No horse breaking from the auxiliary starting gate, used for post positions 15 and beyond, had won the Derby. For every horse, someone will dig up some precedent for the horse to lose. Curlin, the morning-line favorite, can't win because he didn't race as a 2-year-old and is making only his fourth start. Gato Del Sol, a colt co-owned and co-bred by Arthur Hancock, was breaking from the 18th position in a field of 19 horses. Today's Derby, like most, is breeding historical perspective as...

Sunday, May 06, 2007 BY MATTHEW FUTTERMAN Star-Ledger Staff Everything anyone wants to know about horse racing in New Jersey can be found in a stall in Cream Ridge in Monmouth County, where a legendary colt named Windsong's Legacy can't get the mares the way he used to. With no slots to lure fans, up purses, don't bet on horse racing in Jersey. Sunday, May 06, 2007 BY MATTHEW FUTTERMAN Star-Ledger Staff Everything anyone wants to know about horse racing in New Jersey can be found in a...

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Borel - riding the favorite in the Kentucky Derby, which is something that might lead to impatience - held the horse back when he felt the pace was too quick. On the back side, however, along the barn rows where the horses are stabled and groomed, where the work begins early and never ends, there is a different side to the game. Calvin not only rides on the Louisiana, Kentucky and Arkansas circuits, but he works in the mornings exercising horses for his older brother, Cecil, a trainer who...

The rail birds will watch the post parade and know which Kentucky Derby hopefuls look ready, frisky and sufficiently lathered up. There has been much discussion in recent years of how thoroughbred racing has steadily been losing its appeal. The hardcore thoroughbred racing players will chew on the grist while the rest of the world basks in nostalgia. Ownership of the entries is split almost right down the middle between the old-school, family farms and a new generation of horse players....