Your task is simple. I want your Overall pick for the WINNER of the Kentucky Derby 136 and tell me why. Then I want who will be second and third. Finally, who is your sentimental pick for the race, unless you are Dray and choose the chalk =) Overall pick: Lookin at Lucky Comment: Derby has been on Baffert...

We all know that Santa loves making lists, checking them at least twice. Surely he also has a list of his early top 12 picks for the Kentucky Derby of 2010! If only two-year-olds would fit under a Christmas tree, and I found a nice Medaglia or Giant's Causeway or Empire Maker or Candy Ride or Street...

If one of my favorite bands of all time is The Police, then why can't one of my favorite sweets of all time win...Chocolate Candy? Truthfully I expect Pioneerof the Nile or Quality Road to win the derby. Photo: S. Dorman Caption: Giacomo Many of you have negative thoughts on closers in the race with...

Beginning next week, we'll start analyzing the Derby field closely and talking about our picks. For now, there is still some sorting out to do and workouts to watch. In this blog, I present one very simple question: Which Derby horse has the best story behind it? In other words, if you could pick one...

My horses had a big weekend, including several old friends. How did your's do? Winning feels good..., but I need to learn to take my own advice. Opening day of Keeneland was a little cool and overcast, but that wasn't going to keep me away. The crowd was small, and I was a little concerned about the...

If you all read my last blog from March 27 , you know that Elizabeth Arden's Jet Pilot won the 1947 Kentucky Derby, and that Arden had established herself as the queen of cosmetics and a super power in the business world. Read that blog if you have not to get the background surrounding Jet Pilot, his...

The other day, I was channel surfing and came across an interesting title on KET - the Kentucky Public Broadcasting Television Network. The show was Powder and Glory about Elizabeth Arden . I then asked myself Is that the make-up chick or fashion lady? And of course it was, but it was about to talk on...