No major stakes has undergone more changes than the Woodward Stakes, once regarded as the maker of champions, as it often was in the Woodward Stakes that horses clinched Horse of the Year honors. Inaugurated...
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By J. Keeler Johnson ("Keelerman") Twitter: @J_Keelerman Action on the road to the Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I) at Churchill Downs picked up last week with a couple of major races for three-year-olds...
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When the “the field is sent on its way to the roar of the Del Mar crowd,” is announced by Trevor Denman, and racing also returns to Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York, the Thoroughbred sport in North...
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By J. Keeler Johnson ("Keelerman") Twitter: @J_Keelerman Races with just five starters are typically the type that get racing fans stirred up and excited, but from a sporting perspective it will be hard...
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The older I get the more Oscar Wilde’s words ring true – “The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.” In many ways, my mind has not advanced at the same rate as my number of...
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While many of the leading Preakness contenders are preparing for the second jewel in the Triple Crown at Churchill Downs and Belmont Park, several of them coming out of the Kentucky Derby, there is one...
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Last weekend’s Wall Street Journal (Oct. 28-29) featured an article “101 Things to Do Before You Die (At Age 101),” that includes such items as No. 1: “Drive cross-country. Any country,” and No. 76: “Accept...
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The big preps for this year’s Breeders’ Cup have come and gone. Grade 1 races were going off at the drop of a hat—and that hat was dropping all the time—earlier this month at Belmont Park, Keeneland, and...
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By J. Keeler Johnson ("Keelerman") Twitter: @J_Keelerman How fast the summer has flown by! Believe it or not, this weekend will bring the Saratoga and Del Mar meets to a close, but fortunately for racing...
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By J. Keeler Johnson ("Keelerman") Twitter: @J_Keelerman While the upcoming Saturday of racing at Saratoga is exceptional from start to finish-there are seven graded stakes races on the card, including...
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