By Richard Rosenblatt No questions about this finish! Essential Quality made a powerful move on the far turn and defeated a determined Keepmeinmind to win the $600,000 Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) at Saratog...
By US Racing Team Will Steve Asmussen make history this weekend? The Hall of Famer won two races Friday to move within six victories of tying the late Dale Baird for the record for a North American th...
By Margaret Ransom A trio of talented distaffers led by slight favorite Shedaresthedevil is set for Sunday’s $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch (G1) at Del Mar, with the winner earning an expenses-paid bert...
By Richard Rosenblatt For those who can’t be at Saratoga Race Course for Saturday’s $600,000 Jim Dandy Stakes (G2), you may want to tune into Fox Sports’ FS2 a little after 5:30 p.m. ET. A few m...
By Margaret Ransom California’s road to the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) gets underway on Saturday with the $300,000 Bing Crosby Stakes (G1) at Del Mar, a BC “Win & You’re In” event. C Z Ro...
By Ed McNamara The late, great Woody Stephens loved to talk and was always worth listening to. One of Woody’s pearls of wisdom has stuck with me for a long time. Whenever an odds-on favorite los...
By Noel Michaels The Saratoga meet is off and running and along with the best horses and top trainers, it’s no surprise that there’s a collection of many of the best jockeys in the country. Where ...
By Ray Wallin In the past, I have shared some great videos of horseplayers behaving badly or being a bit over the top in cheering their horses to victory. But how does man’s best friend feel about h...
The Hambletonian, harness racing’s most visible race is less than two weeks away, so it seems like a good time to look at yesterday, today and tomorrow in the world of trotters and pacers. What we s...
Jimmy Jerkens is a New York guy, through and through. Like his late Hall of Fame father Allen Jerkens, his heart and soul are in New York racing, especially Saratoga. So, it comes as no surprise that ...
