A year ago, Spendthrift Farm’s multiple champion Beholder used her victory in Del Mar’s Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (GI) as a springboard to her first meeting with her male counterparts in the Pacif...
Native New Yorker Buck Grottano makes his US Racing radio debut! Along with co-host Travis Hembd, Buck chats with multiple graded stakes-winning jockey Jose Ortiz, who recently notched his 1,000th ca...
Owner-trainer Carlo Vaccarezza said Friday that he has retired his four-time Grade 1 winner Little Mike, who will live out the remainder of his days at Old Friends Farm in Kentucky
Nothing can top a Triple Crown winner racing in your signature race, but drawing the top three Kentucky Derby finishers comes pretty darn close. That is exactly what Monmouth Park has managed to do. L...
One day in late June, thoroughbred racing fan Joyce Berk was doing her usual online perusal of news involving her favorite sport when she came across a story about a herd of horses abandoned on a Merc...
The Jim Dandy has long served as a prep race for the Midsummer Derby, the Traver’s Stakes. Being that it is run over the same track (Saratoga) as the Travers, it may come as a surprise that the Jim ...
The first of the invaders, Gun Runner, has arrived at Monmouth Park for Sunday’s Haskell Invitational. Gun Runner comes into the Haskell after an impressively sharp win in the Matt Winn Stakes at Ch...
We all live busy lives and have day jobs and families that need our attention. If being a licensed engineer has taught me one thing, it is that having and knowing how to use the right references wil...
The William Hill Haskell Invitational has become a key race for the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Over the last two years, the Haskell Invitational has provided the Breeders’ Cup with not only competitiv...
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – While the connections of Exaggerator continue to mull over whether to run in Saturday’s Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga, the connections of other 3-year-olds finalize...
