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Who will win this year's Preakness? Who will finish last? 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/preaknessorderoffinish.xml''); To participate, use your cursor to drag the selections on the left (currently arranged in post ...

By Frank Vespe, That's Amore Stable, LLC  Most every year, there’s a local angle to the Preakness.  After all, in this faded era, the Preakness stands out as the middle jewel of the Triple Crown — and, to Maryland horsemen, our middle jewel. The Derby, of course, will always be the Derby.  But to Marylanders, the Preakness is ...

(Originally published in the May 16, 2009 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)    Speaking to shareholders May 7 via conference call, Churchill Downs Inc. president and chief executive officer Bob Evans said, “The solution for tracks without slots is to ...

The 1,600-meter French classic race run this past weekend is officially the Poule d'Essai des Poulains (Fr-I) but is probably better-known here in the States as the ''French Two Thousand Guineas.''  The English-speaking world similarly ''translates'' the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches and the Prix du Jockey Club (both Fr-I) as the ''French ...

Many Kentucky Derby winners have gone into the Preakness as the heavy favorite, and though some of them came away with a victory, there are others that failed to capture the Woodlawn vase, ending their shot at a Triple Crown.  Below are some of the notable Derby winners that did not repeat at Pimlico.  Rank them in order of the most ...

A video published May 8 of Curlin’s full brother sparked a lot of comments because the foal is seen romping in a paddock with a black and white paint mare that is obviously not his mother, Sherriff’s Deputy (who is seen at the beginning of the video). Yes, the foal is being raised on a nurse mare. ''[Sherriff’s Deputy] is simply not capable of ...

With a year and a half of the TrueNicks blog and 300-plus posts behind us, it has not escaped our attention that there are some passionate horsemen and pedigree analysts who frequent this corner of the Web. Indeed the ''TrueNicks Community'' has at times both intrigued and informed us and we are certainly thankful for this community that has ...

Well, well, well. Judging by the more than 400 responses on the previous blog, there are very strong opinions regarding Rachel Alexandra. Based on the latest revelations, I cannot wait to see the new responses. Below is an excerpt from interviews done by HRTV with Pioneerof the Nile owner Ahmed Zayat and Mine That Bird co-owner Mark Allen. ...

Courtesy of Becky Johnston  I've heard that comment over the last week with open-ended infinity.  I know our sport wants a star badly, but we have had some awfully good three-year-old fillies that beat much more difficult competition by this time in their career, or they did so throughout their classic-year campaign.  I ...

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