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>>> Beyer: A closer look at IEAH... "The most intriguing question of all... is whether it can possibly make a profit."
>>> Comment: Safer tracks? They're already here -- "Why don't we add this natural turf option to our arsenal in the fight to increase the safety of our racehorses?"
>>> Trainer Nick Zito points to resurfaced Oaklawn as a safer dirt track
>>> White: Lower the weight scale for Triple Crown races
>>> Deford: More and more, sport --especially in the United States -- is reduced to speed and power
>>> Weekend preview: 20,000 expected for 78th Radnor Hunt Cup in Pennsylvania
>>> It's different over there: French racing values stamina over speed
>>> Jerardi: When the sport changed from a racing game to a buying and selling game controlled by operations that breed to sell, it changed for the worst
>>> Gallup poll: 38% support banning animal racing
>>> RMTC strives for uniform drug testing
>>> Vet Larry Bramlage interview: "What we're seeing is a less durable athlete with potentially more ability and a lesser degree of soundness."
>>> Sports Illustrated/Layden: "It's deeply important that the sport put itself back on the public stage again, and quickly."
>>> New Thoroughbred Safety Committee sets schedule... Plans recommendations by August
>>> Forde: "In recent years, fillies who have tried the Triple Crown -- or the spring prep races leading up to it -- have tended to pay a heavy price."

Native Dancer to blame?:
>>> Wall Street Journal: Most racehorses today descend from a stallion named Native Dancer. Has the sport become too reliant on one set of genes?
>>> Balt Sun: "There's just no reason to think the flaws go back to Native Dancer."

Nick Zito addresses media regarding track surfaces
>>> VIDEO: Nick Zito addresses media regarding track surfaces [look for 'Zito on dirt vs artificial tracks' link on video menu]

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Big Brown will leave from #7

2007 Preakness post positions and morning line odds
Post.. Horse... Jockey... ML
1 Macho Again Leparoux 20-1
2 Tres Borrachos Baze 30-1
3 Icabad Crane Rose 30-1
4 Yankee Bravo Solis 15-1
5 Behindatthebar Flores 10-1
6 Racecar Rhapsody Albarado 30-1
7 Big Brown Desormeaux 1-2
Post.. Horse... Jockey... ML
8 Kentucky Bear Theriot 15-1
9 Stevil Velazquez 30-1
10 Riley Tucker Prado 30-1
11 Giant Moon Dominguez 30-1
12 Gayego Smith 8-1
13 Hey Byrn Lopez 20-1
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Thursday news:

>>> Finley: Big Brown will win the Preakness, not the Belmont
>>> Full field steps up, "I think it's good for [Big Brown] to be tested again." [article includes chart showing Preakness results for other undefeated Derby winners]
>>> Pimlico, Preakness share rich, colorful history
>>> Boston Globe: Desormeaux is riding high... After years of ups and downs, jockey is sitting pretty atop Derby champ
>>> Kerrison: Preakness is "a bettor's nightmare with a couple of solid favorites and a gate load of underachievers at boxcar prices."
>>> AP: Preakness always unpredictable
>>> Toast to a 'beer-money horse'... Tres Borrachos goes for Preakness glory

Wednesday news:

>>> Gayego steps up
>>> Kerrison: Fig-maker warns that Big Brown set to regress
>>> Haskin's Preakness Report: Target Brown
>>> Davidowitz: The level and the depth of competition however is not Big Brown's biggest obstacle. The number one concern is his history of hoof problems
>>> Zito on Stevil: "I think my horse will put in a great performance."
>>> Preakness infield: "It's like Mardi Gras without the floats."
>>> Jeremy Rose looking forward to Preakness shot on Ichabad Crane
>>> Dutrow's NY Post Preakness Diary/Wed: "We might use different tactics than we did in the Derby."
>>> Preakness notes from Tuesday
>>> Cutting-edge care, team commitment helps Big Brown overcome quarter cracks

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Wed results: Wake Up Maggies tops $65K Long Beach

DOWN UNDER/ASIA
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Gai Waterhouse gets fined but escapes suspension in steriod probe


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GENERAL NEWS
Look back: Owner of Gate Dancer recalls '84 Preakness, "He was just the bad kid on the block."

NBC's Preakness coverage to include panel discussion putting sport under the microscope

Prairie Meadows' racing product gets closer scrutiny... Board member to dir of racing and racing secretary, "How do I hold you accountable as to whether you're doing a good job or not?"

Churchill purse cuts start today... Horsemen, track battle over wagers

NY Times: Barbaro's unraced 2YO brother -- His every start, even his every move, will be followed and scrutinized, and the expectations will be tremendous

Japanese Triple Crown competitors: This moment has been in the making for quite some time

AP: Durability vs. speed in horse racing industry

Profile: After 2,000 wins, Churchill-based trainer Tom Amoss can be confident that he made the right career decision

Paulick: Big Brown vs Big Red? Don't make me laugh

Profile: Jockey Jamie Theriot happy in his new Ky home, "I always wanted to be here, and I'm glad I came."

Magna to release MJC prez Dragone after Preakness

Q&A with ESPN's Kenny Mayne: "I'm only going to be at the Triple Crown races, the Breeders' Cup and maybe one or two prep races... they decided... that I was a little too wild for the general audience."

Suspended trainer Biancone tries to stop hearing into alleged violation of suspension agreement

USA Today: The five best Preakness Stakes I've attended...

Light-hearted: Derby vs Preakness... Which has the better song, better celebs attending, etc?...

Teri 'Desperate Housewives' Hatcher: Hits the 'ALL' button for a profit!

History: A look back at the Inaugural Pimlico Special, 1937

DRF: 20YO jock Gabriel Saez -- Shaken, young star retains his focus

Jockey Edgar Prado on Eight Belles' and racing: "I would love to see it devise a single set of rules, in effect nationwide, governing the use of medication and overall treatment and care of horses."

Barbaro -- in bronze: Statue is bound for Churchill Downs

Slots as savior: Delaware considers expanding gaming options -- although gov opposed

Hoosier Park casino opening nears

Indiana extends steroid reprieve

CHRB releases new threshold levels for steroid testing


Storm Cat pensioned at 25

Ad Age: Crisis-management PR firm's VP says racing needs to beat PETA to the punch by launching an ad campaign "demonstrating the care and loving way" these horses are treated featuring lawmakers, regulators and high-profile people with an affinity for the sport

Beyer: "Until the industry faces the medication issue seriously, all of its efforts to address equine safety will be misguided."

NY Times: Big Brown is perfect. His trainer, Rick Dutrow, admittedly is not... "I'm no role model."

VIDEO: Larry Jones and Rick Porter on Fox's 'Your World with Neil Cavuto'... Proceeded by Cavuto talking with PETA rep: Cavuto, "You value the horse more than the jockey?"... PETA: "I don't care about the future of that jockey, no."

Aussie newspaper: Eight Belles causing self-examination Down Under as well... Oz breeder, "Maybe there should be an international forum to address this before we find ourselves in an irreversible situation. Maybe we've created a recipe for disaster."

NY: Task force seeking input on future of retired race horses

>>> Zast: Ying and yang for horse-racing over next two weeks -- "Big Brown conquered his competition with amazing alacrity in the one race that everyone watches," and "...there are two more nationally-televised events that pose the direst of possibilities."

Record books: Aussie jock perhaps a week or so away from breaking a long-standing Australian record for the number of winning rides [Oz record is 3322 -- by comparison, Russell Baze has over 10,000 wins]

Big Brown eschewed 'blanket of roses' after the Derby

History: Blogger recommends 1972 Sports Illustrated article on Bee Bee Bee's Preakness upset

Husband-wife make successful jockey-agent team... Took over hubby's book in '95 -- She had never been an agent and "everybody laughed -- all the other agents and even the riders." But that year, he was the leading rider at the local track

Oy!... This is what we're up against... Mississippi sports editor [Arnold] concludes that, "Eight Belles was a filly racing against colts, on a track that is different from many other tracks because it uses real dirt. That is simply too many intangibles for a horse." [Uh, article includes email address if anyone wants to let the writer know that all of Eight Belles' previous start had been on "real dirt"]

"It's sad to see it go"... Bay Meadows done.
...And more from the San Fran Chronicle: "Without a doubt, this is a sad day in horse racing."
VIDEO: Local ABC affiliate covers closing day

Cronley: Welcome to heaven. Heaven was the second race at Mountaineer the other night

John Mooney hired as consultant for Del Park

Fen Phen lawyers -- and Curlin part-owners -- head to trial

Russell Baze ends his Bay Meadows reign with a win, "Change is inevitable but not always for the better. I'll miss it."

Belmont/Aqueduct
Naughty New Yorker named NY-bred HOTY

EUROPE
Thurs results: Tartan Bearer upsets G2 Dante at York... Twice Over 3rd

Denman claims HOTY honours at Anglo-Irish Jump Racing Awards in London on Mon


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