If you told me a year ago that I would eventually come to respect and admire millionaire Gunnevera as a racehorse, I wouldn’t have believed you. I didn’t notice him until the winter of the 2017 Ke...
A long time ago, I read a handicapping book — for the life of me, I can’t remember the title — that made the point that previous stakes winners had a huge advantage in added-money races. And whi...
If nothing else, Tuesday’s San Antonio Stakes at Santa Anita Park gave bettors a reason to trot out the oft-repeated phrase: “That’s the reason they run the races on the track and not on paper.â...
For a race expected to answer so many questions about next month’s $16 million Pegasus World Cup (GI) and who the legit contenders from the west would be, Tuesday’s San Antonio Handicap (GII) resu...
Traditionally, Santa Anita’s San Antonio Stakes (GII) had served as a prep race for the track’s signature event, the Santa Anita Handicap (GI), which is contested every year in early March. For de...
The Gulfstream Park winter meet begins with the Claiming Crown, continues with the Sunshine Millions and includes several key 3-year-old prep races leading up to the Florida Derby (G1). Oh, and along ...
Juddmonte Farms’ Dubai World Cup (GI) winner Arrogate arrived safely back at trainer Bob Baffert’s Santa Anita Park base on Saturday after a 20,000-mile round trip to the Middle East and 48 hours ...
Since the first running of the Dubai World Cup (GI) and Cigar’s amazing victory at Nad Al Sheba in 1996, some really talented American-based horses have taken their best shot in the great “Duel in...
As I said previously, without the Pegasus World Cup and the vision of Frank Stronach and the rest of the Stronach Group, we never would have seen Arrogate and California Chrome square off again. Calif...
One of the greatest horses in the world won the first-ever Pegasus World Cup; Gulfstream Park set an all-time single-day handle record ($40.217 million); and the buzz among racing fans was more intens...
