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Louisville is one of the largest cities of United States in state of Kentucky. The living standard of people in Louisville is very high with easy of every facility. It has a good connectivity to many locations and parts of United States. If you do not own...
Preakness Stakes – Frequently Asked Questions About the Second Leg of the Triple Crown
When is the Preakness Stakes?
The 136th Preakness Stakes will be run May 21, 2011, at Pimlico Race Course. The post time is scheduled for about 6:19 pm Eastern. This second jewel of the Triple Crown is always run exactly two weeks after the Kentucky D...
Can Dialed In Make a Comeback in the 2011 Preakness? If He Does He Will Win More Than Six Million D
After Kentucky Derby favorite finished a disappointing 8th, trainer Nick Zito was looking for answers, and he found it in the pedestrian pace. He noted that the early pace was unusually slow. A review of the last 10 years Derby charts shows that indeed t...
The Greatest Preakness Stakes Performances Ever – How Many Do You Remember?
When I think of the greatest performance in the Preakness Stakes, Secretariat immediately springs to mind. He managed to accomplish two remarkable things. First, he made a move around the first turn which catapulted him from last to first in about 12 sec...
What Makes a Great Kentucky Derby? Is It More Than the Contenders?
There have been a few grumblings among those within the sport that this year’s Kentucky Derby is lacking the usual excitement that typically precedes the most heavily promoted horse race of the year. Some say it is because we are lacking that superstar, ...
Kentucky Derby – The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports
Every year in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, the Kentucky Derby is held at Churchill Downs. It marks the first leg of the U.S. Triple Crown of thoroughbred racing, and is one of the most watched and attended stakes races in North Amer...
Triple Crown Diary: Bill Shoemaker One of the Best Jockeys Ever – He won 11 Triple Crown Races but n
Bill Shoemaker, sometimes called “The Shoe”, is considered one of the greatest jockeys in thoroughbred racing history. Ten times he was the top money earner, and in five years he compiled the most number of wins. He won the Kentucky Derby four times, th...
Gallant Fox - The Second Triple Crown Winner: What a Horse He Was!
Gallant Fox was the second horse to win the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes, the first to do so being Sir Barton in 1919, but it wasn’t called the Triple Crown then and the importance of the accomplishment wasn’t emphasized.
It was the 19...
Match Race of a Lifetime: Man o’ War vs. Secretariat – Who Would Win?
An often heated topic of contention among horse racing enthusiasts has been, who would win in a race between Man o’ War vs. Secretariat, the acknowledged top two North American thoroughbreds of all time. A few will occasionally throw in another horse as ...
For Gardening Beginners, Hostas May Prove Exemplary
'Liberty', 'Blue Angel', 'Sum and Substance', 'Sagae', 'June', 'Regal Splendor'; no, these are not the names of race horses in the next Kentucky derby, but rather, these are the names of other beautiful creatures- the perennial plant known as hostas. The...
Triple Crown Flashback: Smarty Jones
In the spring of 2004, around the time when horses begin to sort themselves out as real contenders for the Kentucky Derby, we witnessed the emergence of an undefeated colt named Smarty Jones. He began his career in the relatively obscure venue of Philade...
Is the Blue Grass Still a Relevant Prep Race?
It has been 20 years since Strike the Gold won the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland and then went on to give Nick Zito his first Kentucky Derby win. Since then, no Bluegrass winner has gone on to win the Kentucky Derby.
Several horses have come out of the...
To Honor and Serve
This beautiful horse is trained by Bill Mott. Bill has won training awards from across the country and is the youngest trainer ever inducted into the Hall of Fame at the age of 45. He has trained many champions and Horse of the Year. Bill has entered seve...
The Hallowed Grounds of Churchill Downs
There’s nothing like it, its sprawling Kentucky blue grass freshly cut and trimmed. The expansive white rails splitting that Kentucky bluegrass and the red Kentucky dirt, it’s a breathtaking site to be seen. Its one of the most hallowed grounds in sports,...
Mucho Macho Man, A Derby Shoe In!
This is one top contender for the 2011 Kentucky Derby. In fact, many are saying that, despite his graded ranking of 4th this year, Mucho Macho Man is most definitely in their top three for the Derby win. Holding his own in 2010, against some of this yea...