Keeneland Website Rules

- The Keeneland website is full of helpful information (including live race coverage and clocker's workout comments)....if you actually take the time to delve through it. So thanks much to reader Hawken for pointing out this page, which contains links to videos of some of the morning works we've been reading about. That includes Circular Quay and Rags to Riches working in company, the workout by Cobalt Blue that received mixed reviews at best, and the work by Any Given Saturday that Haskin raved about the other day. Personally, I wasn't as blown away by the latter as Haskin, but that's why it's good for everyone to see for themselves and make up their own minds.

While Haskin wasn't quite as impressed by Curlin as Clocker-1 (or as accounts by other witnesses that I've been informed of), he totally flipped out over the one by Street Sense. Summing up, he writes: This may sound like someone getting a bit carried away, but you had to be there. If you’re watching Derby works for two weeks, this is what you’re hoping to see. [Bloodhorse]

Of course, it's important for us to remember that the race will be run on the afternoon of May 5, not in the morning at Keeneland or Churchill. I distinctly recall that Bandini was the consensus training star in 2005, and he didn't run a lick in the Derby. Whatsmore, these are all nice horses, and most of them are going to look good in the morning. As reader PapaChach (who obviously hasn't read the LATG rules prohibiting any commenter from being funnier than me) hilariously points out, we won't be reading many negative reports on works over the next ten days.

- As Keeneland giveth, others taketh away. TrackNet Media is withholding Magna's video archive from certain outlets pending contract negotiations (though not Cal Racing, shhhh). And Churchill Downs, which is by far the stingiest major racing company when it comes to race replays, has now withdrawn the video archive from the Fair Grounds site, thank you very, very much.