There wasn't too much going on last weekend, but the one horse who caught my eye is probably pretty obvious.

The Peter Pan

When Frank Stronach decided to point Harlem Rocker to the Canadian Triple Crown, instead of running in the Preakness at the track that Stronach owns, it all but guaranteed a Big Brown walkover in the middle jewel of the Triple Crown.

Afleet Alex captured the hearts and minds of the horse racing world during the Triple Crown campaign of 2005. Going into the Kentucky Derby, Afleet Alex had an impressive resume as he collected the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes as a Juvenile and showed impressive ability in winning the Grade 2 Arkansas Derby by 8 lengths leading up to the Kentucky Derby.

It is an exciting time to be developing software, and by exciting, I mean the horror movie "is there an axe murderer in the closet" kind of excitement. All of the different versions of Windows to support have created a lot of issues for software developers around the globe. But, our dedicated team of code monkeys has been working incredibly long hours to get Horse Racing Fantasy Community Edition into the hands of our users and we're glad to say that we began offering Horse Racing Fantasy CE (v 10.713) earlier this week as a fully Vista UAC aware program with an enhanced installation process and numerous other under-the-hood tweaks and fixes that make the program by far the best version we have ever released. If you haven't gotten it yet, what are you waiting for, you can download it free here.

Becoming a Vista aware program required a major rewrite of many portions of the program, and this created an issue for backward compatibility for our existing Horse Files. As of this evening, we have updated all of the Horse Files in our shopping cart except for one, More Horses of 2004, which should be updated early tomorrow to work with the newest build of our software.

Kentucky Derby 134 is in the books, and what a BIG performance we witnessed, as BIG BROWN romped to victory by five lengths. Many people doubted that he could accomplish this feat because of his post position, but Big Brown became the first Derby winner from the 20-hole since Clyde Van Dusen in 1929.

Run - don’t walk - to your nearest movie theater offering the brilliant, new documentary, “The First Saturday in May.” Or buy the DVD. If you’re one of us who love racing, it will blow you away. If you know nothing about racing, you’ll quickly discover why the rest of us are so passionate about it.

Horse Racing Simulation, LLC is proud to announce that top trainer Doug O'Neill is joining our team as an Industry Professional blogger. In the coming weeks you will begin to read Doug thoughts on our game and the sport of horse racing.

Please join the rest of us at Horse Racing Simulation and the Horse Racing Fantasy Community in welcoming Doug on board!

The crude little video that started it all!

Continuing with our investigation into turf racing today we will talk about speed in a turf race. Now of course it is much different than speed in dirt racing. To begin with try to think of as many horses as you can remember winning turf stakes wire to wire. I would bet that the answer you come up with is not many.

Many thanks to Partymanners for submitting this awesome video of Afleet Alex at the Preakness Stakes. Don't forget that you can actually play Afleet Alex in our game, along with hundreds more of the very best racehorses in history. If you've seen or made a video that features a horse in our game, we'd love to see it!