Black Caviar bearing down on Rapid Redux’s streak
Two Thoroughbreds racing half-a-world apart this year have toppled modern records for most consecutive wins....
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I’ll Have Another at 13-1 in Kentucky Derby
I’ll Have Another, an $11,000 purchase as a yearling, overtook front-runner Bodemeister in the final...
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Kentucky Brand Pipe Tobacco Derby Day Contest
An eight-year-old with pigtails walks into a neighborhood drugstore in 1954 and asks to buy...
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Connections
The field of this year’s Kentucky Derby reminds me of “James Burke’s Connections,” a brilliant...
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Kentucky Derby 2012
Post position draw for the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby is on Wednesday; the...
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Bob Baffert suffers heart attack in Dubai
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, 60, is resting comfortably after suffering a mild heart...
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“Mangled Horses, Maimed Jockeys”
A sobering feature in today’s “New York Times” details the incidences of injuries and breakdowns...
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Jim Helzer: On the cutting edge
He commands respect in both the Quarter Horse and Thoroughbred race industries through the champions...
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Rachel Alexandra delivers again
2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra – the first-ever 3-year-old filly to be named...
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In the news
Best of the Remuda Wimpys Hombre, consigned by the W.T. Waggoner Estate, Electra, Tex., topped...
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