The following is based on a true story, because it is a true story. I turned 18 back in July, so, needless to say, I do not have much time left. So, I decided bet my future rent money on the ponies, a...
The 2017 National Football League (regular) season is nearly upon us. On Thursday, Sept. 7, the New England Patriots, come-from-behind winners of Super Bowl LI, will host the Kansas City Chiefs, the t...
If you were able to catch the Messenger Stakes elimination race last Saturday, you saw two races. One was Downbytheseaside racing the clock, the other was for second place and the accompanying $10,000...
As Hurricane Harvey, officially graded a Category Four super storm when it made landfall on Friday, strengthened its stranglehold on the Houston area over the weekend and produced flooding of biblical...
Gary and Mary West’s West Coast took the East by storm on Saturday, posting an impressive victory by 3 ¼ lengths in the $1.25 million NYRA Bets Travers Stakes (GI) at Saratoga. The bay son of Flatt...
The last two runnings of the Sword Dancer Stakes (G1) were won by the former European star Flintshire; this year, Idaho and Erupt will try to add their names to the list of overseas shippers that have...
In the 33 years since the creation of the Breeders’ Cup, only two winners of the Forego Stakes (G1) have gone on to Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) victories (Orientate in 2002 and Midnight Lute in 2007...
Saturday’s Saratoga race card features seven graded stakes events — six of them Grade I — and two Eclipse Award-winning champion horses on display in Songbird, who will compete in the Personal E...
Yonkers Raceway will host both the Yonkers Trot and the Messenger Stakes on its famed half-mile track on Saturday, Sept. 2. Both are second legs of the trotting and pacing Triple Crown and both have $...
This is Part III of the Holy Bull Story. Parts I & II appear below. Redemption in His Return Holy Bull was off the Classic trail, but that didn’t mean, he was going to take an extended respite f...
