Back in the day, the Wood Memorial Stakes (GI) at Aqueduct was a shining beacon for Triple Crown-bound horses. A total of 11 Derby winners prepped for the Run for the Roses via the New York and Wood M...
Ten will head postward in the 80th running of the Santa Anita Derby (GI), which will go off at 6:30 EDT as the afternoon’s eighth race at Santa Anita Park on Saturday. For some strange reason, conve...
An overflow field of 16 runners was entered for Saturday’s $1 million Blue Grass Stakes (GI) at Keeneland, the last main prep in the state for the Kentucky Derby (GI) down the road at Churchill Down...
The definition of champion, according to Mirriam-Webster is: someone or something (such as a team or an animal) that has won a contest or competition, especially in sports. After Saturday’s $1 milli...
Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s Oscar Nominated stamped his ticked to the Kentucky Derby (GI) in five weeks with an impressive just-off-the-pace victory in Saturday’s $500,000 Spiral Stakes (GIII) at Turfw...
Saturday marks the day all of racing has been waiting for. The great matchup of champion Nyquist and up-and-comer Mohaymen is actually happening. It’s not really a David vs. Goliath, Apollo Creed vs...
For some reason, the Spiral Stakes (GII) has somewhat become the Kentucky Derby’s evil red-headed step child as far as preps are concerned. In recent years it seems like it’s taken a back seat to ...
The nine-furlong Skip Away Stakes (GIII), named for 1998’s Horse of the Year, drew a compact but talented field of six older handicap runners who will race the nine furlongs in search of the winnerâ...
With all the best in the division either waiting for the Kentucky Oaks (GI) or their last preps for the first Friday in May set to be contested over the next two weeks, a decent field of seven sophomo...
Before Saturday’s $1 million Louisiana Derby (GII) Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Gun Runner had done everything a good horse on the Triple Crown trail could do to earn respect. He’d won three of his f...