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Apparently the deck chairs on the Titanic needed rearrangning – again. Word arrived this week that there would be a new system in 2013 to qualify for a place in one of the starting gates for the Kentucky Derby.

the hard-working players who put on the show last weekend in New York will be back on stage this weekend in Louisville and Los Angeles in a cluster of events every bit as significant in their own way as the Belmont Stakes.

On the morning after the Belmont Stakes, in a state of renewed bewilderment, a pilgrim hastened to the Belmont barn of Allen Jerkens to ask the burning question. Jerkens, being to Thoroughbred racing what Delphi is to oracles, figured to be the right ...

The injury sustained by I’ll Have Another, forcing his scratch from the 144th Belmont Stakes the following day, was a deep wound to the heart of the sport, poised as it was to welcome the first Triple Crown winner since 1978 to the ranks of the 11 ...

What are the odds that I’ll Have Another completes his sweep of the Triple Crown series? If you're betting in Las Vegas, you should be able to get higher odds than I'll Have Another's 4-5 price on the track's morning line.

There is really no way to practice training a horse to run in the Belmont Stakes other than actually running a horse in the Belmont Stakes, which is why Chad Brown, at the ripe old age of 33, will be glad to at least get the ball rolling on Saturday.

As I’ll Have Another tries to become racing’s first Triple Crown winner in 34 years, plenty of casual fans will be asking: Why is this feat so difficult? Why is it more difficult than it was in the 1970s, when three different horses in a span of six ...

For all their battle-scarred cynicism about an often unpredictable game, horse-racing fans can also be romantically credulous about the justice of the racetrack when it comes to the Triple Crown.

Of all the thorny questions dividing the nation, nothing seems to stir the emotions quite like the rampant speculation over the potential impact of what could be the first Triple Crown winner in 34 years. Of course, 33 years is not an eternity. It only ...

The Triple Crown series almost unfailingly thwarts horses who are not among the sport's all-time greats. In the past 64 years, only Citation, Secretariat, Seattle Slew, and Affirmed have swept the 3-year-old classics.

When I’ll Have Another made his last surge in the stretch of the Preakness and caught Bodemeister, this wasn’t simply a case of a stretch-runner overhauling a tired leader. I’ll Have Another’s performance - though the winning margin was only a neck - ...

The Preakness poses a whole new challenge in a shorter race, a smaller field, and a two-week turnaround. Chris McCarron, who still considers Pimlico ground zero of his illustrious career, had just about every possible experience in 13 Preakness rides, ...

Eoin Harty won a Pimlico Special in 1999, his final season as Bob Baffert’s top assistant, when 1998 Preakness hero Real Quiet defeated 1997 Preakness runner-up Free House. Harty will be back on Friday with Endorsement.

On the Monday morning following the Kentucky Derby, still wiped out and hoarse from cheering home I’ll Have Another, Paul Reddam sat down to a series of meetings with fund managers in the financial district of New York.

Paul Reddam, owner of Kentucky Derby winner I'll Have Another, went from academia to Churchill Downs and now to Pimlico on Saturday for the Preakness, though in the middle there was another key phase - a business innovation that allowed him to go from ...