So you are going to try to beat Big Brown huh? Me too. Short of hitting the superfecta or Pick 4, there is no way to make any significant money in this race if Big Brown wins. With that in mind, here is one longshot to consider in the Belmont: Anak Nakal. Anak Nakal? I know, he hasn't been better than...

By Tom Pedulla , USA TODAY BALTIMORE — For the seventh time in 12 years, a 3-year-old Thoroughbred will take unwavering aim at one of the most difficult feats in sports when undefeated Big Brown advances to the Belmont Stakes on June 7 at New York's Belmont Park. There is one reason to believe that this...

This blog is mostly a laundry list of works, but I wanted to make sure everyone was kept up-to-date with the 2-year olds. Someone please remind me not to get behind posting these again. I am also curious whether any names sound particularly interesting or meaningful to anyone. 2-Year Old Works Returning...

Tiger Rules after the race. Hardly looks like he ran. Nice tongue, however. Photo by Adam Spradling We were late getting over to the track and it was Friday, so it was pretty crowded around the paddock. Still, it didn't matter as Tiger Rules, like Mostly Peace on Wednesday, was a late arrival. I have...

Hip #35; colt, Smarty Jones - Alaska Queen by Time for a Change, worked 1/4 in :21.4. The big story of the under tack show for the 2008 April Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale at Keeneland was the Langfuhr colt who worked an eighth of a mile in :9 3/5, but there were plenty of 1st-crop sire offspring in...

Result: April 6, 2008 Keeneland Race 4 Sly Storm $5.80 $3.60 $3.00 Ghoul $4.20 $3.20 Sheltered $8.60 Sly Storm looked ready for action in the paddock before the race. Well, Sly Storm had the sales numbers and the pedigree and now she's a debut winner. She was much the best in this one, drawing off to...

The final results of the poll are in! Surprisingly, Point Given won by a large margin, garnering more than 30% of the votes. I was a bit surprised, not that you guys voted him the winner, but that he won by so much. I bet that if we took this poll again in six months, Curlin's votes would go way up!...

We have made a decision to follow as many offspring as possible of the following 1st-year stallions (in alphabetical order): Birdstone, Medaglia d’Oro, Pleasantly Perfect, Smarty Jones, and Speightstown. This does not mean that other first-year sires will be ignored, but for now they will not be monitored...

The announcer trumpeted the first of the Smarties into the sales ring at the Fasig-Tipton Calder Selected Two-Year Olds in Training Sale, but the audience was less than impressed. Two Smarty Jones’ offspring entered the ring and two went home again having not met their reserve. The star of the first...

First opportunity to see offspring of Smarty Jones in motion came at the Fasig-Tipton Calder Selected Two-Year Olds in Training Sale. The under-tack show was February 22. Three Smarties were in action, 2 colts and 1 filly. Hip #144, a bay colt out of a half-sister to Unbridled’s Song (Bells Are Ringing...