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Next stop Baltimore, and if you have not already gotten your ticket, it might be too late as the racing office at Pimlico is predicting a full-field for the Preakness Stakes on May 15.

While the Derby is limited to 20 starters, the tighter turns and smaller track at Pimlico can only handed 14 starters, here is how the field is shaping up.

While the UAE Derby has never yielded a Kentucky Derby winner, it is nonetheless a prestigious race for three-year-old and needs to be watched this season, as this is reportedly the last chance for the Godolphin Stables of Sheikh Mohammed to find a legitimate Triple Crown contender.

The road to the Kentucky Derby runs though Gulfstream Park in South Florida this weekend as three-year-olds go to the post in the Florida Derby and Swale Stakes.

The complexion of the $750,000 Grade I Florida Derby changed dramatically earlier in the week when the connections of Eskendereya decided to pass on this race in favor of the Wood Memorial.

Every year, American thoroughbred racing produces scores of very good race horses, but very few great ones. That’s a fact … and the reason why there hasn’t been a Triple Crown winner since the 1970s, more than thirty years ago.

Horsewomen are a rough and tumble bunch. They can mix it up with the best of them, and they are most definitely not afraid to get their hands dirty. One of the greatest things about them is that they almost always have great senses of humor.

A distinguished group of scientists sat around drinking coffee one day (even scientists aren't able to think in the morning without caffeine!) and came up with the unsurprising conclusion that we human beings are the most intelligent species, that we are far more advanced in brain power to all of the earth's other creatures.

As a horse racing fan for over ten years, I was surprised but not shocked when at the 2009 Eclipse Awards Rachel Alexandra was crowned as Horse of the Year. There isn't anybody that would argue that the incredible 3-year-old filly ran some of the most memorable races that horse racing fans will never forget during this last season.

Lunch in Ireland

Two Irishmen were in a bar on a Friday night discussing the following day's racing at the Curragh when one said to the other, "I have a tip on a horse called Lunch, tomorrow."

They have fallen out of fashion in recent times, but most sports fans remember those Mastercard commercials, right?You know, the ones that you'd see when you were watching the World Series or the NFL playoffs or the Super Bowl. The whole idea would be that they'd show us a family heading to some big game, possibly a World Series or some other playoff game.

At school, the only papers that you write are on horses.
The cute fella standing next to the trailer doesn't grab your attention, but horse inside the trailer does.
The stall your horse lives in is cleaner than your house, and you like it that way.
Your whole life revolves around horse practice and shows, and you deny it when people tell you that you have no social life.