Sports in Perspective
This weekend’s Horse Racing feature race is the second jewel of the elusive Triple Crown, the 2012 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Racetrack in Baltimore, Maryland. The main focus in the race will be a re-match between Kentucky Derby 1-2 finishers I’ll Have Another and Bodemeister. A total of 11 three year olds have been enter [...]
Horse Racing’s 2012 Triple Crown series continues this Saturday where Kentucky Derby runner-up, the fleet Bodemeister, has drawn post position #7 and has been installed as the 8/5 morning line favorite for the second leg of the Triple Crown, the 2012 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Racetrack in Baltimore, Maryland. 2012 Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have [...]
As 2012 Kentucky Derby winner I’ll Have Another prepares for the 2012 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico this Saturday, I have a little confession to make about my beloved sport of Horse Racing. At the risk of getting my rear end kicked by people who were born and raised inMaryland, I’ve always thought of the Preakness [...]
Mark Valeski used a strong four wide, sweeping move to the lead on the turn for home to capture the 2012 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park in New York on Saturday in this past weekend’s Horse Racing highlighted race. In doing so, he set himself up perfectly for his (possible) next start, the 2012 [...]
In sticking with the Triple Crown theme this time of year, in this weekend’s Horse Racing preview we will be looking at the 2012 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park in New York. This years running of the Grade II, one and one eight mile race will be led by Mark Valeski and the speedy [...]
Now that the dust has settled a few days after the Kentucky Derby, the thoughts of most Horse Racing fans usually turns to “Can he win the Triple Crown”? We will find out in about eight or nine days when I’ll Have Another, who is already at Pimlico Racetrack in Maryland, attempts to add the [...]
I’ll Have Another, who was the recipient of a remarkably good trip and great ride, ran down the fleet Bodemeister in deep stretch to win the 2012 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky on Saturday evening. The son of Flower Alley won the biggest race Horse Racing has to offer in front of [...]
I know I’ve said this before so if you’ve heard it already, I apologize in advance. With all do respects to the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, the Breeders Cup, the Dubai World Cup, the Japan Cup, or any other horse race they run on this planet or any other, this Saturday marks Horse Racing’s [...]
With all do respects to the Breeders Cup, this weekend is the most exciting weekend in the sport of Horse Racing. Between the 2012 Kentucky Oaks on Friday, and the 2012 Kentucky Derby on Saturday and both at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, I can’t think of another weekend that gets the butterflies going in [...]
If you ask that question to 100 random Horse Racing fans, you’d probably get –I don’t know– 10 or 12 different answers. If you ask that same question to the 20 trainers who are putting the finishing touches on their horses in preparation for Saturday’s 2012 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Down in Louisville, Kentucky, you [...]