Nostalgic Horse

By: Elizabeth Rancani The year was 1979, and one confident trainer boasted that only an act of God could beat his horse. He also said that his young colt was the best horse to ever look through a bridle. He would be the third consecutive Triple Crown winner, for certain. Does the confidence of Bud [...]

Everyone from Bob Baffert to your casual race day fan is ready to concede the Triple Crown and The Belmont Stakes to the wonder horse that is Big Brown. The way he won the Preakness and Kentucky Derby, the Belmont is a sure thing, right? Anyone who has suffered recently through defeats of ten double [...]

by: Elizabeth Rancani Horse racing suffered another blow on Saturday, and even those of us who love the sport, are questioning why. Many in the industry want to get past it, brush it under the rug and toss it up to accidents happen in thoroughbred racing. That is, perhaps easier for them to believe than [...]

By: Elizabeth Rancani Big Brown did the impossible. He won the Derby in convincing fashion with only three starts from the far outside post. He is a super freak, and may just be the best horse to step on the track this decade. His win was eerily similar to Barbaro’s, and since Big Brown already [...]

By: Elizabeth Rancani If Big Brown wins today, he will be the super freak that his connections claim he is. He will have earned every inch of his Derby roses, and just may finally end the Triple Crown drought. He is perhaps the only horse in the field capable of doing that. But, is he [...]

Not one major handicapper has Bob Black Jack on their radar. There are twenty horses in the Kentucky Derby, and he isn’t even in the top ten. That may be a mistake, and if his pedigree boasted A.P. Indy, he would certainly be higher on the list. True, he does not have the running style [...]

By: Elizabeth Rancani When Pure Clan lost last time out it had little to do with her jockey. So, now Prado gets the mount on Pure Clan, but faces the same thing that got her beat last time; no pace to run at. There are no confirmed front runners in this field, so it will [...]