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When possible, I plan for foals to be born in mid-March.  It's still fairly early in the season so they'll be good-sized yearlings, but by the middle of March we're usually out of the worst that Winter throws our way here in central Kentucky.  Until two years ago, I never gave too much thought to foaling complications.  I'd read ...

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  This Month's Guest: Larry Jones, trainer of Friesan Fire, Old Fashioned and Proud Spell Podcast Available - 3/27/2009 A native of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, Larry Jones was a commercial farmer before becoming a Thoroughbred owner in 1980 and took out his trainer's license in 1982. He recorded his first stakes win with Capt. Bold at Ellis ...

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If manufacturers want to stay in business, they don’t pro-duce what they want; they produce what consumers want. Television networks try to act in exactly the same manner. Why else would ESPN need a bracketologist to tell us for weeks who might make the NCAA tournament—and who is or is not a “bubble” team—when we could just wait until the ...

 As often happens on the Kentucky Derby trail, they fell like proverbial bowling pins last weekend, although two of the bigger names reinforced their strong position. Not all the vanquished will be taken off the trail, as some deserve another chance after racing on less than desirable surfaces, but they have put themselves in a ...

Roman Ruler was tagged as the top 2009 freshman sire to watch in the February issue of The Blood-Horse MarketWatch. The son of Fusaichi Pegasus rose to the top of our list because the dams of his first crop had collectively produced more 2-year-olds stakes winners than the first books of other freshman sires. You may have read this ...

So, Larry Jones wasn't blowing smoke last summer when he told me Friesan Fire was the most talented 2-year-old he ever had in his barn. After standing in the shadow of stablemate Old Fashioned for six months, Friesan Fire has established himself as Jones' top gun. This, after dominating the Louisiana Derby by 7 1/4 lengths and making what was ...

.commentForm, .postComments, #comments{display:none;} <a href=''http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=fb2f2b395c'' >Triple Crown Talk LIVE: Saturday, ...