{Friday, January 30, 2009} ROAD TO THE DERBY SHINES IN THE SUNSHINE STATE The Florida road to the Triple Crown kicks off this weekend with a pair of $150,000 stakes at Gulfstream Park -- the seven-furlong Hutcheson (race eight)
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{Thursday, January 29, 2009} Hutcheson, Forward Gal rare Friday highlights at Gulfstream A big weekend of racing at Gulfstream Park kicks off Friday with a pair of three-year-old sprints. The $150,000 Hutcheson

{Tuesday, January 27, 2009} So much for a horse race! In the wake of the Breeders' Cup results, I really thought that Curlin and Zenyetta would be duking it out to the wire for 2008 Horse of the Year. How naive of me. A combination of name recognition

{Monday, January 26, 2009} BIG WEEKEND AHEAD AT GULFSTREAM A big weekend of racing at Gulfstream Park kicks off Friday with a pair of three-year-old sprints. The $150,000 Hutcheson S. (G2) over seven furlongs will garner the most attention

{Sunday, January 25, 2009} 'Bird' takes flight in Classic; Leah's no Secret in Distaff It's a Bird capped a great day for Florida-breds (Guy Gustafson/Horsephotos.com) Edmund Gann's IT'S A BIRD (Birdonthewire) powered home an impressive,

{Friday, January 23, 2009} THE SUNSHINE MILLIONS SHINES ON SATURDAY Horrors, no football this weekend for the first time since August, but we are fortunate to have horse racing fill the void. The eight-race Sunshine Millions program,

{Wednesday, January 21, 2009} THE ROAD STARTS TO THE DERBY Old Fashioned and Friesan Fire, 3-year-old colts trained by the Fair Grounds-based Larry Jones, are prominent on most everyone's Kentucky Derby Top Five

{Monday, January 19, 2009} Game Face easily best in First Lady
from brisnet.com Squeezed back slightly at the start, Zabeel Racing International's GAME FACE (Menifee) otherwise had a dream trip in Sunday's $100,000

{Sunday, January 18, 2009} Ikigai much the best in Mr. Prospector
from brisnet.com Attending a relatively moderate pace in the first major sprint of the Gulfstream Park meet, Edmund Gann's IKIGAI (Whywhywhy) had plenty

{Friday, January 16, 2009} Zenyetta, Peppers Pride and Eight Belles, the most accomplished and acclaimed female thoroughbreds to compete in North America last year, all are in the news today -- for widely varying reasons.

{Thursday, January 15, 2009} Macho Again Eyeing Sunshine Millions
from bloodhorse.com Most of the leading contenders for the $1 million Sunshine Millions Classic to be run at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 24 are already stabled in South

{Tuesday, January 13, 2009} It was good to read and hear all the tributes to Joe Hirsch over the weekend, especially from the racing personalities he covered. I noticed the tributes included some from several prominent jockeys -- notably Jerry Bailey, Richard

{Monday, January 12, 2009} Beethoven doing well after Saturday work
from brisnet.com Trainer John Ward reported Sunday that John Oxley's BEETHOVEN (Sky Mesa) remains on target for the $150,000 Holy Bull S. (G3) on January

{Friday, January 09, 2009} "Once upon a time there was a horse named Kelso. "But only once." As the national columnist for Daily Racing Form, Joe Hirsch wrote that tribute to America's super horse back in the mid-'60s. And so it occurred to me upon learning

{Thursday, January 08, 2009} HRI Readers: Zenyatta Horse of the Year
from horseraceinsider.com Despite results indicating that reigning Horse of the Year Curlin and his human connections were dominant in several performance

{Tuesday, January 06, 2009} The one advantage of playing Aqueduct is the Pick Six. The gimmick has never been embraced in South Florida whereas a five-figure carryover is commonplace in New York, regardless of the weather, the cheap horses, and the no-name jockey

{Monday, January 05, 2009} Notonthesamepage romps in Spectacular Bid, heads for Fountain Of Youth
from brisnet.com Ken and Sarah Ramsey's homebred NOTONTHESAMEPAGE (Catienus) had disappointed in the 1 1/16-mile Breeders' Futurity

{Sunday, January 04, 2009} The Gulf Of Florida
By Nick Kling, The Record The Gulfstream Park Thoroughbred meet opens this weekend, unaccompanied by the fanfare which used to greet the beginning of the winter season at the

{Friday, January 02, 2009} OPENING DAY AT GULFSTREAM PARK Presuming he makes it back from Saudi Arabia on time, jockey John Velazquez is looking to get off to a fast start Saturday on opening day at Gulfstream Park. Johnny V, a two-time

{Thursday, January 01, 2009} Hal's Hope, Spectacular Bid highlight Gulfstream opener
from brisnet.com Seventy years since it opened, Gulfstream Park will kick off its 2009 meet on Saturday with a nine-race card that includes a