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• Lane's End A Polytrack Showcase?

  With a field as wide-open as this weekend's Lane's End , it's hard to feel quite as engaged as usual; it seems to be becoming less of a Derby prep and more of a showcase for Polytrack specialists. Halo Najib seems a deserving favorite, given... Posted Mar 20 2008, 11:50 AM by SuperfectaBlog Filed under: Media, War Pass, Synthetic surfaces, Afleet Alex

• Tear The Picture Off The Wall

  This past weekend's Derby preps weren't much help in terms of bandwagon-jumping; War Pass finally had a bad day and the relatively-unheralded (although previously a second place finisher to Denis of Cork ) California-bred Sierra Sunset took the... Posted Mar 18 2008, 12:21 PM by SuperfectaBlog Filed under: Curlin, Asiatic Boy, War Pass, Premium Tap, Books, The Green Monkey, Synthetic surfaces, Big Brown, Jalil

• Big Cap Weekend

  The Big Cap is truly big this year -- it equals 2002's 14-horse field as the largest in the past 25 years. In Lava Man's absence , a number of legitimate contenders have stepped into the fray -- Awesome Gem (right), Student Council and Go Between... Posted Feb 29 2008, 11:00 AM by SuperfectaBlog Filed under: Great Hunter, Tiago, Synthetic surfaces, Ladies' Day

• So It'll Be Fine Then, Right?

  Word is in that Santa Anita will be entirely replacing its ill-fated Cushion Track surface after they squeak by to the end of this season: "No one is aware more than I am that we will have the Breeders' Cup here two years in a row," said... Posted Feb 21 2008, 03:09 PM by SuperfectaBlog Filed under: Synthetic surfaces