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The following is a photo gallery of a typical morning with Belmont Stakes contender Union Rags. All photos by Steve Haskin Union Rags in paddock after gallop Union Rags bright and alert Feeling good Anxious to get it on Maintaining his flesh beautifully Looking good Heading to the ...

OK, let’s get this straight, just to make sure we’re not all being Punk’d. The California Horse Racing Board, in all its divine wisdom, has decided to dredge up a nearly two-year-old carbon dioxide overage on a Doug O’Neill-trained horse and make a ruling on it two weeks before O’Neill will attempt to sweep the Triple Crown with I’ll Have Another, ...

.commentForm, .postComments, #comments{display:none;} Join Jason Shandler and Tom LaMarra for a Live Blog at NOON EDT on Preakness Day, May 19. <a href=''http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=6da1a39619'' >Triple Crown Talk ...

Here we go again. This is where we left you two weeks ago; trying to decipher a formula of countless possibilities.In the case of the Preakness Stakes (gr. I), it’s all about pace and what impulses are going to dictate the actions of jockeys Mario Gutierrez, Joel Rosario, and any other rider who has to decide just how big they want Bodemeister’s ...

Will it be I'll Have Another once again? Will Bodemeister get revenge? Or will one of the new players take the Black-eyed Susans? Submit your choices, and compare with the community. writeRanker(''http://i.bloodhorse.com/xml/ranking/2012PreaknessOrder.xml''); To participate, use your cursor to drag the selections on the left (currently ...

For the first eight months of his career, everything went right for Creative Cause. Is it possible for everything to then go wrong in the next six weeks? Yes, according to a great many experts and anyone else with an opinion on the do’s and don’ts of Triple Crown training.Trainer Mike Harrington found himself thrust on the Derby scene and out of ...

Then and now. Along the drive through historic Sagamore Farm, with its idyllic pastures, gently rolling hills, and spectacular vistas, you pass a small unobtrusive barn that at first doesn’t look like a barn at all, due mainly to its garage doors that were installed years ago to replace the old existing traditional barn doors. Inside, there is ...

We recently wrote about the possibility of I’ll Have Another sweeping the Triple Crown. So what if we’re getting ahead of ourselves. After 34 years (and we’ve been there through all of them) we’re entitled to think or dream ahead. So, does the son of Flower Alley have the ideal preparation and foundation for such a daunting task? Not if you go by ...

Each year, we go through the same routine, analyzing the winner of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) in an attempt to convince ourselves that he is the next Triple Crown winner. We compile all his attributes, enhance his strong points, and usually deduce that he can indeed accomplish racing’s most elusive feat. We start to get ...