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Former NHL player and Xpressbet racing analyst Eddie Olczyk joins this week's TDN Writers' Room to give his top picks going into the last few rounds of Derby prep races and to share his story on beating stage 3 colon cancer.

Niall Brennan is riding high heading into this week's Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale as this year, a pair of his program's graduates have developed into two of the hottest colts in training early on in the season with recent GI Dubai World Cup winner Mystic Guide and top Kentucky Derby contender Essential Quality. We spoke with Brennan on some of his top graduates and his consignment heading to the upcoming Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Sale. Read more on the TDN: https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/niall-brennan-stables-keeping-the-stars-coming/

Canterbury Park's Vice President Andrew Offerman joins this week's TDN Writers' Room to discuss creating both a fan and a horseplayer-friendly product at their Minnesota-based racetrack.

Greatest Honour (Tapit--Tiffany's Honour, by Street Cry {Ire}) has done everything perfectly in South Florida this winter. Coming off of three straight wins at Gulfstream Park, including the GIII Holy Bull S., and the GII Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth S., Greatest Honour is headed to the GI Curlin Florida Derby this weekend and likely to be the heavy favorite. In each of his last three victories, Greatest Honour has executed a confident late surge, mowing down his competition in the stretch. The extra sixteenth of a mile in the Florida...

Last year, Authentic earned Horse of the Year honors after winning both the GI Kentucky Derby and GI Breeders' Cup Classic. This February at Hurricane Place Farm in Kentucky, his full brother was foaled. We stopped in and visited the youngster who has some big shoes to fill.

After watching her husband, trainer Dan Blacker, enjoy his first Grade I victory last week with Hit the Road, racing analyst and TVG host Christina Blacker joined this week's TDN Writers' Room to talk on marketing racing to a wider audience.

LA Times Columnist John Cherwa joined this week's TDN Writers' Room podcast to talk on racing at Santa Anita, top sophomore Life Is Good and the recent protests at Golden Gate Field.

Trainer John Gosden joins this week's TDN Writers' Room fresh off a win in the Saudi Cup to talk on the newly-crowned Mishriff, relive his favorite moments with Enable and reminisce on his Californian training roots.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Pegasus World Cup and Breeders' Cup Mile winner Knicks Go (Paynter) will jump from gate five in Saturday's $20 million Saudi Cup, with key rival Charlatan (Speightstown) also drawn well in nine. Splitting the two in gate seven is Tacitus (Tapit), one of two horses in the 14-runner field to be starting in the world's richest race for the second time. Commenting on the first international runner for the Brad Cox stable, the trainer's assistant and Knicks Go's track rider Dustin Dugas, said, "We like it, it's right...

While 2020 has been a year of hardships for everyone in our industry, many people have said that the sport has come together in ways that it never has before. As we enter into the holiday season, we spoke with several people who helped make this year a little better. We asked them to reflect on the things that have been particularly difficult to deal with this year; what they have learned because of these struggles and what they hope our industry will take away from this year as we...

King Guillermo will be in a tough spot when he starts in the GI Cigar Mile H. at Aqueduct. The 3-year-old colt hasn't raced since May 2 and has never faced older horses. That's fine by his owner, retired MLB All-Star Victor Martinez. "I'm not a big believer in favorites," he said. That was the theme throughout his baseball career and helped him surpass the modest expectations when he was a skinny kid out of Venezuela who got a mere $8,000 signing bonus from the Cleveland Indians as a 17-year-old...

Top sophomore Art Collector has already given trainer Tom Drury and his team their first-ever graded stakes victory. Now they, along with owner Bruce Lunsford, await the first Saturday in September for their first entrant in the GI Kentucky Derby. After earning 100 points toward the Derby at Keeneland, it was initially uncertain if the son of Bernardini would see the starting gate again before the first Saturday in September. When Art Collector streaked past the rest of the field to win the Aug. 9 Runhappy Ellis Park Derby by...