PORTER ON PEDIGREES, by Alan Porter The travails of War Emblem's stud career in Japan have been fairly well documented. Less realized, however, is that the results from his few representative ...

War Emblem Set the Pace, Won the Race. By Andrew Beyer. May 5, 2002 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. LOUISVILLE -- Just as generals are always fighting the last war, jockeys frequently ride the last race.

War Emblem went wire to wire in winning the Derby by four lengths over Proud Citizen, then took the Preakness by three-quarters of a length over 45-1 shot Magic Weisner.

After War Emblem won the Derby on May 4, Audrey and Allen Murray, who own Murmur Farm in Darlington, Md., said they received a written offer of $4.5 million for Our Emblem.

When War Emblem took his brief lead, the crowd roared in anticipation of a Triple Crown champion after a 24-year wait. But the ornery colt had no fight left, and faded to eighth, eased past the ...

War Emblem's Road Gets Tougher. May 5, 2002. By Andrew Beyer. LOUISVILLE, May 5 -- The first-, second- and fourth-place finishers in the Kentucky Derby are bound for the Preakness, where they may ...

War Emblem’s final crop to date is made up of five 2-year-olds of 2008, four colts and a filly. Nine-year-old War Emblem (Our Emblem--Sweetest Lady, by Lord At War) won the 2002 Kentucky Derby ...

Thoroughbred trainer Bob Baffert, whose horses won the Kentucky Derby in 1997 and '98, didn't have a steed good enough to enter this year's Run for the Roses. Neither did Russell Reineman, a ...