Despite a tropical storm, a sloppy and sealed racetrack, a couple of front-runners came through with victories in $1 million races at Parx Racing. With Tropical Storm Ophelia leaving the track a slopp...
By Margaret Ransom A pair of Kentucky Derby point-qualifiers are on tap this weekend: the $200,000 Springboard Mile at Remington Park on Friday night, and the $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2) on Sa...
By Margaret Ransom Bob Baffert looks to continue his dominance of the Southern California juvenile scene as he seeks a third consecutive sweep of the Starlet and Los Alamitos Futurity on Saturday. The...
By US Racing Team Flurry Racing Stables’ Mr. Misunderstood will face off against nine top turf runners in defending his title in Saturday’s 42nd running of the $175,000 River City Stakes (G3) at ...
The Pennsylvania Derby has been accorded Grade I status for the first time in its 39-year history and the field assembled for Saturday’s Parx Racing feature appears worthy of the greater esteem. Wes...
During my first career as a commercial banker in Southern California, I had the great pleasure to finance a Santa Monica Mexican-food restaurant for a kind and colorful man. In the banking industry,...
With just seven horses signed up, it’s hard to imagine finding much in the way of wagering value in Saturday’s El Camino Real Derby. But with Sheer Flattery a dubious 7-5 morning line favorite, I ...
Kaleem Shah got his first stakes win with new trainer Doug O’Neill on Sunday as his lightly raced Iliad became a graded stakes winner with a 3 ½-length score in the $200,000 San Vicente Stakes (GII...
In 2007, the Santa Anita Derby (GI) prep once known as the Santa Catalina Stakes was renamed the Robert B. Lewis Stakes (GIII) to honor one of the most beloved owners in the game of thoroughbred racin...
With the richest California-bred (also North America’s richest racehorse), California Chrome, running clear across the country in the inaugural $12 million Pegasus World Cup in the Sunshine State of...
