With horses sired by the first three finishers of the 2007 Kentucky Derby (G1)—Street Sense, Hard Spun, and Curlin—all still on the Derby trail and with another Derby hopeful having won the Street Sense...
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It was an odd road to the 2002 Kentucky Derby (G1) for the two Derby Dominators, Bob Baffert and Wayne Lukas. Baffert and Lukas had seen one Derby hopeful after another fall by the wayside. It seemed apparent...
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Twenty years have passed since that warm June afternoon at Belmont Park when Bob and Beverly Lewis’ Charismatic made his bid for the Triple Crown. The story of his run, along with that of his rider, Chris...
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While the weather in Central Kentucky this spring has been anything but “spring like,” we can expect next year’s spring in the Midwest to be pretty heated. That intel came with an April 11 press release...
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1 Good Magic Chad Brown Curlin —Glinda the Good, by Hard Spun With the Fountain of Youth Stakes now only two weeks away, his string of strong five-furlong works continued with a 1:00 2/5 breeze, as he...
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Winning a grade 1 event with a juvenile is no small feat. For the same connections to win the same race three times in the span of nine years means there’s more at play than happenstance. Hall of Fame...
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This article first appeared in Blood Horse magazine on September 9, 2000. Let's make a horse racing movie. You know, the kind they used to make in the 1940s and ‘50s. It doesn't matter if the plot is implausible...
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Horses that capture the imagination of the racing world come along only so often. One of those was this week’s cover boy: Silver Charm. While we don’t like to admit it, it’s been 20 years since he took...
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Kentucky Derby (G1) winners carry a certain cachet, but the winner of the 1999 Run for the Roses was truly Charismatic. The memories of the coppery chestnut colt, who slipped from this earth Feb. 19 at...
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It seems as if Charismatic has been gone for ages, but leave it to Michael Blowen of Old Friends to arrange for his return to the United States. It is only appropriate that a horse named Charismatic go...
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