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  • Unlimited Budget is expected to face males in Belmont Stakes 2013. Posted 1 hour ago
  • Verrazano will make his next start in the Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth on 6-16. Posted 1 hour ago
  • Dreaming of Julia will make her next start in the Mother Goose at Belmont on 6-22. Posted 1 hour ago
  • Game On Dude worked 4f in :50.60 (28/36) at Santa Anita on 5-20. Posted 6 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 1 day 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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In your opinion, who is the best racehorse to compete in the 1980's and why?
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  • kaitlinefree1 · i follow Partymanner on youtube. so they should be relatively easy to find. · 1 minutes ago ·
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  • rafirox · Tcglory. I HIGHLY reccomend getting informed on this brilliant racehorse. It appears to me your quite oblivious to what he has accomplished, and you're too quick to disregard him for consideration if you don't know enough about him. I reccomend checking out the book "Spectacular Bid: Racing's Horse of Steel"... If you're too perezoso to read that, perhaps go the minimum effor to be enlightened and simply search his name into Wikipedia's non-trustworthy database. Since I know you enjoy watching the races; perhaps try to view some of his races on Youtube. · 20 seconds ago ·
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In your opinion, who is/was the most underrated (yet proven) racehorse of all time?
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  • rafirox · *know. · 11 minutes ago ·
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  • Dressage3295 · Regret is a huge one. Immensely underrated despite all her feats against the boys · 54 seconds ago ·
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Secretariat will always be the Champ :) I wonder if I will ever see another Triple Crown....
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  • zxswordxz · http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5eCoHTnPhg · 2 minutes ago ·
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  • Dressage3295 · It just takes a truly special horse to win the TC. When a TC winner does come along, I can only hope that they earn the honor · 1 minutes 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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  • Jay S. · Well said, Lisa. · 2 minutes ago ·
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  • Lisa111 · Yes, Jay, I saw that as well. But I think that the connections were inclined to sit it out of some of the races that they would have otherwise gone for. And then of course there is the whole other issue of the sprinters. At the very least, we had a few of them who competed and then went on to excel. Now none. I really believe the points system killed it. · 2 minutes ago ·
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IYO, who is the best father-son duo of all time? I'd have to go with Lexington-Duke of Magenta.
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  • rafirox · @CFC. Very interesting. If this were 3 generations, they'd be a top candidate. · 10 minutes ago ·
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  • rafirox · Nonetheless, that's a great trio. · 10 minutes ago ·
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What makes up a large portion of the sport of Thoroughbred racing? Its fans, of course!Read More
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  • Buckpasser · As usual nice article · 15 minutes ago ·
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  • Floridaf · Great piece, Maddie! · 10 minutes ago ·
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who do you think were the top horses in the 1990's?
i didn't know anything about her until Brian's blog. sounds like a GREAT & promising filly.
Orb may not be the immortal everyone thought him to be, but one loss at the hands of a bad post takes nothing away from him. He can still be great.Read More
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  • Jay S. · Although, I was not a fan of the move on AK...at all. The Great Orb was in PERFECT position entering the far turn. Perhaps...a little too perfect. THAT probably did him in. · 1 hour ago ·
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  • tmallios1 · jay not saying you are.many in the public are.all of a sudden to many he is public enemy #1.the horse ran on empty.nothing wrong with that.he was coming off 3 monster efforts.just shows he is not a machine. · 37 minutes ago ·
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Does anyoneknow who currently owns this mare?
  • Mary Z. · Not sure exactly, but her 2011 foal, a Distorted Humor filly was bred by W.S. Farish and Kilroy Thoroughbred partnership. She was foaled at Lane's End. · 275 days ago ·
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  • Sullivan · She's up in Lexington at some farm that starts with Kate-something. Looking very good · 39 minutes ago ·
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just wondering? where did all the loyal D.Wayne Lukas fans who trashed him prior to the triple crown series go to and hide.they made it seem as though he actually forgot how to train.as a friend of mine and a very classy trainer. J J Toner always tells me. "you would be amazed how top of the shelf horses make you such a better trainer "
  • Sullivan · My personal opinions of Lukas are not strong enough to get in my the way of my admiration for Calumet Farm · 45 minutes ago ·
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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 · tom, Charismatic was Eclipse champion 3y/o colt and Eclipse Horse of the Year in 1999. He was no fluke, and I never heard/saw him labelled as such. · 1 hour ago ·
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  • tmallios1 · then goblin you must of read the local papers.he and bird never got the respect.regardless of any of this.my point is,just cause you win a graded race ,does not make you classy automatically. · 56 minutes ago ·
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRPkyZLVjxQ Video of her with her new unbridle song colt just amazing love it future racing champ hopefully
Track record performance in a walkover
praying for everyone in Oklahoma.
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  • RichChatter · It was huge and the damage is extensive. Saw an overhead video of the aftermath and it looked like the end of the world. This is terrible. · 2 hours ago ·
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  • kaitlinefree1 · i just read where they think that this may be the largest / most devastating tornado in US history. sad. · 1 hour ago ·
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Second in no fewer than four Group 1 contests in 2012, Farhh would burst back onto the British racing scene in 2013 with renewed vigour, determination and in a league of his own as he powered away for a facile four length success in the Group 1 Lockinge Stakes at Newbury.Read More
  • ARBY · With Godolphin owning a part of Animal Kingdom the Queen Anne Stakes / Prince of Wale's Stakes could be the AK Farhh double for the stable. · 2 hours ago ·
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78 years and he is still the only horse to win the Santa Anita Handicap as a three year old. Beating Seabiscuit, Pompoon, Top Row, Ligaroti, Gosum, and Sceneshifter was something, and then doing it in track record time... The 30lb weight impost probably helped a little bit.
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  • Sullivan · Thank you. I play to finish his HRN page today, a summary of his career by Friday and will have contacted Mr. Veitch by the day after Memorial Day. Let us cross our fingers and hope, I find it outrageous that Ashado is considered for the HOF and not Stagehand · 3 hours ago ·
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  • Buckpasser · Keep us posted. Perhaps we can help if needed. · 2 hours 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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  • Sullivan · I remember mapping out his runners a few months ago. It is a little sad that Sir Barton's memory is commemorated by a brown plastic sculpture in the middle of nowhere. · 3 hours ago ·
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  • Buckpasser · Cocoa. It is. Too bad he couldn't have a better monument or moved to Old Friends. · 2 hours ago ·
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will she not be in the Belmont Stakes? is it out of consideration?
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  • kaitlinefree1 · why not run her in the Acorn & go for the Triple Tiara? · 2 hours ago ·
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  • tmallios1 · kaitlin, that is fine.just run her against the fillies and let her show her greatness if she has it in her.why the rush to push her to the limit so early in her career.down the line.if she separates herself from her competition and the owners want to take a shot at the boys.then be my guest.she will of earned the shot.right now,please do not take it the wrong way.she has not earned the shot.she ran 1 race that depending on if you believe in a certain speed sheet.ran the fastest race ever by a racehorse.the previous fastest race was by mineshaft.so you know the ability is there .let todd get it on a consistent basis against the top competition against fillies. · 2 hours ago ·
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Seven more positive test results for Al Zarooni, including St. Leger winner over Camelot, Encke. Others: Steeler, Energizer, Genius Beast, Improvisation and Stamford. Saeed bin Suroor is clear.
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  • Buckpasser · I see federal legislation is being proposed to deal with drugs in racing. They are tying the drug enforcement to interstate wagering and simulcasting and are charging the USADa which oversees drug rules etc. for the Olympics for enforcement. This will be interesting as this power would come through interstate commerce and could finally unify drug laws and enforcement throughout the US. It is coming out of committe so there will be more to come but it looks like the hearings earlier in the year are bearing some fruit. · 3 hours ago ·
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  • yukichan · Encke tsted positive for steroids. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/horseracing/10069036/St-Leger-winner-Encke-tests-positive-for-anabolic-steroids-following-tests-at-Godolphin-yard.html · 2 hours ago ·
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 Who will win the Belmont Stakes?

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