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Zac Purton: Driven and Relentless

POSTED: February 27, 2019

By: Peter Monaco I'm lucky to be friends with a very patient and driven young man, named Zac Purton. Zac is an Australian jockey, and...

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Battle of Midway- The Last Great Son Of Smart Strike

POSTED: February 24, 2019

Battle of Midway  By Kaitlin Free Photos By Courtney Snow Broken bones are difficult to fix but sometimes hearts even more so. A loss of...

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Great Too Early: 5 2-Year-Olds Who Failed as 3-Year-Olds

POSTED: February 24, 2019

Great Too Early: By: Peter Lee In the book American Pharoah, author Joe Drape recounts an incident in which Vinery Farm manager Frances Relihan, impressed...

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Sunday Silence and Easy Goer: A Jewel of a Duel

POSTED: February 24, 2019

By Nick Costa This is not the first time Past the Wire featured what was perhaps the best running of the Preakness, and one of...

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10 Years Since Rachel Alexandra and the Oaks

POSTED: February 23, 2019

by Mary Dixon Reynolds This year, we're celebrating the 10th anniversary of Rachel Alexandra's breathtaking Kentucky Oaks, which unwittingly began her campaign for Horse of...

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Sports Betting: Good or Bad for Horse Racing?

POSTED: February 21, 2019

Editorial by Michael Valiante There is one advantage of being old. If you live long enough you truly will “have seen it all”. So when...

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Hidden Scroll on Target for Possible Derby Run

POSTED: February 19, 2019

Many of us were particularly taken with the debut performance of Bill Mott’s Hidden Scroll on the Pegasus World Cup undercard at Gulfstream Park in...

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With Heart and Determination Victor Espinoza Returns by Kaitlin Free

POSTED: February 18, 2019

The human soul is an entity that cannot sit idle while business remains unfinished. It has nothing left to prove to anyone, except to one’s...

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Reputations and Radiographs

POSTED: February 14, 2019

by Kate Richards When reading about a contentious issue or a tragedy, it is easy to think of racing’s worst-case scenarios. And about the impact...

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That was a phenomenal article Jonathan. Thank you for writing it and sharing it. Ruffian was my second love (after Man O' War) and I simply cannot stop the tears from falling every time I read about this magnificent black beauty.

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