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Courtesy of Becky Johnston  This 2009 Derby field with the apparent quality and then Alysheba's memorial service this week brought back a flood of memories.  Then add to that the sight of the Scharbauer colors on Silver City last Saturday in the Derby Trial, and, well, my mind fell only one way.I have a great fondness for ...

Courtesy of Rob Fundter, The Amateur Capper   AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES:  PART 2 – THE UNDERSTUDIES I'm writing this on early Tuesday a.m. Eastern.  The defection of G.1 Florida Derby winner QUALITY ROAD is known, narrowing my top prospect list from Part 1 to three:  FRIESAN FIRE, I WANT REVENGE, and PIONEEROF THE ...

The big day is almost here. No, not the Derby; having to make selections, which will be in Friday's column.  In the meantime, he are a few late odds and ends. Read the full column here.

In a big weekend for Cal-breds, two sires had a particularly good time. The blazingly fast but lightly-raced Storm Cat son Tribal Rule (TrueNicks,SRO) was represented at Hollywood Park by Rule the Storm, who took the Warren's Thoroughbreds Stakes, and by Tribal Justice, successful in the Grey Memo Stakes. In his first three crops, Tribal ...

The victory of Winter View in the Grey Goose Bewitch Stakes (gr. IIIT) last week gives us the opportunity to give a call to a great value racehorse sire, and to note the further deeds of a family that is currently on fire. TrueNicks rated A+, Winter View is by 1995 champion 3-year-old Thunder Gulch (TrueNicks,SRO) . Now 17 years old Thunder ...

My Blood-Horse colleague David Schmitz posted an interesting look at the 2009 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I):  Kentucky Derby by the Numbers: Dosage Dilemma.  He includes a nice summation of the Dosage calculation and what it represents -- and pedigree watchers will note that Derby winners rarely stray from the ''rule'' ...

Following Monday’s flurry of workouts, it was all about I Want Revenge on Tuesday, as the likely Kentucky Derby favorite had the center stage all to himself. Read full column here. 

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. ...