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  • Unlimited Budget is expected to face males in Belmont Stakes 2013. Posted 16 hours ago
  • Verrazano will make his next start in the Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth on 6-16. Posted 16 hours ago
  • Dreaming of Julia will make her next start in the Mother Goose at Belmont on 6-22. Posted 16 hours ago
  • Game On Dude worked 4f in :50.60 (28/36) at Santa Anita on 5-20. Posted 21 hours ago
  • Overanalyze, breezing for Belmont Stakes 2013, went 4f in :47.50 (3/34) at Belmont (dirt training) on 5-19.Posted 1 day ago
  • 2013 Belmont Stakes hopeful Palace Malice breezed 4f in :47.49 (2/34) at Belmont Park (dirt training) on 5-19. Posted 1 day ago
  • Coffee Clique romps in the Selene Stakes!Posted 1 day 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 2 days ago
  • Skyring goes all the way in the Dixie! Posted 2 days ago

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Florida Filly and the entire Horse Racing Nation family offers our condolences to those in Oklahoma and lets you know how you can help.Read More
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  • travel_vic · Kansas and Oklahoma rank first and second respectively in the number of tornadoes per square mile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Alley isn't this sort of common knowledge? · 6 minutes ago ·
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  • zxswordxz · What a freaking insensitive jerk! · 4 seconds ago ·
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on May 21, Kauai Katie worked 5F at Belmont Park on Fast Dirt training in 1:01.25 b finishing 12/23.
on May 21, Flat Out worked 4F at Saratoga on Fast Dirt training in :48.27 b finishing 1/17.
i just read on another site that pletcher may be pointing unlimited budget towards the belmont stakes.first let me say,todd will forget more about horse racing than i or all fans will ever learn.i get it,you have to be in it to win it.i could see when rachel ran in the preakness.she destroyed her competition.i could see when todd ran rags to riches.she defeated her competition.unlimited finished a weak 3rd in the oaks going a shorter distance.she did not dominate her competition.yes ,previously she did run very good.but the caliber was not as strong.it almost seems as though todd has so many 3 yo fillies coming up to a race,that he is trying to keep them apart at all costs.when you run a horse in a G1 stake.any horse,you are doing it with the confidence that you can win or at worst finish at least 3rd.that being the case,what is todd telling you about revolutionary ,overanalyze or any other colt he might point to the belmont.he is telling you that a filly who could not beat her own gender ,has just as good a shot at hitting the board as his top colts.personally,not to comforting.
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  • goblin · Dreaming of Julia is apparently going to the Mother Goose (per Brian Zipse yesterday). Unlimited Budget, the subject of this thread, is the filly being considered for the Belmont. · 28 minutes ago ·
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  • travel_vic · if funds alone made any long term difference in winning a Triple Crown race, old Mauktoom would have won one long ago · 15 minutes ago ·
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What about Dreaming of Julia? She should be considered as a viable Pletcher candidate along with Closing Hatches. Although Princess of Sylmar clearly ran the best under the circumstances at the start in the Oaks, it's hard to ignore that Julia was snuffed the worst out of all at the start but still produced a decent run.
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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  • tmallios1 · in my opinion there is no best 3yo.there is a group of about 5 to 7 at this point that separate themselves from the rest.when you say best going into the derby.you should be the dominant horse,almost noquestions about your superiority.exanple last year .ill have another.he dominated the first 2 races.although he won by small margins,the key word is he won.he could o been considered the best.this group.talented yes.but 1 better than the other.i am not convinced.zipse is right.makes for good chatter,but that is about it.where it counts,on the track.up in the air. · 20 minutes ago ·
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  • tmallios1 · sorry,meant going into the belmont · 19 minutes ago ·
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on May 21, Liaison worked 6F at Santa Anita on Fast Dirt in 1:13.80 h finishing 1/3.
on May 21, Calidoscopio worked 7F at Santa Anita on Fast Dirt in 1:30.80 h finishing 1/1.
In your opinion, who is the best racehorse to compete in the 1980's and why?
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  • SSilence86 · Speaking my language Rafi :) My first pure love in horse racing. Never worse than second. That black colt dazzled me every time he ran. · 13 hours ago ·
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  • travel_vic · Miesque not only BEAT the best in the world first in almost track record time on a hard turf course by open lengths, but then again next year on a softer, tight turned grass course easily. · 24 minutes ago ·
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on May 21, Power Broker worked 4F at Churchill Downs on Good Turf in :51.80 b finishing 3/4.
http://www.woodbineentertainment.com/Woodbine/RaceTrackNewsPage.aspx?NewsId=c4975c89-956a-4a68-85f2-4761ec0fd859
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  • AnnaK · A real drag, but relieved they're both okay. · 3 hours ago ·
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  • travel_vic · well they walked off under their own power, many had lingering problems · 26 minutes ago ·
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With only a few more preps to run, Revolutionary has moved to the top of the list as Zipse's most likely winner of the 2013 Kentucky Derby.Read More
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  • CauseForConcern · Wow!!! That's impressive!!! Why is it, I feel that you didn't play your rankings in the first two legs? · 2 hours ago ·
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  • travel_vic · Revolution and Normandy Invasion are more adept energy wise to 12 furlongs...MAJOR problem however is that NO one can predidc who will last at that oddball distance and just about all this group will never see again. · 27 minutes ago ·
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Omaha is certainly a coveted horse. We regard him as a legend, a triple crown winner on par with the greats of the 1930s. Would it surprise you to learn that on July 10, 1935 DRF published an article titled "Omaha Best Of Bad Lot"? Maybe things haven't changed so much after all.
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  • Buckpasser · Cocoa. It is. Too bad he couldn't have a better monument or moved to Old Friends. · 17 hours ago ·
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  • travel_vic · no he is recognized by the authority that SHOULD be accountable for his memory http://horseracinghalloffame.com/1976/12/02/sir-barton/ His owner is there to · 33 minutes ago ·
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on May 21, Daddy Nose Best worked 5F at Churchill Downs on Fast Dirt in 1:02.00 b finishing 14/21.
on May 21, My Adonis worked 5F at Monmouth Park on Good Dirt in 1:01.80 b finishing 2/7.
on May 21, Sabercat worked 4F at Churchill Downs on Fast Dirt in :49.80 b finishing 1/3.
Can he handle the distance I'm unsure.
He looked good today in his race and he rode the rail.
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  • travel_vic · we will be luck if over 1/3 of today's tracks are extant in 10 years · 11 hours ago ·
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  • jmac500 · true · 1 hour ago ·
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For what it's worth: Going into the Preakness no horse had a lower top Beyer than Oxbow. Coming out, no horse has a Beyer as high Oxbow.
  • Lisa111 · Brian, off subject but is that a picture of Eddie Vedder? Small to make out. If it is, very cool. He's one of my favorites! · 2 hours ago ·
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who do you think were the top horses in the 1990's?
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  • travel_vic · wait she was 87 and 88 · 11 hours ago ·
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  • yukichan · TV...you can add her to the thread about best of the '80s--I did, along with John Henry ; ) · 2 hours ago ·
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 Who will win the Belmont Stakes?

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

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Tuesday's 5th race (7:05pm ET) from Presque Isle Downs is a $7,500 claiming event for 3-year-olds and up which have never won two races. They will be dashing five and one-half furlongs on Tapeta footing.  #3 Black Ace (4-1) makes his first start...
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