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Changing Plans

While I cannot agree that this year’s Wood Memorial is ‘the last major Kentucky Derby prep race — and the biggest‘ (that honor goes to the Blue Grass) it will still be fun to watch. Although I’ll be out of town and will miss watching the race live, I fully expect my TiVo to show […]

Still, You Wouldn’t Miss It For A Sack of Gold

Great Hunter makes his three-year-old debut this weekend at Santa Anita in the Robert Lewis Stakes. It seems a bit ironic that MSNBC picks up his story (via the DRF) and notes that he has been somewhat overlooked (much to trainer Doug O’Neill’s delight) — indeed, despite his Chester County roots, there’s nary a mention […]

Hospital Fun with NYRA

The best NY coverage is at Left at the Gate, but I felt I should weigh in on the hospital issue that cancelled racing at Aqueduct the other day. The jockeys want to be taken to North Shore University Hospital, rather than Jamaica Hospital whenever possible, while NYRA wants to send them to Jamaica.

Some […]

Preview

Bill Finley has a nice article on Barbaro’s yearling full brother; he still has very much of the cute colt look about him, but seems as though he could grow into a nice horse. The pressure seems to be off Man in Havana, as he’s ‘only’ a half brother; this colt and the one other […]

Local Color

Hard Spun faces off against Teuflesberg on the 13th in the Lecomte Stakes in his first foray outside the local area. In my opinion they are an intriguing matchup: three-year-olds who happen to be approaching this race from opposite ends of the spectrum — Hard Spun has never had to work too hard in a […]

Thanksgiving Racing

It’s a great holiday/racing weekend coming up — Laurel’s Festival of Racing includes the De Francis Dash which features Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner Thor’s Echo and the Laurel Futurity, a nice little two-year-old race won in the past by horses named Count Fleet, Citation, Riva Ridge, Secretariat, Affirmed, Spectacular Bid and most recently by Barbaro. […]

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