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  • From DRF (The Inside Post): Always in a Tiz will run in Belmont Stakes 2013.Posted 17 hours ago
  • Mucho Macho Man breezed 5f in 1:01.40 (4/11) at Fair Hill on 5-24. Posted 18 hours ago
  • Wise Dan targets the G2 Firecracker 'Cap at Churchill on June 29.  Posted 1 day ago
  • Jockey Chantal Sutherland will return to saddle at Del Mar. Posted 1 day ago
  • Itsmyluckyday to skip Belmont Stakes 2013 in favor of Pegasus Stakes on 6-16.  Posted 1 day ago
  • Rosie Napravnik will ride Code West in Belmont Stakes 2013. Posted 1 day ago
  • From DRF (The Inside Post): Mylute will not run in Belmont Stakes 2013. Posted 2 days ago
  • Eblouissante breezed 4f :49.17 (18/44) at Belmont (dirt Training) on 5-22. Posted 2 days ago
  • Giant Finish will make his next start in Belmont Stakes 2013. Posted 2 days ago
  • Unlimited Budget is expected to face males in Belmont Stakes 2013. Posted 4 days ago

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Flat Out will attempt to continue his reign over Belmont Park when he faces eight rivals in the 121st running of the Grade 1 Met Mile.Read More
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  • travel_vic · POSITION in a horse race, no matter the level of competition, depends upon the pace.....Without knowing or considering that, all thse prognostications are invalid. · 31 minutes ago ·
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  • jinlie01 · Sticking with Discreet Dancer..will be in perfect stalking position. · 22 seconds ago ·
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Based on dosage and adjusted 12F times, my top four would be: Revolutionary, Golden Soul, Orb Unlimited Budget. I'd throw Oxbow and Palice Malice in the mix, too.
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  • LAZMANNICK · Lisa I like your posts. I for one thjink you really know what you're talking about. Keep it up. · 9 hours ago ·
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  • travel_vic · There are those who live in a world of provable facts then there are the fantasyland folks...Hard to believe in this day and age that "pretty horsey" stoires have any credibility whatsoever · 7 minutes ago ·
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Great photo of a flying ML in Eric Kalet's KD 139 Photo Blog @ the paulickreport.com.
DOMINATED in the recent jockey challenge at Pimlico. http://www.drf.com/news/pimlico-emma-jayne-wilson-leads-women-jockeys-over-men-battle-sexes
is BHP closing for good or renovations?
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  • travel_vic · on Prarie Blvd on the flight path to LAX? How "fine" an area is that going to be? · 1 hour ago ·
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  • travel_vic · One wonders: mismanagment? location? promotion? in-fighting? What brought down this one prominant place? · 32 minutes ago ·
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I've revised my Irish 2000 Guineas picks just a little from my initial selections: 1st-Gale Force Ten 2nd-Van Der Neer 3rd-Magician 4th-Fort Knox.
Someone wrote Orb ''deserves rest.'' Heck, these horses are so pampered and lightly-raced they need toughening up not more rest. Years ago when 3-year-olds raced much more frequently at 2 and 3 they remained healthy through their 4-and even 5-yeard old racing years.
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  • travel_vic · Good point as the calcium loss is very very important for the still growing skeleton of 2 and 3 year olds · 1 hour ago ·
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  • travel_vic · Also if you read veterinary pharmacology texts, you find that bute is acutally contraindicated when in concert with furosemide as the former alters the glomerular filtration....http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/livestock/horses/facts/info_pheny.htm where it states Phenylbutazone may antagonize the increased renal blood flow effects caused by furosemide. · 39 minutes ago ·
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I wish he'd go to Matz or Maker!
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  • deirdre.boyne.9 · Sullivan, I agree. I have always thought Motion would click with Margano. Of course, Mr. Tagg did, but it seems to me that the Delacours can not bring out the spark that Mr. Tagg could. Motion just might be able to though. · 10 hours ago ·
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  • travel_vic · horses ARE, HAVE BEEN, and always WILL BE individuals and their behavior will tell the connections just how much or what type of conditioning they require. Some get body sore (swimming is great for them), some have filling in the same tendon sheath so they have to be watched...the variations are as wide as the aligned differences in us. · 45 minutes ago ·
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Breaking News John Court will again team up with Will Take Charge in the Belmont!!!!!!
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  • Dressage3295 · Sorry about all the posts! · 6 hours ago ·
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  • travel_vic · people read too much in jokey changes...It is usually a straight business deal and has little to do with these soap opera explanations · 49 minutes ago ·
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In the derby I heard your name being call 4 time at the top of the stretch and as I look up it was as if you had rollerstake on and here come Ord running like he had a pair of BOOTs on......We all have our DAY..I don't think you ever lost by 3 length or more . you had some weird loses, 4month lay off, last out of the gate, then mud in the derby what kind of horse are you gonna turn out to be
  • tmallios1 · vic,since you are all so positive about the horses traits in regards to what affects them or not.i have to assume that you are versed in the equine language.please expand,are you fluent in the "full of crap" dialect or the"have no clue dialect. very curious to know. · 14 hours ago ·
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  • travel_vic · Waste of words would be more accurate in your case. · 51 minutes ago ·
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Kentucky Derby winner Orb returned to the Belmont Park main track Thursday morning for the first time since his fourth-place finish in the Preakness, galloping a mile and leaving Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey happy with what he saw. Read More
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  • On The Gallop's · QUIT TROLLING!!! ^ · 14 hours ago ·
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  • travel_vic · what this is the 5th start? Rest? Would you think the equivalent of an 18 year old baseball player would need a rest? These are young healthy animals · 53 minutes ago ·
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Trainer Larry Jones will saddle an imposing duo in Monday’s Grade 1, $400,000 Ogden Phipps Handicap, with 2012 Kentucky Oaks winner Believe You Can and 2013 Santa Margarita winner Joyful Victory shipping in from Kentucky to take on four challengers in the 1 1/16-mile race at Belmont Park.Read More
  • tmallios1 · the ogden phipps is a very deep and contentious field.it pits to together many of the top older fillies in the land.one thing about the race sticks out at me.johnny valasquez(#1 go to jock forpletcher) has jumped off of authenticity and has taken the mount on believe you can.the odd thing is the obvious.he jumps off a pletcher horse,especially one that beat believe you can the last time they met.personally,taking the trainer angle away.i agree with johnny vs' decision,authenticity was coming off 2 super works,especially in one where she dominated Verrazano.also on oaks day .the track played huge inside speed.johnny took full advantage by gunning her and holding off the competition at the wire.with more of a pace expected,i believe johnny is not only correctly handicapping this race,but also looking down the line as BYC has a brighter future than authenticity. · 11 hours ago ·
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  • travel_vic · If you think that riders are great handicappers I have a bridge in Manhattan you might want to investigate purchasing · 55 minutes ago ·
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As a new resident of the greater Richmond, VA area, I didn’t know a lot about Colonial Downs. That is until I talked to some key insiders at the track and found out how cool this summer boutique turf meet is going to be…Read More
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  • cardsbymarcy · How fantastic! Always heard this was a wonderful place but you really brought it to life!! Gonna make it a must see! · 9 hours ago ·
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  • travel_vic · Very different race course and meeting...Average parimutuel is not that great however · 1 hour ago ·
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lisa. knowing what a true vyjack fan you are and have been.trust me ,you will see him in the near future.
  • travel_vic · every year, like clockwork, over ambitious trainers ruin several Derby bound colts pushing them far to far in too little a time. Let's hope it did not happen here. · 1 hour ago ·
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Saturday's G2 Temple Stakes at Haydock should tell us alot about how Reckless Abandon will fare at Ascot in the G1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes and/or the G1 King's Stand Stakes next month during the royal meeting. Reckless Abandon puts his unbeaten record on the line at Haydock against older horses for the first time, some of them proven G1 sprinters like Tangerine Trees, Sole Power, & Maarek.
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  • travel_vic · this is a GREAT horse name · 1 hour ago ·
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  • travel_vic · don't know how many 3 y/o sprinters I can name who handed older their collective heads...Very Subtle over Groovy, ring a bell? · 1 hour ago ·
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This is probably the most unfortunatly named horse I have come across xD
Pennmarydel has a Facebook page with great photos taken in the last 2 days at FHTC.
Dominate California sire (Indian Charlie and Notional) passed away at age 26 last week from old age...
1 - Lady of Shamrock, 2 - Halo Dolly, 3 - Tiz Flirtatious, 4 - Marketing Mix.
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  • Sullivan · Thinking that this Lady of Shamrock / Tiz Fliratious thing could be a big rivalry if sold by the media · 7 hours ago ·
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  • Dressage3295 · 1st- Marketing Mix (I love my D' Oro gals!), 2nd- Lady of Shamrock, 3rd- Tiz Flirtatious, 4th- Halo Dolly · 6 hours ago ·
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1 - Midnight Lucky, 2 - Closed Hatches, 3 - Kauai Katie, 4 - Cue The Moon.
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  • Southern.Humor · Isn't it close hatches? not closed hatches - all the forms say Close hatches, but I have seen lots of peopple post closed hatches. · 6 hours ago ·
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  • Dressage3295 · 1st- Kauai Katie, 2nd- Cue the Moon, 3rd- Close Hatches, 4th- Midnight Lucky. Personally, I think that Midnight Lucky is a tad immature still and won't be able to hold up to this field · 6 hours ago ·
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