Correll’s Corner

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- I saw a couple of colts in the UAE Derby on March 25 in Dubai that may grow on me by the time the first Saturday in May rolls along at Churchill Downs. There was a great stretch battle between Thunder Snow and Epicharis, which...

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...