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For your convenience, we offer a bit of a metapost today, featuring some highlights from TBA blogs (but certainly not doing justice to all of them): Railbird is keeping track of this week's drug issues (and Barry Irwin's response) as well as Man...
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While there are many column inches being spilled (and rightly so, it's an interesting story) on Casino Drive , my pick for the Peter Pan (and the Belmont) is still Tomcito . We will see both horses in action tomorrow in the Peter Pan. I think that...
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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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By now, the news that Rags to Riches has been retired is common knowledge; while the official story is that she re-injured the leg she fractured last year, one does wonder whether (for which read 'if') that happened during or after a nice workout...
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Rags to Riches retires , heads off to see Giant's Causeway. Sigh. Read More...
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While I was very excited to see Rags to Riches (right, in a great photo by Fran ) back on the worktab (and in a bullet, no less), I noted that Lava Man had re-appeared as well. I suspect that his best days are behind him, but if he's really up for...
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The big question from this past weekend is what to make of the Fountain of Youth results -- do they really tell us anything at this point? Nick Zito's Cool Coal Man won, but the timing of the race had to be adjusted after an outrider apparently tripped...
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The Eclipse Awards presented (in the words of Radiohead) no surprises; Curlin was duly crowned Horse of the Year and Three-Year-Old Colt - ESPN notes that only last year, he had yet to make his first start . Chief owner Jess Jackson continued to send...
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The World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings were recently released; Curlin is the highest-rated US-based horse, coming in tied for second with Authorized , Dylan Thomas and Invasor (despite his retirement early in the season). Street Sense , English Channel...
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2008 is here at last, and while it remains a slow news week, let's finally get to our 2007 recap. First, we'll revisit the biggest news stories in racing in something approaching chronological order: Barbaro's death: for those of us working...
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