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  • Day 7: 2013 Kentucky Derby Feature – Overanalyze

    Day 7: 2013 Kentucky Derby Feature – Overanalyze

    Tweet The 7th horse in our one feature a day leading up to the 2013 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs is Overanalyze. Overanalyze – Trainer Todd Pletcher – Owner Repole Stable This Dixie Union colt had a successful debut to his career taking a five...

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  • Day 5: 2013 Kentucky Derby Feature – Java’s War

    Day 5: 2013 Kentucky Derby Feature – Java’s War

    Tweet The 5th horse in our one feature a day leading up to the 2013 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs is Java’s War. Java’s War – Trainer Kenneth McPeek – Owners Charles Fipke The 2nd colt in this field is also from the late sire...

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  • Kentucky Derby: Mark Valeski Out, Lukas/Optimizer In

    Kentucky Derby: Mark Valeski Out, Lukas/Optimizer In

    Tweet D. WAYNE LUKAS When you think about Kentucky Derby trainers over the last three decades, you automatically think about him. He’s had 44 horses start in the Derby. Four were winners, one finished second, and five others finished third. Only a 9% winning percentage,...

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  • More Kentucky Derby Information, Stats & Trends

    More Kentucky Derby Information, Stats & Trends

    Tweet Below, you will find the Kentucky Derby winners for the past 20 years and how they performed in the race prior. You will also view the winner of the race if the Derby winner did not win the last prep race. In addition, analysis...

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  • Kentucky Derby Prep Race Winners & Times

    Kentucky Derby Prep Race Winners & Times

    Tweet Below, you will view a list of winners for the Kentucky Derby prep races from 2012, along with their times. You will be able to compare them to last year’s winners and their respective times. It’s an interesting way to see how this year’s...

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    138th Kentucky Derby Starting to Take Shape

    Tweet The 138th Kentucky Derby is starting to take shape and the list of contenders is becoming more clear as each day passes. With 25 Derby prep races of one mile or longer now in the books, we have a better idea of what to...

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    2012 Kentucky Derby Contender, Rankings Shake-up

    Tweet We now have most of the Kentucky Derby prep races in the books and I’ve seen many top 5-10 rankings change quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. Last weekend, we saw undefeated Gemologist get his most important victory to date by...

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  • Updated 2012 Kentucky Derby Prep Winners (Apr 14)

    Updated 2012 Kentucky Derby Prep Winners (Apr 14)

    Tweet Here is the updated list of winners as of April 7th for each of the 2012 Kentucky Derby prep races, so you can keep track of who are the true contenders as we lead up to the 138th running of the Kentucky Derby at...

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  • This Weekend, Horse of the Year Implications?

    This Weekend, Horse of the Year Implications?

    Tweet The debate keeps raging on. Who is the front runner for Horse of the Year and other Divisions? In a year where no horse has dominated its’ class, there are many opinions on who at this point are the leading candidates. There are two...

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    Day 2 Breeders’ Cup Results, Wrap-Up and Awards

    Tweet There were many great stories and headlines following the two days of horse racing at Churchill Downs. As expected with many of the best horses worldwide competing against each other in Kentucky there would be many upsets. It didn’t take long for the upsets...

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