The final leg of the Triple Crown has arrived with nine horses set to enter the starting gate at 7:02pm ET on Saturday. The field includes last year’s Champion 2-Year-Old Colt Forte, this year’s Preakness Stakes (G1) winner National Treasure, and Kentucky Derby (G1)...
The second leg of the Triple Crown is upon us and that means it’s time for another ‘Keeping it In The Family’ blog. For the Preakness, I looked closer at individual stallions and how two evergreen stallions atop the sire standings year after year are playing a...
May has arrived and the Triple Crown is upon us. As of Thursday morning, there are 22 horses entered in the year’s Kentucky Derby with two on the also-eligible (AE) list for the (meaning if someone scratches out of the main body of the field, those horses have a...
Not This Time has two runners in this weekend’s Preakness Stakes. The second leg of the Triple Crown means our second of the ‘Keeping it In The Family’ blogs. This time I dug a bit deeper not only into the bloodstock side of each entrant’s history but also...
Kentucky Derby contender Zandon winning the G1 Bluegrass Stakes A combined 37 horses have entered the G1 Kentucky Derby and G1 Kentucky Oaks this weekend with two on the also-eligible (AE) list for the Derby and one on the list for the Oaks (meaning if someone...
This week we’ve hit the end of our “Kentucky Stallions” journey with a group of mostly young stallions at Spendthrift and Castleton-Lyons. In November and January, I bounced back and forth between the sales and the farms to not only refresh myself on the established...
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