{Thursday, April 30, 2009} WHAT A HORSE RACE You would think that, judging by the morning line, there are only four legitimate players in the Kentucky Derby. After all, there are I Want Revenge, Dunkirk, Pioneerof the Nile

{Tuesday, April 28, 2009} DROPPING LIKE HORSES Spending Derby Week in central Jersey fighting a bug, but my spirits were raised Saturday afternoon when Hull, my John Piesen Hot Line (888) 612 2283) special, won the Derby Trial on opening

{Monday, April 27, 2009} Quality Road Out of Derby Contention
By Evan Hammonds Quality Road, who figured to be among the top choices for Saturday’s Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) will not start in the Run for

{Wednesday, April 22, 2009} KENTUCKY DERBY WATCH - NEWS & NOTES With rare exceptions, there is no lazier group than than turf writers. I've covered enough Kentucky Derbys to know the drill. You party all evening, and sometimes all night.

{Monday, April 20, 2009} OF TURNS AND POLES One of my favorite racetrack tales: Willie Martinez, a winner of 3,000-plus races, and still grinding out winners at Tampa Bay Downs in his late '40s, at one time was a perennial top five rider

{Sunday, April 19, 2009}   A SYNTHETIC TRACKS MAKE DERBY HANDICAPPING TOUGH
by Ray Kerrison, New York Post ALL THE major Kentucky Derby prep races have been run, the pretenders have been shaken out, the contenders have

{Friday, April 17, 2009} THE LEXINGTON STAKES & CHARLES TOWN CLASSIC We'll find out Saturday if Edgar Prado will be a player in the Kentucky Derby. Prado picks up the mount on Square Eddie, who will be a short price in the

{Wednesday, April 15, 2009} OLD FASHIONED IS RETIRED As expected, Old Fashioned, the winter book favorite for the Kentucky Derby, has been retired to stud by owner Rick Porter. "The surgery (for a non-displaced slab fracture of his right

{Tuesday, April 14, 2009} BREAKING NEWS...
GOMEZ TO RIDE DUNKIRK!
(Posted 10:45 AM EDT, Tuesday 4-14-09) by John Piesen Garrett Gomez will ride Dunkirk, rather than Pioneerof the Nile, in the Kentucky Derby, informed

{Monday, April 13, 2009} RACING'S ROUGH TEN DAYS This has been a rough 10 days for horse racing. First, the horrific Paragallo scandal. Then trainer Mullins was caught with a syringe in the

{Sunday, April 12, 2009}   Oaklawn Park A Sure Winner In Uncertain Times
by Joe Drape HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — The Rebel Stakes was still eight hours away, but it was very much on the mind of Charles

{Friday, April 10, 2009} SUPER SATURDAY: The Arkansas Derby & Blue Grass Stakes Nobody has ever questioned Kent Desormeaux's riding ability. Well, maybe there were some shots taken after his performance on Big Brown last year in the

{Wednesday, April 08, 2009} THE SHOW MUST GO ON Confirming the report on this venue a month back, the connections of Rushaway Stakes runnerup Ziegfeld announced Tuesday that the Elusive Quality colt is a go for Saturday's $1 million Arkansas

{Tuesday, April 07, 2009}   WOOD YOU BELIEVE? Recent events would make one think the producers of "Jockeys" will have no problem recruiting riders for the second season of their hit cable reality series. After all, the

{Friday, April 03, 2009} LOOKING AT THE DERBY PREPS Where is ESPN when you need it? If memory serves, ESPN was always right there for us on the Saturday afternoon they ran the Wood Memorial, Illinois Derby, and Santa Anita Derby. But

{Wednesday, April 01, 2009} SAY IT AIN'T SO JOE It is all so confusing. The morning-line for the third and final pool in the Churchill Downs' Kentucky Derby Future Book, released on Tuesday, lists Mafaaz as the 50-1 rank outsider -- one