The West Coast has applied a choke hold on the 3-year-old male division for the past three years, yet it annually continues to let its stars escape to Eastern climes without a fight following the Triple...
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No one is expecting all the big names in racing to make the Breeders’ Cup Classic, but one can always hope, especially when you have a year like this with such a wide variety of talent gearing up for a...
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California Chrome certainly proved his superiority by winning the $10 million Dubai World Cup Sponsored by Emirates Airline (UAE-I) and avenging last year's second-place finish, but jockey Victor Espinoza...
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Usually a handicap race on a Thursday afternoon wouldn’t attract that much interest around the editorial department of Blood-Horse. However, the race Feb. 25 at Meydan Racecourse featured the star attraction...
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If California Chrome were on Facebook, here are some comments you might be reading, and I don’t mean all those human run Facebook pages. I mean comments from the real thing. Well, so to speak. *******...
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Just days before it was reported July 12 that California Chrome would miss at least three months of racing because of a cannon bone bruise, Larry Bramlage talked about that type of injury at the Welfare...
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International Star winning the Louisiana Derby. - Order This Photo Photo by Hodges Photography/Lou Hodges When 2-to-1 favorite International Star edged Stanford by a neck in the Louisiana Derby (gr. II...
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By J. Keeler Johnson ("Keelerman") @J_Keelerman The last Saturday in March is a day that I mark on my calendar far in advance each year. Without question, it is one of the best days of racing every year...
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From a physical standpoint, Shared Belief has as much in common with Forego as David did with Goliath. From a popularity standpoint, he doesn’t have anywhere near the following that Kelso did. In fact...
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By J. Keeler Johnson ("Keelerman") The showdown that racing fans have been anticipating for weeks came to fruition last Saturday, as 2014 Horse of the Year California Chrome squared off against 2013 champion...
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