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Big-Race Showdown: Expert Selections for 2024 Kentucky Oaks, Kentucky Derby

For the eighth year in a row, America’s Best Racing is challenging some of the brightest minds in horse betting to come up with their top three picks for key races every weekend leading up to the 2024 Triple Crown and then continuing through the 2024 Breeders’ Cup World Championships. The handicappers face off in what we like to call the “Big-Race Showdown.”

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Final Pre-Derby Triple Crown Poll Results: Sierra Leone, Fierceness Rank 1-2

Each week, members of the national media vote on the nation's top contenders on the Triple Crown trail in the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) Top Thoroughbred Poll.

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Byron King’s Derby Dozen for May 1

BloodHorse news editor Byron King presents his final Derby Dozen with a look at his leading contenders for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve on May 4.

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On the Rise: First-Time Kentucky Derby Jockey Antonio Fresu

Jockey Antonio Fresu will ride in his first Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve this year when he gets a leg up from trainer Phil D’Amato – also a first-time participant in the run for the roses – on Stronghold, the winner of the April 6

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One Year Later, Dornoch Has Chance to Join Sibling Mage as a Kentucky Derby Winner

Longtime Thoroughbred owner/breeder Robert Clay is awed to see Dornoch earn a place in the starting gate of this year’s Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve and also realistic about the colt’s chances to buck 149 years of Derby history.

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