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Courtesy of Becky Johnston  The last twenty years should bring these things to mind when you handicap the Kentucky Derby 1) Did the horse run his best race in winning his last prep or did he run good enough to win, leaving something in the tank 2) If he did run his ''best'' race did it come at least 4-5 weeks out from the ...

Courtesy of Fran Jurga Has the nationwide obsession with the economy (Just how poor am I? I dunno...how poor are you?) pushed some other close-to-the-heart issues to the back burner? A press release published Thursday in Washington informs us that US Representatives Jim Moran (D-VA) and Elton Gallegly (R-CA) will co-chair the newly formed ...

  This Month's Guest: Mark Taylor, vice-president Taylor Made Public Sales Podcast Available - 3/5/2009 A native of central Kentucky, Mark grew up working around Gainesway Farm where his father Joe was manager for forty years.  In 1991 Mark graduated from Clemson University with a B.A. in English. Upon graduation, Mark returned to ...

With all the buzz surrounding Rachel Alexandra's sparkling win in last weekend's Martha Washington Stakes at Oaklawn, I thought it would be a good idea to catch up with Hal Wiggins. Though the veteran trainer did not say his talented filly would be pointed towards a Derby run, he definitely left the door open. I'm not sure what to make ...

I have a couple of ''rants'' left in me, but I think I'll hold off on any more of my promised snarkiness for a while. Before I start looking at pedigrees again (watch for my early Kentucky Derby picks soon, and a return of ''Is This a Broodmare?''), though, I wanted to address someone else's small ''rant'' in a comment from a previous ...

Following the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. February select sale of 2-year-olds in training, OBS general manager and director of sales Tom  Ventura warned not to look at the sales results and assume they will be the  trends for the rest of the juvenile selling season. He did have a good point because only 154 horses were offered at the ...

There has been a lot of talk on this blog about Old Fashioned's performance in the Southwest. Considering what he did in the Remsen, was it all that we expected out of his 3-year-old debut? Were the relatively average final splits (:51 1/5) too slow for a legitimate Derby favorite? Was his victory just an average showing based on a) less than ...

By Frank Vespe, That's Amore Stable, LLC When True Quality (Elusive Quality-Louve Mysteriuse, by Seeking the Gold) snuck off to win yesterday's Grade II General George at Laurel, he not only earned his first graded stakes victory but also struck a blow for that hoary old chestnut of name type: the aspirational name. There are several common ...