Being Now Public's track-side pundit has it's advantages. The biggest one being, that I can post my selections, cold hearted and braggadocios without the risk of losing even a dollar. This is great because my...
Posted @ 1 Minute To PostPre-race: With just a half-hour to go before six of Canada's finest three-year old equines will lineup to contest the 74th running of the Prince of Wales Stakes I've finally...
created by mr.zoltanblack | 19 wks ago | updated 19 wks ago 104 views | 2 recommendations | 2 comments
I got the horse right here... ... I must admit right off the top that my personal immersion into all things Kentucky Derby has left me a little bit behind the proverbial eight-ball when it comes to...
created by mr.zoltanblack | 22 wks ago | updated 22 wks ago 638 views | 10 recommendations | 0 comments
Summer Bird wins the Belmont Stakes 2009 and pushed in front to win with just a few hundred metres left to go in the race. The official time was 2 minutes and 27.54 seconds. The biggest challenges were Dunkirk...
created by Amy Judd | 24 wks ago | updated 24 wks ago 2326 views | 12 recommendations | 3 comments
A brief glance at the results of past Belmont Stakes reveals a telling secret. For at least the past twenty years the Belmont (the final jewel of the North American horses racing triple-crown) has been...
created by mr.zoltanblack | 24 wks ago | updated 24 wks ago 120 views | 34 recommendations | 4 comments
Rachel Alexander, Preakness 2009 winner, will not run in the Belmont Stakes on June 6, 2009. Rachel Alexander was the first filly to win Preakness, the second leg of the Triple Crown, in 85 years. Preakness winning jockey, Calvin Borel, is likely to be in high...
It's really hard to write about the Preakness Pre-Race: A lesson learned I turn outs the Preakness Stake, the second jewel of North America's Horse Racing Triple Crown is a really tough thing to write...
created by mr.zoltanblack | 26 wks ago | updated 26 wks ago 93 views | 1 recommendation | 2 comments
Calvin Borel, the now famous jockey to have ridden Mine That Bird to the second biggest upset in Kentucky Derby has just won the Preakness with Rachel Alexandra. Rachel Alexandra became the first filly to win the...
The Preakness Stakes is set for today, May 16. Post time is 6:05pm EST. The second race in horse racing's famed Triple Crown will take place at the Pimlico racetrack in Baltimore, MD. The first Triple Crown race took...
created by Jon Azpiri | 27 wks ago | updated 27 wks ago 1392 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
Known commonly by the working folks along the Churchill Downs back-stretch as Calvin Bo-Rail and routinely referred to as simply "Moses" amongst my own inner circle Calvin Borel became a two time Kentucky Derby...
created by mr.zoltanblack | 28 wks ago | updated 28 wks ago 165 views | 50 recommendations | 1 comment
Desert Party has been flying under the radar en-route to North Americas premier horse racing event, the Kentucky Derby. Sure John Asher vice president of communications at Churchill Downs has ranked Desert Party...
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Trainer James Jerkens has an opportunity to accomplish something his hall of famer father never could... ...Win the Kentucky Derby.
For all the accomplishments of H. Allen Jerkens, 4...
Dunkirk Blue Blood racer Dunkirk has his work cut out for him if he expects to showcase his immaculate lineage on May 2nd in the Kentucky. Saturdays running of the Florida Derby may be Dunkirk’s only chance to...
created by mr.zoltanblack | 34 wks ago | updated 34 wks ago 252 views | 30 recommendations | 0 comments
Early Kentucky Derby Favourite Old Fashioned crushed a field of lesser likes at Oaklawn Park on Monday evening.
The 1 mile dirt race was completed in an extremely relevant 1:37.41.
Old Fasioned broke...
The icicles have barley melted from my front porch but somehow I find myself thinking about mid May and Kentucky’s annual Run for the Roses.
Colt’s This ones for Phil (117) , You Luckie Mann (1**) and...
created by mr.zoltanblack | 42 wks ago | updated 42 wks ago 69 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments