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Rachel Alexandra in her Stonestreet paddock, May 2012. I’ll take any excuse for a Rachel Alexandra post, and Melissa Hoppert…
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Beyer: If Orb is going to win, I want like to see him deliver a truly great effort. He could…
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An athletic chestnut boasting a white star on his forehead, Easy Goer was nearly a second coming of his sire,…
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Ten Things You Should Know: Preakness
A clock malfunction, a change of venue, a notorious party scene and a pristine piece of art are just a…
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Bred in the East Coast, I was the product of a real family affair, from breeder, to owner, to trainer.I…
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It’s Saturday afternoon, and Shug McGaughey sits placidly in a chair in the shedrow of barn 20. Intent on his…
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Chris Rossi looks at the three Preakness Stakes winners in the last 20 years who didn’t start in the Kentucky…
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The Preakness: The Lost New York Years
The Preakness is Maryland’s race: it’s “Maryland, My Maryland” and black-eyed Susans and blue crabs. It’s so important to the…
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Preakness: The Lost New York Years
The Preakness may be Maryland's signature race, but like most cool things, it spent some time in New York!
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And Down the Stretch They Come: The Triple Crown's Middle Child: Preakness Memories
Everyone in the state of Kentucky is more than well aware of the Derby even though it's the "baby" of the family having its first running in 1875 when the…
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Monmouth Park, Battleship, and countdown to the Preakness
Happy opening day to Monmouth Park – one of our favorite tracks here at the home office. I came across…
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Orb: Continuing Ruffian's Legacy
Some paragraphs drawn from "Orb: A Classic Kentucky Derby Victory"“…Ruffian was more than just another transient champion passing through. She…
May 11 2013, 4:30am | Visit source ›
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McGraw: Love Affair With Swale Extends Well Beyond His Death
In 1984, I was in the seventh grade, and I fell in love with Swale, who looked very much, I thought, like the picture of the Black Stallion on my…
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History And Horse Racing On Brooklyn’s Sportsmen’s Row
An archaeologist by training, Lucas Rubin has spent a good deal of his life immersed in the past. He also…
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Bred in Kentucky, my sire retired undefeated and my broodmare sire was a Preakness winner.I ran in only one leg…
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Preakness winners 2001-2012, where they finished in the Kentucky Derby, and their Preakness odds / Kentucky Derby winners, where they…
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Funny Cide and Mine That Bird at Churchill Downs
Funny Cide Mine That Bird Funny Cide Mine That Bird Funny…
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Whirlaway’s Kentucky Derby, 1941
In retrospect, all Triple Crown winners were born to be great. However, if we rewind to April and May of…
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2013 Kentucky Derby History Watch
Nothing impresses more than a well-timed historical nugget to fill an uncomfortable silence at your favorite Kentucky Derby party or…
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Ten Things You Should Know: Kentucky Derby
The most famous race in the U.S. was first run in 1875 but didn't become a national sensation until 1915,…
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Goldberg: 2 Storied Lineages Share a Kentucky Derby Favorite
The silks are as recognizable as any in American racing — black with a cherry cap and white with a cherry sash — but neither has ever been graced with…
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2013 Kentucky Derby Picks, By The Letters
The annals of the Kentucky Derby are full of winners whose names ring with grandeur: Lord Murphy, Kingman, His Eminence,…
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A Kentucky homebred, I raced three seasons for my longtime owners.My sire won all of his stakes at two, his…
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And now he’s in the Hall of Fame. There was some grumbling on Twitter about 2006 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner…
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Steppenwolfer’s life after Derby loss is rosy
He took to her farm and grass like somebody really had “promised him a rose garden,” and in time his aloof demeanor softened to reveal that he is really a…
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Where have all the Triple Crowns gone?
Growing up in one of the golden ages of horse racing I became spoiled. Great horses came along on a…
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The Rule Rather Than the Exception
When I mentioned the 1983 Derby winner Sunny's Halo in the last post, I seemed to recall, through the haze…
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Hersh: For Kentucky Derby contenders, practice makes perfect
The work snafu might or might not have played a part in Easy Goer’s defeat by Sunday Silence in the Derby, but it demonstrated on a grand stage how easily…
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Cain Oakford: Legendary Overbrook Farm stallion Storm Cat dies at 30
Storm Cat, the prominent American stallion who sired champions on both sides of the Atlantic and inspired multi-million-dollar bidding wars for his foals, died Wednesday at age 30.
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He Alone Made it What it is Today
A look at the man, and filly, who transformed the Kentucky Derby into the institution it is today.
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