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November 1, 2011
The 15th Year.

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The Breeders' Cup

Once again, the Breeders' Cup will be held at Churchill Downs. I will be making selections, but only on Twitter as I will be traveling to Louisville, and will have limited computer access.

I will post the selections for Friday's races on Thursday evening, and Friday morning. Saturday's races should be posted Friday evening to Saturday morning. I will make limited comments throughout both days.

You can follow on Twitter by clicking the link above, or sign into your account and follow @Alydar61.

Enjoy the great racing everyone! The weather looks good...so far.

Barbaro Wins The 2006 Florida Derby

Tributes To Barbaro

Cindy Pierson Dulay's Barbaro Tribute

Debi Kral's Barbaro Gallery

The Heart In The Winner's Circle-Jane Smiley and The Wahington Post

Barbaro Cartoons

Pure Of Heart-NY Times Editorial

Undone By The Loss-Jay Cronley and ESPN

Following The Path-Bill Finley and ESPN

TODAY'S FEATURED COLUMNS

Animal Kingdom Won't Win Preakness Too-Ray Kerrison and The New York Post

A Long But Wonderful Journey-Kevin Van Valkenburg and The Baltimore Sun

A Colt That Gives Him Hope-Joe Drape and The New York Times

Miracle Fit For A King-Ray Kerrison and The New York Post

Preakness Crowns Champions-Ed Fountaine and The New York Post

Low Hanging Fruit-Paul Moran and ESPN

Countdown To The Crown April 15-Jeremy Plonk and ESPN

Don't Bet The House On This Old Kentucky Home-Jim Murray (1995) from The Los Angeles Times

Decadence Defined-Hunter Thompson and The Derby Post

Ode To The Derby-John Steinbeck and The Derby Post

Jim Murray Archive

More columns will be archived in The Columnists section.

Five Star Links

Seventy-nine life sized decorated horses were placed in and around Lexington, Kentucky. Check out some of these, on December 2, 2000 at Keeneland, they were auctioned off for various charities. My personal favorite: Fanta-Sea Horse.

The McChump® Tour gets better every year. See what the sport looks like from the perspective of one of it's BIGgest fans. Terry Bjork has logged thousands of miles at racetracks near and far. The stories are priceless, admission is free. Terry is currently running the Derby List Triple Crown handicapping suarez, and has pictures from a recent trip to Hialeah.

M y old buddy Greg Melikov moved to Texas, but he's still active in the game, and he has a new site up with columns, articles, links, etc. Check out Horsingaround.info . His horses to watch have been RED HOT lately.

Up Next

The Breeders' Cup

The Works

Check DRF.com for latest works.

The Past Analyses

2011 Races

The 137th Kentucky Derby The 136th Preakness The 143rd Belmont

The 142nd Travers Stakes

2007 Races

49th Donn Handicap The 61st Fountain Of Youth The 56th Florida Derby

The 133rd Kentucky Derby

The 132nd Preakness

2006 Races

The 2006 Aventura Stakes 2006 Sunshine Millions Turf

48th Donn Handicap 60th Fountain Of Youth

55th Florida Derby 132nd Kentucky Derby

131st Preakness The 137th Travers

2005 Races

The 130th Preakness

The 87th Jockey Club Gold Cup

2004 Races

21st Breeders' Cup

133rd Belmont

The 130th Kentucky Derby The The 129th Preakness

The 53rd Florida Derby

The 58th Fountain Of Youth

The 15th Holy Bull Stakes The 2nd Sunshine Millions Turf

The 46th Donn Handicap

2003 Races

The 57th Fountain Of Youth The 52nd Florida Derby

The 129th Kentucky Derby

The 128th Preakness

The 135th Belmont The 134th Travers Stakes

The 50th Woodward

The 85th Jockey Club Gold Cup

The 20th Breeders' Cup

2002 Races

The 19th Breeders' Cup

The 133rd Travers The Woodward

Holy Bull Stakes 44th Donn Handicap The 56th Fountain Of Youth

The 51st Florida Derby The 128th Kentucky Derby

The 127th Preakness The 134th Belmont

The 1997 BIG Analyses

The 1998 BIG Analyses

The 1999 BIG Analyses

The 2000 and 2001 Analyses

The Assistance

Icapper.com has many useful articles by Joe Takach on physical handicapping.

T he Tomlinson Numbers are now provided in the Racing Form. With that in mind, don't forget about Belmont Day 2000. The Tomlinson numbers struck again. In the Belmont no less, the endurance ratings singled out the top 4 finishers in the race. That's a $9315 superfecta, a $1310 trifecta, and a $213 exacta. What are you waiting for???

Thorograph.Com contains Jerry Brown's performance figures. Available for download and contains full explanation. A nice tool for decoding form cycles.

Progressive Handicapping, Home of "Crushing The Cup"
Jim Mazur's excellent insights for major meets and The Breeders' Cup.

The Derby List

Last 200 Messages

6 Month Archive

@Derby pin design by Susan Ladmer

The Columnists

Skip Away walked away with Horse Of The Year in February 1999.
Here are some decent columns on the Champion.

Goodbye From Chicago-Ray Hallet
Ray picked the ponies in The Chicago Daily-Herald for 21 years.

Enlisting Mary Poppins-Vic Zeigel and The New York Daily News

The Power Of Payson Park-Greg Melikov and The Stuart (Fl) News

The Unsung Hero-Jay Hovdey and The Racing Form

Twenty Years From Camelot-John Crittenden and The Palm Beach Post

DeSpirito Lives-Paul Daley and The Lowell (Ma) Sun

Time Skips Away-Vic Zeigel and The New York Daily News

In Love With A Great Horse-Maryjean Wall and The Lexington Herald-Leader

Baffert And The Buffet Line-Vic Zeigel and The New York Daily News

Silver Or No, Skippy's #1-Bill Finley and The New York Daily News

Two Statues, Two Winners-Greg Melikov and The Stuart (Fl) News

A Couple Of Stories For Jim-Paul Daley and The Lowell (Ma.) Sun

Selected Archived Columns

Jim Murray Archive

The Los Angeles Times columnist who passed away in August of 98 was one of a kind. Here are some of his best and last columns. NOTE: THE LA Times monkeyed with his archive. Please bear with me while I search for it. However, there are still columns archived at this link.

The Tube
All times Eastern.

Wire To Wire Tuesdays ESPN2 2pm

Wire To Wire Saturdays ESPN 5:30am

All Times Eastern

The Elements

Extended Forecasts For Selected Tracks

The Miscellany

The Arlington-Las Vegas Trip Report from the Summer of 2000 will supply a mildly interesting insight to my first visit to Arlington, and a return jaunt to the always enchanting Las Vegas.

The 97 Breeders' Cup Chronicle
My 97 Breeders' Cup weekend adventure. Complete with over 30 pictures.

Forego's Career Past Performances
The file is large so be patient. It's worth the wait!

Thanks to Greg Melikov and The Stuart (Fl.) News for the write-up in the 6/1/97 Sports, page B3.

My 1930 Kentucky Derby Program

Thanks to the Palm Beach Post for the mention in Sunday 3/30/97 Sports page 2.

Brad's BIG Race Analysis Del Mar Edition

The Pictures