It has been since 1978 that Affirmed won the last American Triple Crown, although several colts have come close in the interim. Every year, there is conversation about in some way modifying the Triple Crown races. On one side are people who believe that distances and/or timing between races need to be changed. On the [...]

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Kentucky Derby 136 did quite well on television and in betting handle. Following is a synopsis: KD136 had a TV rating of 9.8 and a 23 share of audience. This means that 9.8% of the 114.9 million TV households in the United States were tuned into the Derby, or about 11.3 million households. Further, of [...]

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Sixty years ago, on May 6, 1950, the King Ranch colt Middleground won the 76th Kentucky Derby at odds of 7.90-to-1 and paid $17.80. He beat the favorite, Hill Prince, owned by Christopher T. Chenery of Virginia and ridden by the incomparable Eddie Arcaro.  The King Ranch sprawls over 825,000 acres in South Texas between Corpus Christi [...]

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