REMARKS: The last deadline for nominating horses to this year's Triple Crown races is next Monday, and the owners of Rare Brick and Fobby Forbes have already paid their $3,000 fees.
REMARKS: In the paddock just minutes before Saturday's Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park, trainer Jimmy Croll and jockey Craig Perret were having more than the typical prerace conversation as they discussed the strategy to employ with Bet Twice.
REMARKS: With reservations, the three-man panel for the Triple Crown Ratings decided to list Capote
REMARKS: Alysheba, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness and a victory away from becoming the 12th Triple Crown champion, won't be the only starter in the Belmont Stakes on June 6 who scored his maiden victory at obscure Turfway Park near Cincinnati.
REMARKS: Gulch finished sixth, more than four lengths behind Alysheba, in the Kentucky Derby, but trainer LeRoy Jolley wants another chance in this Saturday's Preakness at Pimlico.
REMARKS: Some prominent jockeys don't have a mount for the Kentucky Derby, but Eddie Delahoussaye may have a choice of two horses.
REMARKS: The ratings underwent their biggest shuffle of the season, with two horses dropping out
REMARKS: Chris McCarron, who has never won a Kentucky Derby, seemed to have a good chance with three 3-year-olds this year, but all of them are injured and the jockey will have to go shopping for a mount.
Career Horse S 1 2 3 Earnings 1. Spend a Buck 13 9 2 2 $3,998,509 2.
& the Movies") line up ratings-wise against Rex & Bill ("At the Movies") and Jeffrey & Michael ("Sneak Previews").
REMARKS: When Alysheba's winning time in the Kentucky Derby--2:03 2/5, which is the slowest since Cannonade's 2:04 in 1974--was mentioned to a trainer, he said: "I'm sure Jack Van Berg didn't wake up Sunday morning and say to himself: 'Geez, I won the Kentucky Derby Saturday, but I wish my...
REMARKS: When Alysheba arrives at Belmont Park by van from Baltimore today, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner will be sent to barn 33 instead of the stakes barn, which is usually reserved for out-of-town horses running in the Belmont Stakes.
has narrowly kept the top spot in the final edition of this year's ratings.
Lisa Teasley's article about the movie ratings ("Film Ratings: Who Minds the Door?
The CBS miniseries about Robert Kennedy got off to a respectable start in the ratings Sunday, but
ratings for network morning programs, although by a narrow margin over ABC's "Good Morning America," according to A.C.
REMARKS: Vincent (Jimbo) Bracciale, who rode Broad Brush to victory in the Wood Memorial but finished third aboard the colt in Saturday's Kentucky Derby, has lost the mount to Chris McCarron for the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on May 17.
REMARKS: The other day, Charlie Whittingham, who trains Kentucky Derby winner Ferdinand, and Mel Stute, the conditioner of Preakness winner Snow Chief, met by chance in the Hollywood Park paddock.
REMARKS: A difference of opinion. It's what makes a horse race.
REMARKS: The only winner of the Kentucky Derby who didn't run as a 2-year-old was Apollo in 1882.