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The Florida Derby is this weekend, which means we are starting to hit the home stretch. After this weekend and next, which gives us the Illinois Derby, Wood Memorial and Santa Anita Derby, we will finally have a good idea of the half-dozen or so horses with legitimate chances at taking the roses. It's starting to get exciting. The Florida Derby ...

By Dana Byerly, greenbutgame.org It isn't easy finding the right date for the big dance. (ronstarr64) Let's face it, we know just enough about our Derby suitors to start some serious speculation. Have you been writing The Pamplemousse over and over again in your notebook? Did your mom totally yell at your for doodling I Want Revenge on ...

If Sir Thomas More was the man for all seasons then Giant's Causeway (TrueNicks,SRO) is the sire for all-weather. Although he's also had plenty of top-class runners on dirt or turf, there is no mistaking that his offspring are just killers on synthetic surfaces, be it California's more turf-like version, or the deeper Turfway Park going that ...

The Pamplemousse, a Triple Crown candidate and the winner of the Sham (gr. III) and San Rafael (gr. III) Stakes, wasn't the star of the show at last year's Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. March select sale of 2-year-olds in training. While his $150,000 price was above the auction's all-time-high average of $143,262, it didn't come close to sale peak for ...

Lost in the overwhelming spectacle of the Kentucky Derby and the arduous road leading to Churchill Downs are the little-known ironies and twists of fate that get played out behind the scenes. There was an old TV series, based on a movie of the same name, called “Naked City,” which offered a gritty look at life in New York City. At the end of ...

Now firmly-established as the heir to Sadlers Wells, Galileo (IRE) had a transatlantic double at the weekend. In Ireland, Oh Goodness Me (GB) (out of Coyote (GB) by Indian Ridge (IRE)) flashed her classic credentials in the Lodge Park Stud E.B.F. Park Express Stakes (Ire-III). On the same afternoon, 4-year-old Dress Rehearsal (IRE) (out of ...

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NEWS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFriday, March 20, 2009Contact: Robert Bolson, Director of Corporate MarketingBlood-Horse Publications(859) 276-6809; rbolson@bloodhorse.comBLOODHORSE.COM LAUNCHES 2nd ANNUAL VOTING CONTEST ''MARCH INTO MAY''''Who is the greatest Kentucky Derby champion of all time?'' Racing fans get their chance to decide. 64 ...

NEWS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, March 19, 2009Contact: Robert Bolson, Director of Corporate MarketingBlood-Horse Publications(859) 276-6809; rbolson@bloodhorse.comBLOODHORSE.COM'S ''TALKIN' HORSES'' NEXT GUEST: LARRY JONESThis month's guest: Trainer Larry Jones, who won the Louisiana Derby with Friesan Fire and finished second in the ...

  Okay, the truth is, trainer Larry Jones will discuss Thoroughbred pedigrees and breeding only if YOU ask him to. Jones will be the next guest on Talkin' Horses, an interview that is conducted with questions submitted by readers of BloodHorse.com.  The problem (as I see it) is that most Talkin' Horses segments attract a viewership ...