Terry's Blog
No Triple Crown in Spite of "Chalky" Day
May 22, 2011
While there were a lot of short-priced winners during the day at Simulcast, such was not the case at Pimlico in the Preakness. Instead it was Shackleford, a speedball, who pulled a Rachel Alexandra and led from wire-to-wire, holding off the Kentucky Derby winner, Animal Kingdom, to get the honors in the middle jewel of racing's elusive Triple Crown. Read More
Preakness Perspective
May 20, 2011
Someone asked me a question this week: Why is this the 136th Preakness and we just finished the 137th Kentucky Derby? The better question might have been, why isn't this the 122nd Preakness? Apparently there was no Preakness at Pimlico from 1894 to 1908. Read More
Alternation and Accounting
May 15, 2011
All hail to Alternation. He went from the horse who was crazy in the starting gate, to the horse who started in a walk in the Arkansas Derby, to the grinding winner of Saturday's Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont. He's come a long way and now appears to have a bright future. No such luck for this handicapper, who would have been shut out had there not been a track called Delaware Park on Saturday. Delaware yielded three winners of yours truly, all Oaklawn-raced horses, and saved what would have been a total disaster. Read More
Saturday's Peter Pan, a Consolation Race
May 13, 2011
If you had a three-year-old not up to the stress and strain of last Saturday's Kentucky Derby, you had the option to point to this Saturday's $200,000 Peter Pan as a kind of consolation stakes at a mile-and-an-eighth. Read More
Derby Weekend Disappointments for Oaklawn Fans
May 08, 2011
With plenty of reasons to be excited about the chances for Oaklawn-raced horses to experience great moments on Kentucky Derby weekend, things turned sour on Friday and even worse on Saturday. No wins were recorded in the big stakes, Nehro did run a game second in the Kentucky Derby, but that was overshadowed by injury to Archarcharch and the disappointing races from the likes of Arienza, Joyful Victory and Smiling Tiger in other key spots. Read More
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