The big story at the 2009 $200,000 Grade 2 Dwyer Stakes at Belmont Park is Calvin Borel choosing to ride Warrior's Reward, who has not yet won his first stakes race. Borel would nt provide a commitment that he would ride Mine That Bird in the West Virginia Derby on August 1, so he was pulled by Mine That Bird's connections.

The $300,000 Grade 1, 6-furlong Prioress Stakes has attracted nine contenders, one of them being the Bob Baffert-trained Gabby's Golden Girl, who intends to make this her second straight Grade 1 victory following her win in the Acorn Stakes on June 6.

Each week our virtual horse racing game releases new features and fixes some issues. Probably the best new feature that was released this week is the ability to go into the upcoming trainer tournaments and search by age and racing surface. As we add more and more tournaments, filtering through all the available trainer tournaments should be a breeze.

When playing our game, knowing and understanding horse racing definitely is a plus, but at the end of the day, it's just understanding how our game works and knowing where to find all the hints and secrets and what tactics can be utilized to give you an advantage that is even more important.

There have been so many studies comparing the sire and dam estimates of heritability, you can spend months going through all of the different documents. And just when you believe there are ways to truly identify where the strength will come from in breeding, specifically in thoroughbreds, there are other studies that prove this may not be the case.

Though race horse breeding does have a lot of different viable theories behind it, the bottom line is - just like a lot of things in horse racing, breeding is also a gamble. Some of the most expensive horses in the world with perfect conformation have brought an enormous amount of money in the sales ring and simply never proved out on the race track.

They said that Arazi was unbeatable going into the 1992 Kentucky Derby. He was the super horse, the new Secretariat, and to many, actually running the Derby was just a formality.

Any list of the greatest racehorses of all time is going to include the speedy gray Lady's Secret, and when Blood-Horse Magazine released their "Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century," Lady's Secret came in at #76. She was was a smallish filly at around 900 pounds, but she had a heart as big as her head and backed down from no horse, male or female.

Summer Bird gave Kent Desormeaux his first Belmont Stakes victory back on June 6th, and after being partially blamed for Big Brown's Belmont failure in 2008, the Hall of Fame rider was able to redeem himself with his patient, well timed ride on Summer Bird. The Birdstone colt, who is owned by K.K.