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Bob Baffert has had many important horses in his Hall of Fame career, topped by the obvious names, Silver Charm, American Pharoah, Justify, Arrogate, and Game On Dude. But there is one horse rarely mentioned that is one of the most important horses he has ever trained, from a professional and personal standpoint. Most people naturally assume ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman I don't think there's any question that Saturday's $200,000 Lecomte Stakes (gr. III) at Fair Grounds is shaping up to be by far the most competitive Road to the Kentucky Derby prep race so far in 2019. Even with a couple of scratches expected, a huge field will line up in the starting ...

Mobile phone carrier Verizon ran ads over the last two weekends during the NFL playoffs with their spokesperson offering an “either-or” scenario of the company’s attributes to his friend Darrell. When the spokesperson tells his buddy not to worry, that Verizon has both qualities, his pal says: “Why didn’t you just lead with that?” In our newsroom ...

Fifty Years. Half a century. A lifetime ago. Seems like yesterday. There is something about anniversaries, excluding weddings and births, that make us remember events we normally don't give that much thought to. When you reach way back and pull out a 50th anniversary, it brings your life into perspective. There is no year in memory that ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman Every winter, with the Road to the Kentucky Derby drawing plenty of attention from racing fans and handicappers alike, there tends to be more talk than usual about pedigrees—who's bred for dirt, who's bred for turf, who's bred to run 1 ¼ miles on the first Saturday in May, ...

As we chased down one of many angles of the back story of Gunmetal Gray following the 3-year-old’s dramatic last-to-first victory in Santa Anita Park’s Sham Stakes (G3), J.R. Boyd of Brick City Thoroughbreds near Ocala, Fla., gave props to bloodstock agent Steve Shahinian. When the same names pop up over and over throughout the years while being ...

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