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Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview Malagacy; Oaklawn/Coady Photography Trainer Todd Pletcher pulled off a Bob Baffert trick by taking a relatively inexperienced colt to the Rebel Stakes in Hot Springs, Ark., and he won. Baffert also sent a colt to the Rebel, American...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- Mastery easily won the battle in the Grade 2 San Felipe on March 11 at Santa Anita Park in Southern California but he lost the Kentucky Derby war when he was pulled up with a condylar fracture in his left front leg. Trainer Bob...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview The best 3-year-old in the country did run on March 4, but it wasn’t in the Gotham at Aqueduct or the Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream Park and she’s not a colt. Unique Bella won the Grade 3 Santa Ysabel at Santa Anita Park in Southern...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- An out-of-town shipper and a previous local winner didn’t stand a chance on Feb. 25 in the Risen Star at Fair Grounds in New Orleans when Girvin charged home to win the Grade 2 mile-and-a-sixteenth Kentucky Derby prep over a...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview One Line leads Southwest field home; All Photos provided by Oaklawn/Coady The Grade 3 Southwest Stakes on Feb. 20 at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., threw a monkey wrench into one 3-year-old’s Kentucky Derby chances and gave a big...

By Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview McCraken shown winning the Grade II Kentucky Jockey Club; All Photos Provided by Coady Photography Finally we saw a 3-year-old carry his form through from his Juvenile season when McCraken set a track record (1:42.45) in the Grade 3...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview—- Breeders’ Cup Juvenile champion and Eclipse Award winner Classic Empire started his 3-year-old campaign very impressively finishing a dull third in the Grade 2 Holy Bull on Feb. 4 at Gulfstream Park in South Florida. The son of...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview—- We’ve now had four points’ races in 2017 on the road to the Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May and all of them have been run on sloppy racetracks. That still may not give one a good idea how the colts will go over a dry...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- Gormley; Zoe Metz Photography We’ve had the first two points’ races of 2017 for the road to the Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May. Both of those races, the Jerome at Aqueduct in New York on Jan. 2 and the Sham on Jan....

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview Mastery; All Photos by Benoit Mastery won the last points’ race in 2016 for the 2017 Kentucky Derby by taking the Los Alamitos Cash Call Futurity in Southern California on Dec. 10. In the process he picked up 10 points for the win, with...