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This is the time of year I beat back my inner wise guy and acknowledge, yes, I’d like a horse to pull into New York with a chance to become the 12th Triple Crown champion and the first to do so since Affirmed in 1978. The reason? When the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes champion shows up at
BALTIMORE -- Few things related to the consumption of sports have changed more in the last decade than their measurability. The fan (or the writer) knows more now about what he has seen than ever before. This is a deliciously... more »
The crowd began to swell outside Barn 3, the home of I’ll Have Another, winner of Kentucky Derby 138, Sunday morning at Churchill Downs. Friends of winning owner J. Paul Reddam and trainer Doug O’Neill. Media folks ... more »
They wake up, and then they sing. Team O'Neill — as Kentucky Derby winner Doug O'Neill and his group of assistants and grooms are called — rises early, like all horsemen. In Baltimore, where the crew is preparing I'll Have... more »
Possessing a moniker familiar to infield revelers and non-racing fans alike, I’ll Have Another will be a popular favorite to duplicate his Kentucky Derby performance in the Preakness Stakes, second jewel of... more »
Last summer, the trainer Doug O’Neill was formally sanctioned after one of his racehorses at Hollywood Park in California tested positive for illegal drugs. A year before, in 2010, O’Neill was punished for administering an ... more »
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