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Perhaps none of the past weekend’s workouts was more anticipated than the main track work by Animal Kingdom, who has never run on dirt or worked over it all year and who had his first scheduled dirt drill canceled last week due to bad track conditions at Churchill Downs.The good news is that his work was exceptional. He was able to make a couple ...

 First off, before we get to the Uncle Mo and Stay Thirsty works, let’s at least acknowledge both colts for getting this far. The two Mike Repole-owned and Todd Pletcher-trained colts are the only horses from the Grey Goose Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I) that are still around. Boys at Tosconova, Rogue Romance, Jaycito, J P's Gusto, and ...

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  1 Uncle Mo Todd Pletcher Indian Charlie—Playa Maya, by Arch Boy, am I going to get hammered for this move. I just cannot come up with a #1 that I’m totally comfortable with, so I am going back to the horse most people thought was a superstar only a couple of weeks ago and who had an encouraging 5-furlong work Tuesday. He’s been ...

Ponche de Leona was three weeks overdue. The 9-year-old mare kept showing signs she was about to foal, and her owner Carole Rio, who leases 40 acres of Rose Grove Farm near Ocala with her husband John, had been staying up day and night with her. Whenever she was unable to, John would take over. They eventually decided to put her out in the field ...

Blaming my Derby winner choice on ''The World's Most Interesting Man'' is not too far from fact. Stay Thirsty caught my attention last year, less due to his skill, and more for the very fact that ''Stay Thirsty My Friends'' is the tag line to one of my favorite television commercial campaigns in the last year. I am a media man, so I tend ...