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Preakness 2012 Post Positions and Morning Line
Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another drew post 9 for Saturday's Preakness.   Read More
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Preakness Stakes 2012 | I'll Have Another | Bodemeister | Creative Cause | Union Rags
Who Am I ???
*Bred in Florida, I shared my grandsire with arguably the greatest Triple Crown winner of all-time. *I began each of my three seasons of racing among the pink flamingos.   Read More
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Preakness Stakes 2012 | I'll Have Another | Bodemeister | Creative Cause | Union Rags
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Good Things Ahead for the 2012 Preakness Winner
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2012 Preakness Preview
Will I'll Have Another move one step closer to the all too elusive Triple Crown? Bodemeister and Creative Cause hope to end his hopes in Baltimore.   Read More
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Bodemeister scares off speed from the Preakness
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What the Horse Racing Nation is talking about...

Absurd. Man O' War is not the best horse of all time, but he is one of the greats. It's not like we're arguing about the Bible, we're just putting a horse in his proper historical perspective. It's not so bad, or sinful, to say he is toward the bottom of the top 10.
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  • TampaBayDowns Fan · exactly. The conditions of a race mean everything. I don't think there has ever been a horse to live that couldn't be beaten by any horse on any terms · 4 days ago ·
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  • Jackie999 · I loved La Zanzara, I am going to go give her a good score, she deserved it! · 6 minutes ago ·
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I believe maybe union rags would benefit if he ran in a sure win. Not to copy the derbt winner. Only due to him not running in a tongue tie. It would enable his jockey to have more control and possibly get rags more on the bit early and be more forwardly placed coming out of the gate.
  • AmbitiousD · I think Matz tried a tongue tie on Rags for a gallop before the derby. Thinking back, he did not like it and it showed in the quality of his training that day. I agree it would help as you have described, but I dont think the horse really tolerates it well. Can you train the horse into tolerating a TT, or is it a binary yes/no type of thing? · 8 minutes ago ·
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Multiple graded stakes winner Zazu will make her first start as a 4-year-old in the $150,000 Marjorie L. Everett Handicap Saturday at Betfair Hollywood Park.Read More
I am just a horse racing fan, if I hit a bit is is pure luck. I have a question for true horseman. How do you think Black Gaviar would do in the Breeder's Cup Sprint against the worlds best? Thanks I will hang up and listen.
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  • ILuvTurfRacing · I'm gonna reserve my final opinion about Black Caviar until her see her step out of her comfort zone of Australia and face other sprinters abroad. Because basically, to this point in her career, she's beaten a very good sprinter in his own right in Hay List multiple times. But then she continues to beat up on the same ole same inferior horses in Australia. I remember just a few year back how so many people talked about how Overdose was unbeatable because he went unbeaten for so long. But much like Black Caviar in Australia, Overdose ran up his career record by beating up largely inferior horses in Hungary and Germany. Once he came to Great Britain for the Temple Stakes and King's Stand Stakes, he was a soundly beaten 7th at Haydock in the Temple Stakes. Ran a creditable 4th in the King's Stand, but my point being, once he got away from beating the same horses over and over in Hungary, it didn't take long at all for Overdose to get beaten. Hence, my point of waiting to see Black Caviar take on European sprinters at Ascot in the Golden Jubilee before I decide if she's really as good as advertised? Or if she's another Overdose? JMO. · 6 hours ago ·
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  • switch360 · There isnt a chance in the world she will finish 7th over her distance,she might get beat of course thats possible,but it wouldnt be by much and another horse would have to run a low 107 time ,her last run was a lazy 1min 10 under a tight hold the whole way · 28 minutes ago ·
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Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another drew post 9 for Saturday's Preakness.Read More
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  • landshark928 · Rought trip for WTDW, he coverd lots of distance to finish 4ht by 2.4 lengths.. J.V pulled the horse and checked twice.. If hes is 4th -6th after the break. He will win. · 2 hours ago ·
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  • nother · bode is human;; i have followed him in cali for a while now ;; i singled him and he won by many lenghs when then pro's didn't pick him;; i say he has enuf bounce to let IHA win;; · 44 minutes ago ·
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sometimes a sprained ankle can tke a litte longer. thats what i'm hoping. we will put his shoe back on and start back.pray it all goes well!
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  • Mary Z. · Thanks for the news, manutim. I need some speed ! · 1 hour ago ·
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  • manutim · a little faster on saturday and if all is well a solid 1 mile on turf at holly the following friday. · 46 minutes ago ·
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Premier Pegasus was euthanized per drf.com...here's the article..http://www.drf.com/news/hollywood-park-rousing-sermon-may-be-back-belmont-stakes
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  • AmbitiousD · This is a major bummer. He was one of the first I really liked when I got into the game 18 months ago. R.I.P. · 7 hours ago ·
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  • Armada · This is such sad news! I loved this horse so much. He possessed so much talent. R.I.P my darling Pre Peg. ]8 · 1 hour ago ·
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I’ll Have Another was entered Wednesday to continue his Triple Crown quest in the $1 million Preakness Stakes (G1), but Reddam Racing’s Kentucky Derby winner may not be favored to win Pimlico Race Course’s signature race for 3-year-olds on Saturday.Read More
May you Rest in Peace Premier Pegasus.
Sunday Betfair Hollywood Park Recap – May 13 Edge to early-pressing types on Cushion Track (1 route wire job). Stalkers and closers best on the turf course. No riding/training doubles but it was nice to see PVal (1st wins since coming back) and Kayla Stra (1st win of meet) find the winners’ circle o...Read More
Will I'll Have Another move one step closer to the all too elusive Triple Crown? Bodemeister and Creative Cause hope to end his hopes in Baltimore.Read More
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  • ruffed grouse · I am leery of Bodemeister as he is making his 3rd start in 5 weeks and he was a tired horse the last part of the derby. Thoro- Graph has him finishing up the last half in 52 and change. I know he looks good and all that but they can fool you and you realize you made a mistake at about the 1/8th pole. He may be the exception to the rule and if he is he will not look back but I am betting against it. · 4 hours ago ·
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  • Capper · I'm leaning toward Creative Cause, with all that trouble & the wide trip, he was right there at the wire. Plus, he'll easily be triple the odds of Bodemeister/I'll Have Another. With all the love Went the Day Well is getting, he may drift up to 10-1. · 3 hours ago ·
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First filly to win the KY Derby did it off an 8 and a half month layoff and without ever having raced beyond 6 furlongs.
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  • Mary Z. · Tells me that the trainer conditioned her to make the run of her life, and she must have had distance breeding. · 4 hours ago ·
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  • buckpasser · She is one of only a handful of horses who won the Sanford, the Saratoga Special and the Hopeful. In the Brooklyn Handicap she lost by a nose to her stablemate Borrow but beat Roamer, Old Rosebud, Omar khyyam. She great distance breeding as her sire was Broomstick who was a son the mighty Ben Brush. Her brood are sire was Hamburg who traced to Longfellow. Sadly she was not much of a broodmare · 3 hours ago ·
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Bodmeister will be favourite and the speed. Look for a Preakness record if the track is fast.
Kelso was undoubtedly one of the best. However, an argument can be made for many horses and supported with data, facts, results, etc. So, in my 50 plus years of following the ponies 3 moments flash in my mind when you asked who is the best. One - Secretariat's 31 length victory in the Belmont, Damascus' 10 length victory over Buckpasser and Dr. Fager in the Woodward and Forego's improbable win the the 1976 Marlboro Cup. So thats how I'd rate them. I might juggle the order but those moments would be the top three. I like to hear your special moments that bonded you to a particuliar horse.
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  • icyhotboo · I'm know virtually nothing of turf racing but spent one morning just watching her races again and again to the point of exhaustion. I may not know turf racing but I know a champion when I see one. That arc run was unbelievable. · 5 hours ago ·
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  • jason.luttgens · 1989 Sunday Silence's imoortal duels with Easy Goer, then Pistols and Roses bluegrass and Donn handicap triumphs two years running and of course, Zenyatta! · 3 hours ago ·
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Visit Churchill Downs for the first time, through my rambling thoughts and lens. This "first time" is not one that I will soon forget.Read More
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  • tony bada bing · Thanks for the nice words all... · 3 days ago ·
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  • ScottBowerman · I will never forget my only visit to C.D. last years Breeders Cup weekend. I am waiting for some video of the mob scene pirate parking show outside in the neighborhood. Ol Kentucky Home · 4 hours ago ·
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Looking at May 28th for Mavata's next race. 5f on the turf in a 15clm nw 2 life race at Mountaineer
Is the Preakness becoming the new Kentucky Derby? As blasphemous and confusing at that question may sound...Read More
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  • notobsessed · baffert would have had a press release if bode was injured · 4 hours ago ·
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  • notobsessed · oh Mr. TerryDickens, why do you say bode has a bruised foot? · 4 hours ago ·
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*Bred in Florida, I shared my grandsire with arguably the greatest Triple Crown winner of all-time. *I began each of my three seasons of racing among the pink flamingos.Read More
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  • AndyScoggin · Buddy Lepman was one of the great Mth trainers when I was a kid hanging around at our favorite Jersey track. · 4 hours ago ·
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  • zatt · There you go ... Winner, winner, crab cake dinner! Enjoy the accolades, Mr. Champion! · 4 hours ago ·
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What does it take to win America's most prestigious race? Ride along with Mario Gutierrez to find out...Read More
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  • saratoga john · Having watched the race several times since Derby Day, Guiterrez made two key moves with I'll Have Another. Both occurred at the top of the stretch. One, was at the start, and the other move at the turn for home. The first was getting him out of that 2nd gate to a wide-open space through the stretch so he could relax the horse through the clubhouse turn. The second, was pretty remarkable since this was Guiterrez' first time in a race of this magnitude. It was the key move as they spun off the turn at the 1/4 pole. Drifting out in the middle of the track with Went the Day Well & Dullahan to his outside, the key move was sliding him back inside to make his run at Bodemeister. The closers were still commited the the 7 & 8 paths and stayed out there to launch, but it was too late. Guiterrez was already gone and taking a bead on the game Bodemeister. Bodemeisters' ability to burn those fractions and still be running at the end was quite impressive. That's why I'm taking Bodemeister in the shorter Preakness. · 8 hours ago ·
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  • themillbraecount · Cozzetti should rally from off the pace to win the Preakness, followed by Creative Cause, Daddy Nose Best, and Bodemeister! · 4 hours ago ·
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Has potential to be a great miler.

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Guyana Star Dweej will not run in the Preakness due to a quarter crack. 
My Miss Aurelia finally got back to work. She breezed 3f in :39 (1/1) at Vinery Stable Training Center on May 15.    
Animal Kingdom has been cleared to resume training at Fair Hill. He will begin jogging under tack next week and could return in the fall if everything goes according to plan.  
Royal Delta posted her first work since finishing 9th in the Dubai World Cup. She breezed 4f in :48.55 (8/79) at Belmont Park on May 13.   
Cozzetti, working for Saturday's Preakness, fired a 5f bullet in :58.80 (1/10) at Churchill Downs on May 14.   
Zayat Stables confirms that Bodemeister is a go in the Preakness! 
Caleb's Posse worked six furlongs in 1:11.40 this morning at Arlington Park in preparation for the Met Mile on May 28. 
Stay Thirsty is entered in the $90,000 Vanlandingham Stakes (race 3) at Belmont Park on Thursday, May 17. Post time 1:54pm Eastern.    
Mark Valeski makes the decision not to run in the Kentucky Derby pay off with a win in the Peter Pan. 
Drill scores a win in Hollywood Park's Laz Barrera. 
Black Caviar canters home in Goodwood to run winning streak to 21.   
Stay Thirsty fired a 5f bullet in 1:00.28 (1/9) at Belmont Park (dirt training) on May 11.   
Gemologist is out of the Belmont due to a foot bruise, as reported by DRF. 
Dullahan will skip the Preakness and will be pointed to the Belmont Stakes. 
Shackleford will make his next start in the G1 Met Mile at Belmont Park on May 28.   
Richard's Kid is back in Bob Baffert's Santa Anita Park barn and he fired a 4f bullet in :46.80 (1/23) on May 9.   
Creative Cause and Teeth of the Dog have been confirmed for the May 19 Preakness.   
Midnight Transfer, 7th when last seen in the SA Derby, was recently diagnosed with a non-displaced condylar fracture of a cannon bone. He underwent successful surgery and has been turned out for three months.   
Team Zenyatta reports that the big mare is in foal to Tapit. 
G1 Preakness hopeful Cozzetti breezed 5f in 1:01 (5/19) at Churchill Downs on May 7. He was last seen finishing 4th in the Arkansas Derby.   

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