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I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year and express our sincere appreciation for the support we experienced in 2018 from our readers and advertisers. Our flagship BloodHorse magazine has continued to improve as the only weekly magazine dedicated to covering the Thoroughbred industry with circulation increasing year over year. Our year-end ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you didn't blink, or you might have missed the first Road to the Kentucky Derby prep race of 2019—the schedule kicked off right away with the January 1st Jerome Stakes at Aqueduct, and the series will continue this Saturday with the Sham Stakes (gr. ...

Ready to test your handicapping skills in a series of informal handicapping contests? Then you've come to the right place! Every Saturday, the Unlocking Winners readers gather to share their selections for eight major race across North America and occasionally the world. Winning isn't easy, but the victor takes home the prestigious honor of ...

Another Derby Dozen draws near and that means the same old formulated thinking and same old logic and same old historical perspectives, with only the names of the horses changing. Uh, not so fast. That had been my thinking every year since Derby Dozen began for Bloodhorse in 1999 and on Derby Watch for Daily Racing Form from 1992-1998. But ...

Last week on Twitter we were interested to see if there were any thoughts on the most popular nick ratings. After getting the seeds of some ideas for what constituted a the most tried/successful nicks, we decided to gather the data, as one should, to see what story was told. In order to make it fair we stuck to the following: Direct ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman When handicapping major turf races in California, I am usually of the opinion that shippers from the East Coast have an advantage. With the powerful stable of trainer Chad Brown based out east, and with the majority of the richest turf races taking place across the region's numerous ...