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Hard to believe that we are only two weeks away from the Kentucky Derby! Today's post is all about the sires of the horses who will be going into this…
April 21 2012, 5:54pm | Visit source ›
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Attenberg via Twitter: On Bodemeister as the Favorite
Re #kyderby138 pace and it's effect on wagering, we'll see how silly I look two weeks andfour hours from now, but if they really line up for the race with…
April 21 2012, 1:01pm | Visit source ›
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Trinniberg decision makes little sense
Life is full of decisions. Big and small, each decision helps shape the path we travel down a day from…
April 21 2012, 11:53am | Visit source ›
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Winzce: BC Juvenile graduates looking good, but Gemologist is still No. 1
We've reached the final edition of the Derby Watch for this season and if there is one thing that has stood out week after week on this list, it is…
April 21 2012, 8:42am | Visit source ›
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Mike Welsch of the DRF is reporting this morning that Trinniberg will likely be entered in the Derby in two…
April 21 2012, 7:50am | Visit source ›
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A "First-Saturday-in-May" Horse
Yes, I have been absent from blogging. Life, stuff, Twitter has gotten in the way of my posting. And still in birthday mode too. Me and Ruffian. It’s cool to…
April 20 2012, 7:27pm | Visit source ›
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Hovdey: Good luck making sense of this year's Kentucky Derby preps
Nothing’s harder in these frantic times, when the media has become not only pervasive but social as well, than catching one’s breath. Okay, maybe there is a period of relative…
April 20 2012, 4:22pm | Visit source ›
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Welsch: Gemologist, El Padrino get in works for Pletcher
Pletcher had originally planned on working Gemologist and El Padrino on Sunday, but with a forecast calling for possible heavy showers over the south Florida area all weekend, he decided…
April 20 2012, 10:28am | Visit source ›
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Union Rags Breezes at Keeneland
Chadds Ford Stable’s Union Rags breezed a half-mile in :47 2/5 at Keeneland today, galloping out 5/8s in a minute.…
April 20 2012, 8:51am | Visit source ›
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Keep up with the 2012 Kentucky Derby Contenders
It's that time of year: Now that the major preps are done, there's plenty of speculation and casemaking (both pro…
April 20 2012, 5:32am | Visit source ›
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Looking ahead to the Kentucky Derby, 1937
Racing fans in 1937 witnessed a Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes sweep. War Admiral, the son of Man o’…
April 20 2012, 5:30am | Visit source ›
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West: Will Bodemeister rewrite history?
Not since Apollo in 1882 has there been a Kentucky Derby winner who didn't race as a 2-year-old, and that's like saying "never." The history is clear: Johnny-come-latelies never win…
April 19 2012, 1:20pm | Visit source ›
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Meet the 2012 Kentucky Derby Pretenders
Toss ‘em. No chance. Throw them right out. Often when wagering on the ponies, half the battle is eliminating those…
April 19 2012, 12:44pm | Visit source ›
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Cain Oakford: Dullahan's dam could make Kentucky Derby history
Bena Halecky, an executive with Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, got the call from Phil Needham on the afternoon of January 8, 2008. Needham was Halecky’s bicycling partner, but he…
April 19 2012, 11:49am | Visit source ›
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Simon: Hansen and Bodemeister: Fire & Ice
As the field turned for home in last weekend’s Blue Grass Stakes, things were looking good for the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile champion Hansen. After breaking sharply, the son of…
April 19 2012, 11:34am | Visit source ›
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Union Rags: An American Love Story
Chapters 1 - 4 of a documentary on Kentucky Derby contender Union Rags.
April 19 2012, 8:22am | Visit source ›
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We’ll be covering the most important aspect in racing this week; the trainer. A trainer does it all. They work extremely long hours, and seven days a week. Taking care…
April 19 2012, 8:14am | Visit source ›
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Discover which prep races have produced the most Kentucky Derby winners and what that means for this year's contenders.
April 19 2012, 5:30am | Visit source ›
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Attenberg via Twitter: On Bodemeister, and the comparisons to Curlin, etc.
If you believe the stories reported on Curlin after the Derby, he took dirt in his face for the very first time in KY, he reacted to it, he was…
April 18 2012, 4:32pm | Visit source ›
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PROSPECTIVE DOING ‘AWESOME’ CONFIRMED FOR DERBY Contreras will ride John Oxley’s Prospective, the Tampa Bay Derby winner (90 Beyer) will…
April 18 2012, 11:41am | Visit source ›
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Moran: Consider the possibilities
Who do you like? This is a stupid question nowadays. How do you play the Derby? That is the question. Since 2008 -- admittedly a small sample but nevertheless current…
April 18 2012, 10:33am | Visit source ›
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Finley: Bodemeister unlikely to buck history
Bodemeister very well may be the best 3-year-old around, but that doesn't mean he's going to win the Kentucky Derby. This is the one race where it's about more than…
April 18 2012, 10:29am | Visit source ›
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My Richelieu Initiation, Bodemeister and Dullahan
On an already sweltering late Sunday morning during the summer of 1969, my uncle Benny, cigar in mouth, was putting the finishing touches on polishing his modest Ford Falcon. I'd…
April 18 2012, 8:37am | Visit source ›
