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With next Saturday's GI Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park (100 points to the winner) and Keeneland's GIII Coolmore Lexington S....

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There are, of course, many different routes to the GI Kentucky Derby, but which of the numerous trials have proved...

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There was nothing unusual about the Southern Hemisphere half of Dubawi's extraordinary sequence of group successes last Saturday. The Emancipation...

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As we have mentioned before, once a horse shows up as an A Runner on one of our annual lists...

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Mid-year APEX figures run by TJCIS (The Jockey Club Information Systems), through last weekend's racing, tend to confirm some interesting...

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Only a couple of weeks ago, Bill Oppenheim reminded us of 2005's remarkable crop of new stallions, featuring Tapit, Medaglia...

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It was not very many years ago that winter meant a complete shutdown of flat racing in Britain and Ireland,...

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When Pioneer of the Nile retired to stud, his fee was no higher than $20,000 (and was soon to fall...

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Shared Belief's romp (Beyer 111) in Saturday's GI Santa Anita H. propelled his sire, Lane's End's Candy Ride, to the...

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"And the winner is..." is a phrase we hear a lot at this time of year, including in some pretty...

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It's still winter. All the good racing is in warmer climes, and even there we're nearly a month away from...

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Bearing in mind that last week's weather truncated the action in the U.S., I hope you will forgive me for...

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