Curlin put on a good show for his supporters as he took to the main track at Santa Anita on Monday in a public workout going 5 furlongs officially in :59.11.  The son of Smart Strike galloped out in 1:12.14.  Ron Correll has a full write up with juicy quotes and all over at Trackside [...]

Interesting title, huh? Wait a minute…what’s going on here? Have I lost my mind and joined the dark side of the force? Apologizing to Rick Dutrow? Well, not exactly an “apology” in the proper sense of the term, just a little change of direction and an indication that perhaps it’s...

Photo by Vanessa Ng at www.horse-races.net See all her photos along with the race write-up here: http://www.horse-races.net/library/arc08-results.htm Well, if you’re like me, it’s always a good day whenever you see new Vanessa Ng series of photos for a major race, and that’s exactly...

Curlin - The all time money winning horse. I got on this horse’s bandwagon on the first Saturday in May last year at Churchill and never got off. Though he was beaten that day, I was so taken with his presence, size, and strength. I again returned for this year’s Derby and saw a more [.....

  He did it!!! Curlin, the 2007 Horse of the Year, has broken the all-time earnings record for a North American thoroughbred held since 1996 by the great Cigar. Curlin thundered home in the slop at Belmont Park becoming only the 9th horse in history to capture consecutive Jockey Club Gold Cup victories...

All eyes in the world of thoroughbred horse racing will be firmly fixed on defending 2007 Horse of the Year winner Curlin as he goes for history this Saturday in the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park.  If he can pull out another victory, the talented son of Smart Strike will pass [...]

Big Brown is a force of nature, and you have to respect him as racehorse no matter what you think of his connections. His start today was an excellent effort over a rather soft course, and Desormeaux never had to get into him through the lane. He was pushed early, but it didn’t seem to [...]

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...

Owner Jess Jackson made it official today, the defending 2007 Horse of the Year will next be seen in the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park on September 27.  The decision ended a bit of speculation as to where exactly the popular son of Smart Strike would next point.  Rumors had circulated...

Racing truly needs Curlin to run in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. The race is suppose to be the Superbowl of racing, the pinnacle of our sport. We need the best of the best to duke it out, mano a mano. In this case a classic without Curlin and/or Big Brown would be lacking and ordinary [...]