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  • Unlimited Budget is expected to face males in Belmont Stakes 2013. Posted 1 day ago
  • Verrazano will make his next start in the Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth on 6-16. Posted 1 day ago
  • Dreaming of Julia will make her next start in the Mother Goose at Belmont on 6-22. Posted 1 day ago
  • Game On Dude worked 4f in :50.60 (28/36) at Santa Anita on 5-20. Posted 1 day ago
  • Overanalyze, breezing for Belmont Stakes 2013, went 4f in :47.50 (3/34) at Belmont (dirt training) on 5-19.Posted 2 days ago
  • 2013 Belmont Stakes hopeful Palace Malice breezed 4f in :47.49 (2/34) at Belmont Park (dirt training) on 5-19. Posted 2 days ago
  • Coffee Clique romps in the Selene Stakes!Posted 2 days ago
  • Royal Delta breezed 4f in :52.03 (15/23) at Belmont Park on 5-19. Posted 2 days ago
  • Oxbow and Gary Stevens wire the Preakness!Posted 3 days ago
  • Skyring goes all the way in the Dixie! Posted 3 days ago

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With Triple Crown Mania come and gone, can someone just tell me who the best three-year-old is?Read More
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  • kay.robinett · do they wear special shoes for traction on the ice? · 1 hour ago ·
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  • LAZMANNICK · I believe they wear some type of ice picks in their shoes for traction. · 46 minutes ago ·
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I beleive pletcher is gonna enter a rabbit in the belmont stakes cause I see no speed to contend with oxbow. And if Oxbow goes three quaters in 1:14 or slower he will be very tought to beat in his high crusing altitude
  • Sullivan · Still think Oxbow doesn't want 12 · 4 hours ago ·
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  • Dressage3295 · I don't think he wants it either cocoa. However, with how slow the Belmont has been in the last few years with a lack of stamina, it would not be surprising to see Oxbow in the top three · 1 hour ago ·
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With a storys left unfinished you can never say he truly was the best 3 year old last year by far.
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  • Dressage3295 · I was not a fan of IHA in the beginning, but his Preakness won me over. I thought for sure he wasn't going to catch Bode, but man did he prove me wrong! It's been a while since we had seen a good one like him, and I believe we would have seen a lot more. With such a slow Belmont time, he would have been stalking the pace and surely easily overcome all of them with such a huge kick. And even if he didn't (very unlikely), he would have been incredibly competitive with the older males later in the year IMO · 1 hour ago ·
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  • RichChatter · 'like' on your comment, Dreesage. :) I feel the same. There have only been two 3yos in the past decade I feel had a HUGE shot at the Crown after the Derby. Those were Barbaro and IHA. I just wish they would of gotten the chance. · 33 minutes ago ·
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what Triple Crown winner (excluding Secretariat for obvious reasons) do you think was the best?
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  • travel_vic · citation was never the same after the bow · 2 hours ago ·
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  • Dressage3295 · I don't know how I would rank them, but my family is huge Count Fleet fans and it would be blasphemous not to rate him near the top · 1 hour ago ·
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If could travel back in time for five minutes and spend that time with one horsemen, who would it be? I think it's between Alfred Vanderbilt, Matt Winn, Sunny and Ben Jones, in my opinion.
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  • kay.robinett · How about the Duke of Cumberland? Bred both Herod and Eclipse, and after he died his breeding records were destroyed. Wouldn't you love to talk to a great breeder like him to find out his methods and thoughts? · 2 hours ago ·
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  • Dressage3295 · Frank Whiteley. He trained some good ones and was quite knowledgeable · 1 hour ago ·
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i think he would have won the Triple Crown.
  • Dressage3295 · I think so too. Pretty much dominant among the 3 yr olds and held his own and won against some excellent older males. I loved his Belmont run · 1 hour ago ·
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  • RichChatter · I have to agree with that. · 37 minutes ago ·
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obviously the 103 beyer in the Bayshore is going to pop out at alot of people for Declan's Warrior but i think there someone in here can beat him. Pletcher is putting up 30% first off of claim and add Rosario to that i could see a good trip for Battier
In your opinion, who was/is the most influencial sire of all time?
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  • Jay S. · tv, if "tad" means completely tilted to one side and blind to all other opinions, then...yes, I guess so. :) · 2 hours ago ·
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  • AmbitiousD · Eclipse · 1 hour ago ·
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In your opinion, who is/was the most underrated (yet proven) racehorse of all time?
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  • RichChatter · You talkin' about the Secretariat movie, kait and sullivan? Don't even get me started on THAT piece of [insert not so nice word here] XD · 1 hour ago ·
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  • Dressage3295 · As historically incorrect as that movie is, you have to credit it for getting the sport more attention · 1 hour ago ·
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Allow me to pose this question: If you could be a jockey and go back and ride any horse in any race, who would it be?
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  • RichChatter · Hmmm. Barbaro in the 2006 Kentucky Derby. There were of course more accomplished horses, but most of ya know my undying love for that horse and that race. Though I think to ride Man O' War would of been pretty sweet, too. · 1 hour ago ·
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  • AmbitiousD · If I had to opportunity to change history, then War Admiral in the Great Match Race. If history would remain the same, then I would say Damascus in the '67 Woodward, or Affirmed in the '78 Belmont Stakes. · 1 hour ago ·
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#7 Corporate Culture...i think u can toss last race..didn't seem to like the dirt..returning now to turf in a class drop...and getting Johny V on the whip for the first time..horse usually responds to that...watch out.
who do you think were the top horses in the 1990's?
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  • travel_vic · Lure is listed in the top 100 of the century as suggested by the BloodHorse · 4 hours ago ·
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  • RichChatter · Pretty much every horse mentioned in this thread deserves to be on the list of best of the 90's, no doubt. (Still love Skip Away most of this decade though!) · 1 hour ago ·
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Lemon Song coming off a long layoff, but workouts have been solid..20-1 could be overlay??
really solid field in this race to open up Bel card. Hot tempo i think is one you need to look out for...really am anxious to see how Maximova runs..I think Simuli is underlay IMO..Allydorable i've been following and has been running really well. Good field, excited to see race
Mr. Sherman Are you aware a horse you trained Badgett Catt was sold at auction to a KILL BUYER for a mere $200 this beautiful animal ran as recenteely as 3/2013. Please you might not be the one responible for this but you could be part of a solution for the future horses that are being thrown away. Please speak out there are so many going thru Auction every week..
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  • Sullivan · Why is unacceptable to consume horse? · 4 hours ago ·
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  • kay.robinett · Sullivan, there are dangerous drugs in the meat of horses who are offtrack. Some countries ban meat from race horses just for that reason. I think bute is a particular culprit in making the meat dangerous for humans. Personally I would never eat horse, dog, or cat, as I view them as beloved companion animals, (I would not eat great apes or whales/dolphins, either, as I view them as being somewhat sentient beings). But that is just me. I know that animals most Americans would never dream of eating are readily consumed elsewhere, and vice versa. · 2 hours ago ·
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Even though she won the G1 Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh in Ireland last September as a 2yo, connections of G1 English 1000 Guineas winner, Sky Lantern, have opted to pass on running her in the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh this Sunday and have instead decided to supplement her into the G1 Epsom Oaks field in early June.
was most unfortunate being born the same year as the Bid.
  • travel_vic · Good horse track record holder at Saratoga for years, BUT he was no where near the top that season even if Bid was not around · 2 hours ago ·
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  • kaitlinefree1 · Golden Act & Flying Paster were good too. · 2 hours ago ·
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Probally the single greatest belmont ever after secretariat. Cause no one but colin wins a mile and a half race on an injury like he did.
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  • travel_vic · I have the program with Woody's 5 in a row depicted on the cover and his autograph on a photo I took of him on his way to saddle Miss Oceana at Hollywood · 2 hours ago ·
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  • Jay S. · Very nice tv. Was he pretty approachable when you asked for the autograph? · 2 hours ago ·
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If you want forgotten, unknown, underrated, look no further. A record to match his pedigree
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  • buckpasser · Ironically, when I moved down to NC, I needed to rent a barn for my retired show horses while their barn was being built. I rented a nice place in Southern Pines from a woman who was E.R. Bradley's great niece. Small worlld. · 3 hours ago ·
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  • Lisa111 · And so there it is, the reason and the beginnings of a great book.... You need look no further. · 3 hours ago ·
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An exuberant individual whom carried the weight of British racing on his shoulders, Frankie Dettori is now building up to his big return to riding after a six month international ban.Read More
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  • AndyScoggin · Great piece, Dan. Dettori is a huge personality with the talent to go with it. I hope he can pull his life together and return to racing and provide the excitement that goes with his style. · 4 hours ago ·
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  • travel_vic · carried the weight of British racing on his shoulders? what crap is that · 3 hours ago ·
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 Who will win the Belmont Stakes?

  • Unlimited Budget
  • Revolutionary
  • Orb
  • Oxbow
  • Palace Malice
  • Overanalyze
  • Golden Soul
  • Freedom Child
  • Code West

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Wednesday's 8th race (4:45pm ET) from Belmont Park is an Optional Claiming event for 3-year-olds traveling a mile and a sixteenth on the inner turf.  #3 Sky Lover (6-1) owna an ascending numbers pattern and Linda Rice excels first off the claim....
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