
Billy Clyde G-whiz-pee is gone. It's all over but the crying...and the contract litigation.
Now it's time for all Kentucky fans to lick their wounds, get down and dirty -- or down and polytrack-y -- and become one with the racing form. After all, we can't dwell on basketball seasons past when the Kentucky Derby is quickly approaching.
Yep, the Dogwoods are blooming at Keeneland, which means at Churchill, the buds are on the roses, and all over Kentucky, the ladies are shopping for hats and heels to wear for the greatest two minutes in sports. In my effort to watch every last basketball game in the NCAA tournament, I've admittedly not tuned in to every Thoroughbred race, stakes or otherwise, this past week. A few things happened, though, that caught my eye.
Nicanor, the full brother to the much-beloved but ill-fated 2006 Derby winner Barbaro, ran second in a one mile race at Gulfstream on Saturday to Glittermans Cartel, who

The only newcomer on my list this week is a horse with another name that I love. Theregoesjojo is out of a Seattle Slew mare, the unraced Slewie Blues (this is her first foal to race). Theregoesjojo

Quality Road's determination won out in the end, as the son of Elusive Quality edged out Dunkirk in the final furlong.
Quality Road now has three wins, and one second place finish in four starts, an
We shall see.
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