The footprint in the shedrow of a young boy literally following in the footsteps of his father provides insight into the life of someone who would pursue and realize his dreams. Those footsteps are le...
Los Pollos Hermanos and Jay Em Ess Stable’s Grade 1 winner Masochistic, who was retired on Sunday after finishing in front of just one rival in the Sensational Star Stakes for California-breds at Sa...
I spend a lot of time in my car for work. After all, not everyone can make a living playing the races. Not only for my regular commute, but my schedule often includes two or three meetings or site vis...
As most everybody knows by now, jockey Dylan Davis won the first five races and six races total at Aqueduct on Sunday. The six wins tied a New York Racing Association Record and not a single one of th...
Tibetan and Buddhist history remembers the sixth-century horse Kanthaka as “a favorite horse of length eighteen cubits (27 feet) who was a royal servant of Prince Siddhartha.” Legend has it that b...
I have a good Facebook friend who can’t stand certain morning-line makers. It’s not that he’s got anything personal against them, mind you. His beef is strictly professional: he’s fed up with ...
Author’s Note: The following is an update of a story I wrote on Jan. 3, 2015. I was at Longacres, the scenic racetrack once located in Renton, Washington, when a horse named Hilco Scamper made ...
With so little good racing taking place in January and February at so few tracks, it becomes relatively easy during the winter months to keep close tabs on the races and results from just about every ...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by a record 1,175.21 points on Monday, prompting widespread panic among the usually serene and thoughtful users of Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) and Twitter Inc (...
A western Canadian sunset, with the silhouette of a young girl on a horse, riding until the sun could no longer be seen and her parents beckoned her to come inside, perfectly captures what was a routi...
