Big Brown has talent, but can he outrun adversity? Saturday, May 17
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As formidable as Big Brown is, the Preakness could be a horse race.
As formidable as Big Brown is, the Preakness could be a horse race.
His trainer thinks the Kentucky Derby winner needs to move fast today.
POST TIME 6:35 p.m. Star-Telegram horse racing writer Gary West highlights his picks for today's races. Odds are provided by Lone Star Park, with program number, post position (where different), jockey, trainer and weight. The thoroughbred racing season continues through July 27.
Big Brown has to defeat the circumstances, as well as 12 horses, in the Preakness.
POST TIME 6:35 p.m. Star-Telegram horse racing writer Gary West highlights his picks for today's races. Odds are provided by Lone Star Park, with program number, post position (where different), jockey, trainer and weight. The thoroughbred racing season continues through July 27.
POST TIME 6:35 p.m. Star-Telegram horse racing writer Gary West highlights his picks for today's races. Odds are provided by Lone Star Park, with program number, post position (where different), jockey, trainer and weight. The thoroughbred racing season continues through July 27.
BALTIMORE -- Running on the outside has been very good to Big Brown. Now the Kentucky Derby winner gets to try things from the middle.
Saturday's was best because of the quality on the racetrack, from the top trio all the way back to the 13th horse. And, in the end, The Bad Cat proved to be best of the best.
Something horse racing needs could emerge from today's big stakes races.
POST TIME 1:35 p.m. Star-Telegram horse racing writer Gary West highlights his picks for today's races. Odds are provided by Lone Star Park, with program number, post position (where different), jockey, trainer and weight. The thoroughbred racing season continues through July 27.
The legendary trainer is bringing Samba Rooster to the Lone Star Derby.
POST TIME 6:35 p.m. Star-Telegram horse racing writer Gary West highlights his picks for today's races. Odds are provided by Lone Star Park, with program number, post position (where different), jockey, trainer and weight. The thoroughbred racing season continues through July 27.
Sculptor Alexa King will create a statue of Barbaro in time for the Kentucky Derby next year. The statue will be part of Barbaro's grave in front of Gate 1. The Derby winner was euthanized in January 2007 after he broke his leg during the Preakness Stakes. King plans to use 500 to 700 pounds of wax clay to create the 1,500-pound statue.
POST TIME 6:35 p.m. Star-Telegram horse racing writer Gary West highlights his picks for today's races. Odds are provided by Lone Star Park, with program number, post position (where different), jockey, trainer and weight. The thoroughbred racing season continues through July 27.
The talented El Gato Malo will compete in this season's richest race.
STANTON, Del. -- The trainer of Kentucky Derby runner-up Eight Belles on Tuesday ordered drug testing as part of the autopsy, intent on dispelling any suggestion the fallen filly may have been on steroids.
The horse racing industry is not to blame for Eight Belles' death after the Kentucky Derby.
But it comes at a high price with the death of promising filly Eight Belles.
Coming to terms with the 134th Kentucky Derby requires some meditation.
Jockey Glenn Murphy has been suspended 180 days, through Oct. 27, and fined $2,500 for possession of an electrical device at Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie.
POST TIME 1:35 p.m. Star-Telegram horse racing writer Gary West highlights his picks for today's races. Odds are provided by Lone Star Park, with program number, post position (where different), jockey, trainer and weight. The thoroughbred racing season continues through July 27.
Skip Koepnick knows where his tax rebate is going -- to a weekend of fun at Churchill Downs.
A dominating performance by the winning horse is overshadowed by tragedy.
Pyro looks like a horse that can strike the moment perfectly.
POST TIME 1:35 p.m. Star-Telegram horse racing writer Gary West highlights his picks for today's races. Odds are provided by Lone Star Park, with program number, post position (where different), jockey, trainer and weight. The thoroughbred racing season continues through July 27.
Larry Jones is halfway to history.
Trainer Richard Dutrow's confidence and choices might doom Big Brown.
POST TIME 6:35 p.m. Star-Telegram horse racing writer Gary West highlights his picks for today's races. Odds are provided by Lone Star Park, with program number, post position (where different), jockey, trainer and weight. The thoroughbred racing season continues through July 27.
POST TIME 6:35 p.m. Star-Telegram horse racing writer Gary West highlights his picks for today's races. Odds are provided by Lone Star Park, with program number, post position (where different), jockey, trainer and weight. The thoroughbred racing season continues through July 27.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Big Brown is all in and so is the filly Eight Belles, a perfect combination for an intriguing 134th Kentucky Derby.
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