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[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/gknapp_large.jpg'']Dr. Gary Knapp[/image] In 1973, Dr. Gary Knapp was inspired by the great Secretariat to buy a Kentucky farm and get involved in the Thoroughbred business. Thirty-five years later, the Minnesota native is the breeder of Big Brown. A 64-year-old entrepreneur, Knapp formerly ...

[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/shaskin_large.jpg'']Steve Haskin[/image] Blood-Horse senior correspondent Steve Haskin returns to Talkin' Horses for a special Belmont Stakes (gr. I) preview. Now that Big Brown has won the first two jewels of the Triple Crown and moved on to New York, Haskin will be spending plenty of time ...

[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/jsquires_large.jpg'']Jim Squires[/image] Jim Squires is the breeder of five graded stakes winners, including Monarchos, winner of the 2001 Kentucky Derby. He is an owner of Two Bucks Farm, Versailles, Kentucky and manager of Two Bucks Stable, which has 8 horses in training. In a previous life ...

A host for HRTV since its inception and a simulcast television commentator from the paddock at Santa Anita and Oak Tree beginning in 1993, Jon White has been involved in racing since he joined the Daily Racing Form in 1974 at Playfair Race Course in his hometown of Spokane, Wash. He also spent three years as a licensed Thoroughbred owner in the ...

[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/albarado_large.jpg'']Robby Albarado[/image] Jockey Robby Albarado was born Sept. 11, 1973 in Lafayette, Louisiana. He now lives in Louisville, Ky. with his wife and three children. Like many other great Louisiana riders, Albarado started riding the bush tracks in his home state. He scored ...

[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/shaskin_large.jpg'']Steve Haskin[/image] With the Derby preps nearly complete, and the field for the Run for the Roses coming into focus, it's time for Blood-Horse senior correspondent Steve Haskin to do his annual Derby Preview on Talkin' Horses. Haskin is an award-winning Turf writer ...

[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/swaterman_large.jpg'']Dr. Scot Waterman[/image] Dr. Scot Waterman, who is executive director of the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium (RMTC), received his veterinary degree from the University of Illinois College Of Veterinary Medicine in 1990. After spending eight years as a private ...

[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/henneganbrothers_large.jpg'']John & Brad Hennegan[/image] After working for others for too many years, Long Island, New York natives and brothers John and Brad Hennegan quit their jobs and started working for themselves on a project that they believed in. Their goal was to make horse ...

[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/remibellocq_large.jpg'']Remi Bellocq[/image] The son of acclaimed equine cartoonist Pierre 'Peb' Bellocq, Remi Bellocq has spent a lifetime around the horse industry. Raised in New York and New Jersey, Bellocq had an opportunity to witness some of racing's greats on the New York racing ...

[image url=''http://cdn.bloodhorse.com/images/content/rshapiro_large.jpg'']Richard Shapiro[/image] Shapiro has served as chairman of the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) since January 1, 2006. Since being appointed to the CHRB in 2005 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shapiro has been extremely active as a racing commissioner, spending a ...