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Most Rick Dutrow-related discussion this week is, rather unsurprisingly, related to Big Brown's race this weekend. However, a little snippet in the TT made me wonder what else is going on behind the scenes; it would seem that Gary Contessa, who has...
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Mark your calendars for August 30th - Curlin will be heading back to dirt for the Woodward although owner Jess Jackson indicated that turf is still an option down the line : "The Arc is probably out for this year," Jackson said. "We think...
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Big Brown's narrow victory in the Haskell will likely not answer many questions; did he show great determination in running down Coal Play (this time actually beating the 'other' Nick Zito horse in the field) just at the wire or did he look...
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The Ballydoyle juggernaut rolls on; Yeats cruised to victory in the Goodwood Cup (becoming a millionaire in the process -- obviously, given the current exchange rate, he's practically off the charts in dollars). Former Horse of the Year Sergeant Cecil...
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The BBC asks whether racing is undergoing ' a renaissance ' with attendance at its highest since the second world war and two new tracks opening in the next two years. Great Leighs opened in Essex this Spring (the first new British racetrack in...
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Curlin is off the juice and set for his first turf test in the Man O' War on Saturday (after a license was granted to the receiver now handling the holding company for his minority owners, rather than to the indictees or their partners). (Majority...
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Rick Dutrow is preparing for his annual vacation banning, this time for a horse he had running on Kentucky Oaks day in the Aegon Turf Sprint who tested positive for a rather festive amount of clenbuterol : "I was there all week and am responsible...
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IEAH made a much-publicized announcement yesterday, saying that they'll be weaning their horses off the juice by October (more or less, and not counting Lasix -- one suspects the list of things that 'don't count' may grow). They did not...
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Takeover Target is an amazing horse by any standard; the Aussie sprinter has won 1 7 of his 33 starts , winning in Australia, Japan, Singapore and the UK. Now the British press wants to know whether he comes by his speed entirely honestly. Two years ago...
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Today's first point of order is a welcome to new readers from TheRail – thank you for stopping by, it's lovely to have you visit. And so on to business. As in politics, a week is a long time in horse racing. Only two short months ago, The Blood...
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In the wake of the Derby , one comment that seemed to come up often was a belief that 'too much' is asked of top-level three-year-olds at this point in their careers and that delayed training or a lighter schedule could help prevent injuries of...
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While it's Derby Works a Go-Go at the moment for the 3-year-olds, there's plenty of actual racing action going on beyond that sphere. In the 'comeback' column, first noted at Brooklyn Backstretch , 2005 Preakness runner-up/tripper Scrappy...
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Although I was duly impressed by Bellamy Road 's Wood Memorial victory back in 2005, I confess I never got on his bandwagon; I stayed with Afleet Alex , who had been my pick since before the 2004 Juvenile. (For the record, my Derby trifecta that year...
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Turf War , with Calvin Borel aboard, did nothing in the Southwest (which is finally a G3), while the much-hyped Denis of Cork (left, previously ridden by Mr. Borel) romped to victory. In only his third career start, the horse whose name sounds a bit like...
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