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For Ryder Finney, Memorial Day weekend serves as the unofficial start of sales prep season. Early mornings of bringing in the yearlings, lengthy handwalking sessions under the hot summer sun and tedious hours monitoring the walker. It's his favorite time of year. While Finney is hard at work as the Bloodstock Specialist at Bluewater Sales, Army Wife, a filly he picked out as a 2-year-old that won this year's GII Black-Eyed Susan S. is in training with Mike Maker to continue what is already a successful sophomore season.

Anthony Trimarchi, the managing director of JPMorgan Private Bank and the managing partner is Four Corners Racing Stable, joined this week's TDN Writers' Room to share how he got involved in the racing industry and what he's learned as a new owner in the sport.

Fresh off his first-ever Classic victory in last weekend's GI Preakness S., trainer Michael McCarthy joined this week's TDN Writers' Room to talk on his newly-crowned Grade I winner Rombauer.

Joe Trawitzki is a trainer's dream.  As an owner, he takes the bad news with the good, he always puts the horse first and of course, he shows up at the barn with two dozen doughnuts in tow. But while Joe is eagerly anticipating the debut of his 2-year-old filly this year, he's not sure if he will have the opportunity to see her reach the starting gate. Last May, Joe was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Although he was given six months to live, he is now working hard one...

Leeper A Derby Hopeful

Christina Bossinakis takes us through the sights and sounds at Pimlico on the Thursday before the GI Preakness Stakes.

Thoroughbred People with Henry Field

THA Chairman and CEO Alan Foreman joined this week's TDN Writers' Room in wake of Medina Spirit's failed drug test in the GI Kentucky Derby.

The BCTC Equine program first started in 2006 as the North American Racing Academy. But when former amateur jockey and National HBPA CEO Remi Bellocq joined the team in 2011, they realized their need to widen its scope from a jockey school to an equine-based career and technical training program. Now, the program is the first and only accredited community college-based program of it's type in the country. Today, there are between 35 and 40 students in the program each semester. After spending two years completing courses ranging from basic...

For all the round-the-clock pedigree scrutiny and conformation analysis that goes into finding a stallion that will produce a winner on the first Saturday in May, it took a horse standing for $5,000 and lacking that coveted Grade I win on their race record to get the job done. Of the 26 fifth-year stallions standing in Kentucky today, Protonico was one of five to breed less than 20 mares last year. And yet, here he is now sitting atop the Leading Second-Crop Sires list after his son Medina Spirit charged...

Fresh off a Derby-Oaks double, Eclipse Award-winning jockey John Velazquez joined this week's Writers' Room to talk on his rides aboard Malathaat and Medina Spirit and share his experiences as a leading jockey and respected mentor.

NBC racing analyst Randy Moss joins this week's TDN Writers' Room to give his Kentucky Derby picks and talk on the future of horseplayer data.