By J. Keeler Johnson ("Keelerman") Twitter: @J_Keelerman January is underway, and you know the 2020 Kentucky Derby winner is out there, somewhere. Maybe he's already won a graded stakes race, like recent...
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By J. Keeler Johnson ("Keelerman") Twitter: @J_Keelerman It seems safe to say the $400,000 Remington Springboard Mile Stakes at Remington Park is one of the fastest-growing races in North America. Just...
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By J. Keeler Johnson ("Keelerman") Twitter: @J_Keelerman It's shaping up to be a quiet weekend for racing in North America, not surprising after the all-out excitement of the November 1-2 Breeders' Cup...
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By J. Keeler Johnson ("Keelerman") Twitter: @J_Keelerman How time flies! It seems like yesterday we were hashing out the controversial outcome of the 2019 Kentucky Derby, and now here we are just two days...
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Summer is gearing down, the Hopeful and Del Mar Futurity have been run, and September means the beginning of fall. And the beginning of fall means 2-year-olds, and in this case a double dose of them. Of...
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The lamp of the Saratoga racing season had barely been lit when news came that Sea Hero, Paul Mellon’s homebred hero, had died in Turkey at the age of 29. Sea Hero’s score in the 1993 Travers Stakes (G1...
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This year’s Triple Crown series is certainly one that will be talked about for years to come, considering the contested outcome of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) and that the entire...
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While the heads in the editorial offices of BloodHorse are collectively continuing to spin from the results of the May 4 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1), there are all sorts of other...
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This is not merely the account of the agent. I have been texting with him and talking to him on the phone since January and following and chronicling every step of this, the ups and downs, as it happened...
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Several days have passed to allow the Kentucky Derby fiasco to sink in. We have had additional angles of the incident and a variety of opinions, some saying it was the right call and others saying it was...
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