Champion Essential Quality, left, edged Highly Motivated, right, to win the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes April 3 at Keeneland in what was the fastest race in the final stages on the 2021 Kentucky Derby trail. (Coady Photography)
It’s that time of year again! Spring has arrived, the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve is just 2 1/2 weeks away, and we’re ready to dig into some deep data to find the next winner of the run for the roses.
The Kentucky Derby is a handicapping challenge unlike any other. It’s the only race in North America where bettors must choose between 20 lightly-raced 3-year-old Thoroughbreds traveling 1 1/4 miles, a distance few (if any) have tackled in the past.
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Pierre Peb Bellocq at Keeneland, where much of his work has been displayed
Renowned Eclipse Award-winning cartoonist Pierre “Peb” Bellocq and the late Eclipse Award-winning writer William Leggett have been selected to the National Museum of Racing s Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor.
Bellocq, 94, was born in France in 1926. At age 19, the French racing journal France Courses gave him national exposure by publishing one of his cartoons of a jockey. Bellocq signed the drawing as “Peb,” a signature that became his lifelong moniker.
By 1954, Bellocq s work had achieved international acclaim and he was contracted by Laurel Park owner John D. Schapiro to do drawings for the prestigious Washington, D.C. International Stakes. Bellocq decided to relocate to the United States and in 1955 accepted an offer to work as the staff cartoonist for the Morning Telegraph and its sister paper, the Daily Racing Form, a job he held until December 2008. Early in this care
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