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I thought it would be fun to look at two mares and have everyone vote for the ''better broodmare.''  To keep it fair, I selected two mares recently offered for sale at about the same price and both located in Kentucky.  I guess I was inspired by Alan Porter's recent comments about Runaway Groom -- both of these mares have connections to ...

  A co-worker and I were talking about a horse named Sheltowee recently. Sheltowee is a 2-year-old colt in training who is being followed via our Maiden Watch Blog. There is a trail that stems through several states in this region, including Kentucky and the Smokie Mountains of Tennessee. It is named the Sheltowee trail. The Sheltowee is a ...

The Runaway Groom branch of Blushing Groom (FR) had a very useful weekend. Runaway Groom's son Najran was represented by the third graded winner from his first crop when Wasted Tears took the Ouija Board Distaff Handicap (gr. IIIT). Proving herself a true daughter of her sire -- who equaled Dr. Fager's world record for a mile on dirt -- Wasted ...

It has been more than a year a half since Triple Crown Talk launched, and let me begin by thanking everyone for helping to make this the top horse racing blog on the web. I am consistently impressed at the amount of knowledge and lively discussion that comes across the board. It is much appreciated. As regular followers of this blog know all too ...

''I like big butts and I cannot lie'' -- it's a line from an old rap song, but it's also something that seems to run constantly through the minds of yearling buyers as they look at young horses. They want big butts, big bodies, and big muscles, seeking an ideal that was made popular by Hall-of-Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas. They really don't care ...

The 2009 running of the Oaks d'Italia (Ity-II) went to the Peintre Celebre filly Night of Magic (IRE). Night of Magic is out of a mare by Platini (GER)  (by the great German sire Surumu (GER)) and from a German family that goes back to Catnip (IRE), the granddam of Nearco (ITY). Rated A++ by TrueNicks, Night of Magic has more recent ...

Although the Belmont is the longest of the three Triple Crown races, it has produced some of the closest finishes. Which of these close finishes (less than a length) would you rank as the most thrilling? 1867 – The filly Ruthless by a head over DeCourcey in the very first Belmont1962 – Jaipur by a nose over Admiral’s Voyage 1965 – Hail to All ...

The father and son team of Machiavellian and Street Cry (IRE) (TrueNicks,SRO) made their presence strongly felt in last few days. Machiavellian's daughter.Criticism (GB) (TrueNicks A+), one of three stakes winners for her sire out of Caerleon mares, took the Sheepshead Bay Stakes (gr. IIT) May 23 at Belmont Park. The granddam is the ...