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...
It is February, regarded as the worst sports month of the year. The Super Bowl has been played and, this year, there is a diversion with the Olympics, but that only happens every four years. In short,...
Don’t Tell My Wife Stables and Monomoy Stables LLC’s My Boy Jack went from turf horse to Kentucky Derby (GI) contender with a perfectly timed rail-skimming trip to win the $500,000 Southwest Stake...
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...
Monday marks the 53rd running of the Southwest Stakes (GIII) at Oaklawn Park, the traditional prep for the Rebel Stakes (GII) in a month and also the Arkansas Derby (GI) in April. Though only Smarty J...
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...
Calumet Farm’s homebred Bravazo earned his first career graded stakes score and 50 points toward making the gate for the Kentucky Derby with a nose victory in the $400,000 Risen Star Stakes (GII) at...
The 19th annual NTRA National Horseplayers Championship (NHC) is in the books and the winner of the three-day event at Treasure Island resort in Las Vegas was Chris Littlemore of Ontario, Canada, who ...
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 ...
When you think of harness racing, Hawthorne Racecourse doesn’t roll off the tongue. In fact, when I think of Hawthorne, I think Illinois Derby, the 1 1/8 mile thoroughbred race in late April that of...
