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The Alysheba Stakes is the most recent addition to the extravaganza of stakes races that surround the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks each year. Named after the 1987 Kentucky Derby winner, the Alysheba Stakes is a Grade 2 contest for top older horses going 1 1/16-miles on the Churchill Downs dirt track.

The 138th running of the Kentucky Derby will be on Saturday, May 5, 2012 with a Post Time of 6:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time. There will be a full field of twenty horses for this race, which is considered the most prestigious thoroughbred horse race in North America, South America and, well, the Western Hemisphere, really.

The countdown has begun for those of us who can’t live without thoroughbred horse racing. The first Saturday of May is within sight, less than a month away and there are a whole bunch of unanswered questions before 20 three-year-olds enter the starting gate at Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby. Will Union Rags rebound from his 3rd place finish in the 2012 Florida Derby?

A quick look online and you’ll find that there have been many horses that have won the first two legs of the Triple Crown, but fell short in the Belmont. Alydar is not one of those horses.

The highlight of the Maryland racing season begins each spring with the commencement of live racing at historic Pimlico Race Course, home of the Preakness Stakes. The 2012 season, which opened March 30 and will run for eight consecutive weeks, continues a tradition in the state that dates all the way back to 1870.

The Preakness Stakes, the middle jewel of Thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown, annually attracts some of the best 3-year-old racehorses in the country to Pimlico Race Course in Maryland.

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The Immensely popular Smarty Jones! Smarty Jones had royal blood flowing through his veins, the kind of royalty that almost made you want to check to see if his blood were dark blue instead of red. What kind of royalty? You want names? Okay, you got names. How’s Foolish Pleasure, Northern Dancer, and Count Fleet for you? More names you say?

The Grade 1 Santa Margarita Stakes is annually Santa Anita Park's championship race for fillies and mares. As such, the female counterpart to the historic Santa Anita Handicap has been won by some of the most legendary female racehorses in history, not the least of which was Zenyatta in 2010.

Citation was a horse that, if you saw race today, you wouldn’t believe was real. He was, of course, the eighth Triple Crown winner, completing the sweep of the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes in 1948.