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The 2011 Triple Crown season has been a tough riddle to solve from the very start of the year, and leg two is equally as challenging. The Preakness is normally a more formful race than the Kentucky Derby, but when you have a 20-1 winner and a bizarre pace scenario, it raises major questions about how true the race was--at least for me. The pace ...

(Part V and final entry of a blog authored by Mike Repole, owner of champion 2-year-old Uncle Mo) I'd like to start out by thanking the racing fans and Uncle Mo fans, especially those that have reached out to me verbally, by email, through letters, and on Mo's Facebook page. Your support and concerns about his health mean more to me ...

Kentucky Derby 137 has come and gone, and before we move on to the Preakness let's take a few moments to dissect the race. I have several observations, but let's start out with the winner. Congratulations to Team Valor, Graham Motion, John Velazquez, and the people that correctly sniffed out Animal Kingdom as the winner. He was a horse that I ...

Let me start out by saying that I have no idea what to do with this Kentucky Derby. I have thought that Uncle Mo was a standout for months now and had he not gotten sick would have been all in on him. Now that he is not running, nothing in this hodgepodge collection of 3-year-olds stands out to me. I will gladly offer my thoughts on this blog, ...

Finding value in the Kentucky Derby is rarely an issue, and that is especially true this year. The wide-open nature of this group means that nearly every horse--save Dialed In and Uncle Mo--will be double-digit odds on Saturday and will help trigger potentially huge exotic payoffs. The trick is, we have to find the right ones to ...

(Part IIII of an ongoing blog authored by Mike Repole, owner of the previous Kentucky Derby favorite, Uncle Mo) Wow, what a difference three weeks can make. On April 3, I was sitting comfortable with two horses that were on almost everyone's top 5 Kentucky Derby lists, including Uncle Mo, who was undefeated and the horse to beat. After ...

After scanning many of these current Derby lists (which, by the way, mean less this year than any other year, if that's possible), the consensus seems to be that the favorite is Dialed In. Rounding out the top 5, in no particular order, are Archarcharch, Nehro, Toby's Corner, and Uncle Mo. The interesting thing about the new consensus top 5 is ...

A little more than a week ago, after Uncle Mo went down in the Wood Memorial, I wrote that Kentucky Derby 137 had become a free-for-all. After watching The Factor flop in the Arkansas Derby and a couple of more upsets in major preps, I would like to rephrase: Derby 137 has become crapshoot. It's never a good idea to label a 3-year-old ...

The Arkansas Derby is the final major prep race that will be run and it has become the most important one of the season. With only three weeks until the Kentucky Derby, we are without a standout favorite. The only horse that can change that is The Factor. If he wins the Arkansas Derby on Saturday, whether it's by a nose or seven lengths, he ...

At 5:52 p.m. EDT on April 9, Kentucky Derby 137 officially became a free-for-all. Uncle Mo's defeat in the Wood Memorial was shocking. There is no getting around it. Very few people expected the undefeated 2-year-old champ and Derby favorite to get beat, let alone challenged, by a seemingly overmatch field that did not include a single graded ...