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Kentucky Derby favorite Friesan Fire is on the early Preakness Stakes entry list despite sustaining a quarter injury in the Run for the Roses. Four new shooters are in.

Win Willy, Quality Road, and Take the Points were the last dropouts from the Kentucky Derby line-up this week, leaving spots for Atomic Rain and Nowhere to Hide.

Nobiz Like Shobiz, Scat Daddy, Circular Quay, Any Given Saturday, Cowtown Cat, Notional, and Tiago are finished with prep races. They are getting ready for Derby 133.

Records many times go by the wayside, but experience is seldom a losing proposition. Big Brown takes a three-race career against Colonel John, 6-4-2-0-0, Saturday.

On center stage, and off her knees, the filly Rags to Riches did not disappoint in the 2007 Belmont. She showed everything said of her. Curlin battled her bravely.

What's next on the thoroughbred racing scene will unfold toward the Breeders' Cup this fall when duels could see renewals. The TC runs thrilled despite no new champ.

War Pass, the 2008 Experimental Free Handicap leader, his chief rival Pyro, and Court Vision are early choices to excel in this season's classic competition.

Opinions are sharply defined as a wide open Kentucky Derby post offers a batch of talented and proven colts. Trainer Todd Pletcher has five trainees, but no favorite.

A two-of-three winner as a juvenile, Any Given Saturday won the Sam F. Davis Stakes in his 2007 debut, then cooled off. Now, he' s won the Haskell and Brooklyn Handicaps.

Triple Crown hopefuls are training their way to that first Saturday in May. Any Given Saturday makes a strong case for his roses in May in his Sam F. Davis Stakes win.

A Breeders' Cup card pumped up to include 14 races this year garners full television coverage. Some top level male two-year-olds will get long scrutiny in the Juvenile.

Eight races are scheduled on day two, Saturday Oct. 27th, in the Breeders' Cup at Monmouth Park, New Jersey. First post is 12:30 pm. Friday's 3 races begin at 4:20 pm.

With a much smaller field, can Street Sense find his path open in the Preakness? Hard Spun, Curlin, and Circular Quay are repeaters from the Derby who will try to close.

Coming off of victories in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile and the Turf, respectively, last month, Corinthian and English Channel will retire to quiet lives off the track.

Giacomo's little half brother, Tiago, bursts on the scene to catch Pletcher's Roxy at Santa Anita. In the Illinois Derby, Cowtown Cat gives Pletcher another Derby hope.

On a muddy track in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, Curlin cruised to set the all-time earnings record, surpassing the fabulous Cigar. Curlin has won $10 million in 15 races.

After turning in just one race where he placed third since the grueling run in the Belmont Stakes against the tough Rags to Riches, Curlin proved still stretch worthy.

Curlin beat the Derby champ by a long nose; now he takes on a distance-bred filly trained by Todd Pletcher, who is 0-28 in TC matches, in Saturday's Belmont Stakes.

There cannot be a Triple Crown winner this season, but the Belmont Stakes offers girl versus boys; speedy Curlin versus speedy Hard Spun. Upsetter Tiago is also in.

UAE's first Triple Crown winner is Asiatic Boy, victorious in the Dubai Derby by nine lengths. Vengeance of Rain scores for Hong Kong in the Dubai Sheema Classic.

In a squeeze play to the wire, jockey John Velazquez steered the Todd Pletcher 5-year-old trainee English Channel to his 12th win. Fabulous Strike captured the Vosburgh.

Breeders' Cup Juvenile Champ Street Sense is headed to the Kentucky Derby ahead in graded stakes earnings and ranked No.1 by the NTRA. Can he break the juvenile jinx?

While entries for the 2009 Kentucky Derby may not be settled until May 2, when twenty Thoroughbreds gather at the gate, graded stakes earnings qualifiers keep shifting.

On the board in all eight of his starts, Great Hunter kicked into gear at Santa Anita Park in the R.B. Lewis Stakes. He goes to the Blue Grass Stakes as No.1 contender.

With the brilliant filly Rags to Riches on the sidelines, the female side of the Breeders' Cup World Championships will still have Octave, Unbridled Belle, Nashoba's Key.

Scat Daddy and Circular Quay are Todd Pletcher's highly touted colts. His King of the Roxy, after a win in Florida, has climbed to No.4 in the Run for the Roses poll.

Todd Pletcher gave every owner saddle time at the 2007 Kentucky Derby, but his trainees finished sixth, eighth, ninth, 18th, and dead last (20th).

Not many Derby horses want another shot at the hotshot, Big Brown. Top trainer Todd Pletcher will go with new shooter Behindatthebar, victor in the Lexington Stakes.

Three early season stars now lead the ranks of thoroughbreds with two wins from five starts. Nobiz Like Shobiz, Any Given Saturday, Tiago were Triple Crown hopefuls.

Focus was not a question as Nobiz Like Shobiz fought hard to win the Wood Memorial. Battling Any Given Saturday, then Sightseeing, Nobiz upped the Derby ante.

Two of three polls rank Pioneerof The Nile as the No. 1 choice for Saturday's 135th running of the Kentucky Derby. Friesan Fire and I Want Revenge follow as No. 2.

With Thunder Gulch and Circle of Life in his past, Circular Quay's trainer points the colt toward the Derby winner's circle. Pletcher hasn't won roses in 14 Derby tries.

While Todd Pletcher's Derby Five failed to fire, his filly entries in the Kentucky Oaks handled an off track to finish 1-2. Rags to Riches has won four in a row.

In Dubai March 31 for the $21 million World Cup card, Todd Pletcher was 0-5. In Florida, his Kentucky Derby hope, Scat Daddy, and five undercard runners won six races.

First pointed to the Preakness, Mr. Fantasy may be headed to the Metropolitan Handicap instead. Holy Bull son Hull will join the Preakness line-up with filly Rachel A.

Scat Daddy won a big Derby prep at Gulfstream Park March 3 over Nobiz Like Shobiz, a Triple Crown favorite. Daddy's second victory against Shobiz vaulted him to No.2.

With War Pass out of the Derby, the next top contenders present a muddied picture. Trainer Todd Pletcher has 2 qualifiers, and two fillies are possible entrants.

The Hollywood Gold Cup could be next for Dubai victor Spring At Last; Kelly's Landing wins the Dubai Golden Shaheen, will rest; Friendly Island gives Pletcher a 2nd.

Lava Man, Rags to Riches, and Hard Spun fill out the top five money leaders as of July. Asmussen, Curlin's trainer, and Pletcher, who trains Rags, are top ten leaders.

Cobalt Blue and Chelokee moved into the Derby Top Ten List, while Street Sense continues as the No.1 pick. Scat Daddy, Notional, Circular Quay are headed for Kentucky.

Barclay Tagg's Tale of Ekati and Todd Pletcher's Monba and Cowboy Cal all helped bump War Pass and Pyro from a possible 1-2 Kentucky Derby favorites positioning.

While Any Given Saturday remains just on pace in graded stakes earnings, Cowtown Cat also moves into contention for Pletcher. Tiago, a new Derby hope, has credentials.

Todd Pletcher has a slew of Triple Crown hopefuls, including Seattle Slew offspring, Ravel. Stewart Elliott is riding Teuflesberg. Barclay Tagg is again hopeful.

Picture perfect Kentucky Derby champ Street Sense, Belmont winner Rags to Riches, and Preakness victor Curlin head into 2007's second half season as HOY contenders.

The Wood Memorial is an opportunity for Nobiz Like Shobiz. Will blinkers help his behavior? Tagg says, hopefully. Any Given Saturday gets another try at Street Sense.

Steve Asmussen's Curlin, the colt from nowhere, became 2007's best, while Todd Pletcher's top filly, Rags to Riches captured the Eclipse Award for best three-year-old.

With one furlong remaining, Scat Daddy overtakes Stormello, Nobiz Like Showbiz and Adore the Gold to win the Fountain of Youth. Scat Daddy solidifies credentials.

Trainer Richard Dutrow, Jr. won't ask for the opinions of women trainers. Some male counterparts disagree with this attitude. Women trainers don't womanize the issue.

Todd Pletcher likes Dunkirk in the Belmont Stakes even with Calvin Borel and Chip Woolley re-teamed for Mine That Bird. Nick Zito tries for a third Belmont upset.

While Curlin and Ginger Punch set the standard in the Classic and the Distaff, War Pass passed his Juvenile challenge flawlessly. Corinthian walloped the field by 6-1/2.