The world’s richest horse race is just days away. The field for the inaugural Pegasus World Cup is set, at least on paper. The draw is complete and added a little extra drama and intrigue to a race ...
I’ve always resisted making Kentucky Derby “watch lists.” Mostly, because such lists are usually about as insightful as a guy I met at a bus stop outside of my local racetrack many years ago. He...
Though the California Derby at Golden Gate Fields doesn’t offer any points toward making the gate for the Kentucky Derby (GI), it has served as a prep for the El Camino Real Derby (GIII), as well as...
Of all the roads to the winner’s circle at Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May, the one that begins in the great state of Louisiana this weekend may be (but definitely wasn’t) what inspir...
No one could have predicted what happened at Aqueduct on the afternoon of Jan. 18, 2013. Poised to receive his third consecutive Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey the following day, Ramon Dominguez...
Uncontested has been made the 2-1 morning line favorite in Monday’s featured Smarty Jones Stakes at Oaklawn Park, which kicked off its 2017 season on Friday. The one-mile race is Oaklawn’s f...
On Saturday, the Grade I, $1 million Cotillion Stakes for three-year-old fillies will be run at Parx Casino and Racing at a mile and a sixteenth. Despite the fact that it is the only Grade I on the Pa...
The other Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” race on the Woodbine Card Saturday is the $300,000 Canadian Stakes (GIIT), a nine-furlong event that drew an international cast of seven looking for...
Big props to the racing office team at Woodbine, led by racing secretary Stuart Slagle, for Saturday’s awesome 12-race Woodbine Mile (GIT) Day card, which includes four graded stakes and a supportin...
The $200,000 John C. Mabee Stakes (GIIT), named for three-time Eclipse Award-winning breeder John Mabee, drew a field of 12 distaffers for the 1 1/8-mile event on Sunday at Del Mar. Mabee owned the re...
