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(Originally published in the January 19, 2019 issue of BloodHorse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Dr. Ted Hill With the NFL playoffs upon us and the recent announcement that the chief state steward at Turfway Park will explain disqualifications while a replay is televised, I ...

(Originally published in the January 5, 2019 issue of BloodHorse magazine. Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column.)  By Edward L. Bowen For a 19-year-old groom during a summer between college semesters the sense of being on the inside of the game brought a knowing smile the morning one of the ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman In what can easily be billed as the first big weekend of racing in 2019, Gulfstream Park will host a stakes-packed card led by the $9 million Pegasus World Cup (gr. I) and the $7 million Pegasus World Cup Turf (gr. I), while on Friday, Oaklawn Park will join the action with the ...

There have been so many key players in the Thoroughbred industry who have passed in the last several months it’s hard to keep pace. While not a breeder, owner, or trainer, the late Morton Cathro was a keen student of the game and loved it dearly. A good handicapper but a much better historian, our man Mort died a few months ago at the age of ...

1 Game Winner Bob Baffert Candy Ride (ARG)—Indyan Giving, by A.P. Indy We won’t see him until March in the San Felipe, but it’s going to take some huge heroics to knock him off the top spot before then. Any doubts about him were erased when he overcame a bad trip to win the Sentient Jet Breeders’ Cup Juvenile going away. You couldn’t ask ...

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 ...