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Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview John Hancock: A big signature TRINITY, Fla. – John Hancock signed his first ticket on the 2025 Kentucky Derby trail with a hard-fought win over Owen Almighty in the Sam F. Davis on Feb. 8 at Tampa Bay Downs. The son of Constitution...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- TRINITY, Fla. – Citizen Bull, the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner and the 2-year-old Eclipse champion, started his sophomore season off with a bang taking the Robert B. Lewis on Feb. 1 at Santa Anita Park with ease....

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- Disco Time dances in Lecomte TRINITY, Fla. – Disco Time proved that he could go two turns in winning the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes at Fairgrounds on Jan. 18. A win is a win, but this one was just a short head over Built, the...

By Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- TRINITY, Fla. – It’s time to take an early look at the 3-year-olds that might be headed to the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs in Louisville. Through the kindness of Churchill Downs Inc., colts trained by...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- Sierra Leone; Hodges Photo TRINITY, Fla. – The 54th Annual Eclipse Awards Dinner will be held Jan. 23, 2024, at The Breakers in Palm Beach. Fla. As a member of the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters, one of the three...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview TRINITY, Fla. – The 156th Belmont Stakes will not be “The Test of Champions” this year, it will be just another mile-and-a-quarter race at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York. Because of the renovation work at Belmont Park the...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- TRINITY, Fla. – The 149th Preakness Stakes on May 18 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore drew only three contenders from the Kentucky Derby. Mystik Dan, Catching Freedom and Just Steel were the only ones to sign up the the...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- TRINITY, Fla. – The 150th Kentucky Derby will be run this year with an asterisk because several of the best 3-year-olds in the country won’t be in the race with the continued ban that Churchill Downs has placed on...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- TRINITY, Fla. – The last prep races for the 2024 Kentucky Derby were held on April 6 in New York, Kentucky and California. The Wood Memorial run at Aqueduct on Long Island could have been at Turf Paradise in Arizona...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview Ryan Thompson Photo TRINITY, Fla. – The “good” Fierceness showed up again in the Florida Derby on March 30 and the colt romped by more than 13 lengths to win in a nice time of 1:48.22 for the mile-and-an eighth race. The son of...