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With Kentucky Derby (gr. I) winner Animal Kingdom not scheduled to arrive at Pimlico until Saturday, the focus was on…well, everyone else.First, let’s look at the post position draw, which was fairly uneventful. The most interesting aspect of it was the placing of the four speed/pace horses, Flashpoint (post 4), Shackleford (post 5), Midnight ...

Who will win the 2011 Preakness Stakes, and who will finish last? Will Derby winner Animal Kingdom take the second leg of the Triple Crown? Will it be one of his Derby foes, like Dialed In or Mucho Macho Man, instead? Or will one of the new shooters, like Flashpoint or Astrology, be wearing the Black-Eyed Susans? Need more information about the ...

  It wasn’t over the course of the mile and a quarter Kentucky Derby (gr. I) that Mucho Macho Man went from being a big gangly kid to a man. It wasn’t over the last half-mile of the race or even the last quarter. It was only in the last 100 yards that the proverbial light bulb went on and Mucho Macho indeed became a man. Let’s not forget, ...

In the last 10 years of the Preakness Stakes, we have seen many impressive winners. But, what if they were all in the same race? How do you think that they would finish? Assume a fast track and clean trips for all. writeRanker(''http://i.bloodhorse.com/xml/ranking/Preakness2001_2010.xml''); To participate, use your cursor to drag the ...

Gently rolling hills and wide open spaces. Winding horse paths that rise and dip ever so slightly. Forest trails that lead to expansive fields. The singing of the birds the only sound.Welcome to the idyllic horse heaven known as Fair Hill, located just a few miles from the Maryland--Delaware border. Nestled away in a quiet corner of this equine ...

Who will win the Peter Pan Stakes (gr. II), and who will finish last? Will Joe Vann produce a Bold Deed, and say Adios Charlie? Or is it time for a Tap Attack from Beer Meister? Now is your chance to see how your picks stack up against the rest of the BloodHorse.com community. Need more information about the Peter Pan? Read the race preview, ...

By Jennifer Wirth, of The Saturday Post When I was a twenty-year-old college student, I paid a visit home to my mother one weekend.  It wasn’t your typical visit home from college.The reason I had come home that weekend was because my mother had just undergone one of her many chemotherapy treatments in her fight to survive breast ...

Do you remember the episode of “Seinfeld” where George Costanza decided to do everything the opposite of what he normally would do even if it defied all logic, etiquette, and political correctness? Well, it worked for him, so we felt, with the utterly confusing state of this year’s Kentucky Derby, this was the perfect time to test that approach. ...