racetracks.  Basically, the ...

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