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By Jude T. Feld The field listed on Keeneland’s Toyota Blue Grass (G1) draw board.KeenelandPhoto To read our Kentucky Derby Radar – Chapter 6 click here. With only three weeks to the Kentucky Derby (G1) it is time to sort the contenders from the pretenders. There is only one last-ditch chance for three-year-olds to amass […]

By Jude T. Feld Eskendereya’s huge Wood Memorial (G1) victory makes it a strong possibilty that we could see the Zayat Stable silks in the Churchill Downs winners’ circle on the first Saturday in May. Last weekend’s racing underlined the fact that Lookin At Lucky and Eskendereya are probably the best three-year-old colts in the […]

By Jude T. Feld Joe Steiner breezing Lookin At Lucky for trainer Bob Baffert at Santa Anita Three straight weekends of Kentucky Derby (G1) preps and little to show for it – Five horses bouncing around like pinballs down the Tampa Bay Downs stretch, none of whom seemed to want to win; Two longshots, noses […]

By Jude T. Feld 1) Flying into Tampa on a windy day is not for the feint of heart. 2) Tampa Bay Downs looks better on television. 3) I have never been to a track that served empanadas and Cuban sandwiches but Tampa Bay does and they are both terrific! 4) The ice cream man […]

By Jude T. Feld Will we see it Saturday at Gulfstream Park in the Florida Derby (G1)? GULFSTREAM RUMOR MILL (Posted Wednesday, March 17 at 10:30 p.m. ET) As usual, lots of talk around the track wherever and whenever Derby hopefuls converge. Rumor #1) The reason ESKENDEREYA scratched as a heavy favorite from the Florida […]

By Jude T. Feld Mendip raced himself into Kentucky Derby (G1) contention at MeydanGodolphin Photo LOOKIN AT LUCKY seems to be Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert’s best shot at Kentucky Derby (G1) victory number four. The son of Smart Strike is consistent and tough. Although he missed a couple of days training with a […]

By Jude T. Feld LOOKIN AT LUCKY seems to be Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert’s best shot at Kentucky Derby (G1) victory number four. The son of Smart Strike is consistent and tough although he missed a couple of days training with a fever earlier this month. We’ll still be patient and keep him […]

By Jude T. Feld Joe Steiner breezing Lookin At Lucky for trainer Bob Baffert at Santa Anita With future book wagering on tap this weekend, it was time to dust off the ol’ chart books, print out some pps and decide who might be worth a few bucks of speculation if the price is right. […]

Lord Michael Taylor’s Daylight Express Taking the 2009 Edition

By Jude T. Feld Bobby Frankel 1941-2009Gulfstream Park Photo For the last several months, the first thing I would do when I got out of bed in the morning was turn on the computer and go to bloodhorse.com to see if he was still here. I prayed for a story that he shook it and […]