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Who will win this year's Kentucky Derby? 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/derby2009finish.xml''); To participate, use your cursor to drag the selections on the left (currently arranged in post position ...

There is no secret of who the four favorites will be when post time rolls around in Derby 135 - I Want Revenge, Pioneerof the Nile, Dunkirk and Friesan Fire. All of them will likely be under 10-1, and for different reasons each of them have a good chance to win the race. But today I'm going to make a case for five longshots. While each of these ...

The Kentucky Oaks has grown tremendously in stature in the past 40 years, with the purse going from about $40,000 to $500,000. There have been many fantastic fillies to win the race in that span.  We've listed ten of them; take a look at the list then rank them from 1 through 10. ...

It was Tax Day, and I was finishing up the MarketWatch Index calculations for the 2008 freshman sires. I re-sorted the spreadsheet so the sires would rank from highest to lowest by their MWIs, expecting to see Tapit rise to the top. But he didn't. Tapit was second to Stroll, the grade I-winning son of Pulpit who was bred and raced ...

Courtesy of Lisa Grimm, Superfectablog.com   The Courier-Journal notes that all sixteen 'prominent' horses should make the Derby field this time around; it's a bit ironic that in a year which seems to have a much stronger group of three-year-olds than we have likely seen for some time, we may not hit the maximum field of twenty. ...

The paddock is a popular place at old Atlantic City In walks Tom DeMartini with a s**t-eating grin on his face after a traffic jam on the Schuylkill Expressway turned a 90-minute trip into a three-hour journey. Never mind that. It's good to be back, isn't it, my friend? This is New Jersey racing as we remember it, and it doesn't ...

(Originally published in the May 2, 2009 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)   This time of year people invariably talk about, and write about, the “racing gods” and “Derby gods.”Of course, we all know what really wins Kentucky Derbys is horses and ...

The historic Haunui Farm of Auckland, N.Z., has become the first Southern Hemisphere farm to subscribe its sire roster to TrueNicks, allowing breeders to run complimentary matings with the stallions Iffraaj, Elusive City, and Don Eduardo. Iffraaj (GB) (TrueNicks,SRO) was a three-time group II winner over seven furlongs in England, taking the ...

There’s lots to catch up on, with several works of interest over the weekend and a star-studded array of works this morning. Read full column here.

Courtesy of Susan Dalebroux, Post Parade   The grooms call him ‘Superpony'. Less than year ago, 2001 Texas Horse of the Year, Lights On Broadway, was purchased off the back of a slaughter truck for $200.  And after a few lackluster cheap claiming races, he was acquired by a group of energized horse lovers and shipped off ...