1 Good Magic Chad Brown Curlin —Glinda the Good, by Hard Spun He followed up his :48 2/5 half-mile work with a solid five-eighths drill in 1:01, third fastest of 28 works at the distance. The Champagne...
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1 Good Magic Chad Brown Curlin —Glinda the Good, by Hard Spun He’s starting to get serious, breezing a half in a bullet :48 2/5 at Palm Meadows, fastest of 37 works at the distance. He has a solid enough...
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1 Good Magic Chad Brown Curlin —Glinda the Good, by Hard Spun It’s not every day you see a horse ranked No. 1 who broke his maiden in November in his last start. But then again, that maiden win came in...
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Thoroughbred racing is all about information and the constant quest for answers. We are provided with information in the past performances, in the pedigrees, in the workouts, in backstretch gossip and...
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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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Last week I wrote about the dramatic decline in the number of top stars participating in the big Breeders’ Cup preview weekends. Whether or not this is the beginning of a new trend likely will depend on...
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It's one thing to pass the torch, but the torch Bob Baffert's horses have passed the last two years has been more like an inferno. Winning the Triple Crown is the ultimate achievement in Thoroughbred racing...
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When the Secretariat rocket ship soared to a galaxy never before reached in his 31-length procession in the Belmont Stakes, it gave the colt an aura of invincibility and made it seem inconceivable that...
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Racing fans, in their own innocent and well-meaning way, can be selfish. And when I say racing fans, I am covering a broad spectrum, from the casual fan to the media. When we choose our icons, it is usually...
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By J. Keeler Johnson ("Keelerman") Twitter: @J_Keelerman Get ready, everyone! A very busy weekend of racing is on schedule, led by a terrific series of graded stakes races at Belmont Park. They included...
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