It's a bit of a quiet week; Curlin had a workout to prep for the Jockey Club Gold Cup on the 27th and Colonel John became one of the first Breeders' Cup contenders to work over Santa Anita's new surface . Like Big Brown and a number of other potential starters, he will not have another race...

In my previous post I felt that the Goodwood BC made sense for Curlin. A prep race over the new Pro-Ride >> surface, and then being bedded down and avoiding the cross country shipping for the Classic seemed a likely move. To me this was quite a logical step, and would have prevented the embarrassment...

Saratoga Springs, New York So while the august owners of Big Brown await the creation of a phony grass race at Belmont Park or more likely Philadelphia Park to accommodate their bloated egos, feed the bankroll without taxing their overblown animal, the rest of the three-year-old division will gather...

Until tomorrow afternoon's post position draw, the only Derby trail action is analyzing (and overanalyzing) the contenders' works and every possible bit of data available, no matter how tangential. To that end, I always look forward to playing with the C-J Derby Data Track (and was pleased to...