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Dullahan, with big strides down the center of the racetrack, ran down champion Hansen in the late stages to win the $750,000 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes by 1 1/4 lengths April 14 at Keeneland. Kent Desormeaux guided the son of Even the Score for trainer Dale Romans. He is owned...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Dullahan and his team stayed in the background all week while the attention centered on the near white colt Hansen and his eccentric owner. "This is the first chance I've had a chance to say much,'' Donegal Racing managing partner Jerry Crawford said. "We decided all...

The Mariano Rivera of Kentucky Derby contenders is obviously Dullahan. The three-year-old Colt displayed the ability to close and finish like an elite athlete in other sports. Hansen looked to be in control for the duration, until the horses moved into the last quarter of the race. At that point,...

LOUISVILLE – Thoroughbred trainer Dale Romans stands inside his office at Barn 4 at Churchill Downs and contemplates what winning the Kentucky Derby would mean. "I was born 3 miles from here," he said. The son of the late Jerry Romans, who oversaw the same barn but never sniffed the...

ALL-WEATHER specialist Dullahan (Dale Romans/Kent Desormeaux) threw his hat into the Kentucky Derby ring when closing from well off the pace to run down Breeders' Cup winner Hansen in the Blue Grass Stakes. A half-brother to shock 2009 Derby winner Mine That Bird, Dullahan has a similar running style - with...

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Dullahan stamped himself as one of the favorites for the 138th Kentucky Derby and put himself in the record books by rolling past favored Hansen to win the 88th running of the Grade 1, $750,000 Blue Grass Stakes on a warm Saturday afternoon at Keeneland. With Kent...

The prerace hype on Saturday's $750,000 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes riveted on champion Hansen - including: Would the ethereal light gray have a blue tail or not? Trainer Dale Romans didn't have the white horse. But he thought he had the right horse. That would be Dullahan, the strapping chestnut...

The Keeneland sales pavilion, which saw the April 2-year-olds in training sale generate more than $9.7 million in gross receipts Monday evening, isn't quite done this week of hosting events that showcase the top end of the Thoroughbred industry. Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/04/10/2146343/blue-grass-stakes-drawing-big.html#storylink=cpy One could argue the most prominent is...

Dullahan carved brisk fractions at Keeneland’s synthetic surface ahead of the Blue Grass Stakes The only victory Dale Romans trained 3-year-old colt, Dullahan, has landed in his career was at Keeneland’s synthetic surface in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity where at about 1 1/16 miles under jockey K. Desormeaux, Dullahan...

With two big-money preps left Saturday, the graded-earnings threshold to make the May 5 Kentucky Derby is a good bet to be a record. The cutoff for No. 20 - the maximum that can start in the Derby - currently stands between $220,000 and $270,000 among Triple Crown-eligible horses. The...