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It would be harsh and simplistic to say the Breeders’ Cup Classic is a mess, but that pretty much describes it. Case in point, there is a fairly good possibility that the winners of the Jockey Club Gold Cup, Awesome Again, Travers, Woodward, Dubai World Cup, and Suburban Handicap will not run. You had a 1-5 shot get beat by a 25-1 shot in the ...

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By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman A tremendous week of horse racing lies ahead at tracks across the globe. Eight ''Win and You're In'' qualifiers for the Breeders' Cup are on the agenda, plus three Kentucky Derby prep races in California and Europe. For passionate fans of the sport, it's going to be an unforgettable ...

Every good story in Thoroughbred racing leads to another. Case in point, the stakes results at Parx Racing and Belmont Park Sept. 21 drew a straight line to Central Kentucky, and specifically to the Keeneland sale grounds where the 13-session September yearling sale was nearing completion. At Parx, jockey Sophie Doyle earned her first grade 1 win ...

Racing used to be so cut and dry. It was easy to determine whether a race was good or bad just by handicapping it, watching it, and assessing whether it was a classy performance against classy competition and just how good the winner was. There usually weren’t any real human interest, Cinderella stories to cloud your vision. It was all about ...

It is appropriate that the New York Racing Association moved the Kelso Handicap from its fall Super Saturday card, where it was pretty much lost, to its own weekend. Now the focus is not only on those versatile horses prepping for either the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile or the Classic, but on one of the all-time great Thoroughbreds for whom the ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman With a purse of $1 million, Saturday's Pennsylvania Derby (gr. I) at Parx Racing has attracted some of the best three-year-olds currently in training. ''Currently,'' of course, is the key word, since many of the division leaders (Country House, Sir Winston, Game Winner, and now ...

One of the old adages of the Thoroughbred industry is “there are no secrets in racing.” Whispers burn up the backstretch, making it nearly impossible to hide a sharp 2-year-old working lights out toward its debut. Rumors swirl around stallions for weeks in advance of a press release noting they’ve been sold domestically or overseas. Well, ...

There are two elements that create interest in the Breeders’ Cup and help promote the event on a national scale. One is to have a superstar like American Pharoah or Goldikova or Enable to look forward to, preferably in the Classic as a rousing final act. The other is to have an epic showdown between two popular superstars, such as Easy Goer ...