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2024 Kentucky Derby Prospect Profiles: Catching Freedom

Welcome to 2024 Kentucky Derby Prospect Profiles, where we’ll take a look each week at a recent winner on the Triple Crown trail, usually from the Road to the Kentucky Derby prep series that offers qualifying points for the first leg of the series. The 1 ¼-mile Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve will be held May 4, 2024, at Churchill Downs.

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Godolphin Leading Owner for Third Straight Year, Ortiz Jr. Leads Jockeys, Cox Tops Trainers

Godolphin LLC, which campaigned 15 North American graded stakes winners, including two Breeders’ Cup winners, repeated as leading owner by earnings, and Irad Ortiz Jr., again established a single-season earnings record as the leading jockey according to final statistics released today by Equibase Co., the Thoroughbred industry’s official database for racing inform

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Picking Winners: How Andy Beyer Revolutionized Betting on Horse Racing

If there was a Mount Rushmore for horse racing handicappers, it’s an odds-on proposition that the first face on it would belong to Andy Beyer.

Some people may have won more money wagering on the races than Beyer, but no other person has enjoyed as profound and prolonged of an impact on the art of handicapping as the 80-year-old graduate of Harvard University.

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Catching Freedom Rallies to Win Smarty Jones Stakes

Albaugh Family Stables kicked off the 2024 season for 3-year-olds the right way Jan. 1 by taking the $300,000 Smarty Jones Stakes at Oaklawn Park with Catching Freedom, who became a stakes winner in his stakes debut.

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BloodHorse Year in Review Survey: Industry Panel Discusses the Racing Calendar and Field Size

To discuss several of the important issues facing the sport as a new year approaches, BloodHorse has assembled a panel of about 30 industry participants to participate in the 2023 Year-End Survey where they can provide their thoughts on six key topics.

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