By Ray Wallin After 30 plus years of playing the races, I am convinced that handicapping is alchemy. Alchemy is as old as the ages. In Ancient Greek times the great philosophers like Aristotle and Pla...
Margaret Ransom, an award-winning writer who has worked in the horse racing industry for decades, recently moved from California to Texas and started The Bridge Sanctuary. Its mission is to bridge the...
By Mike Farrell There is an old quotation, often attributed to Damon Runyon, that best summarized the major developments in the racing world last Saturday. “The race is not always to the swift, nor ...
By John Furgele On a day where front end speed wasn’t holding up, Captain Corey bucked the trend and dominated the field in the $1 million Hambletonian at the Meadowlands. Driven and trained by Ake ...
By Richard Rosenblatt It was all Knicks Go in the $1 million Whitney Stakes (G1) at Saratoga on Saturday as he seized the lead from start and won going away by 4 ½ lengths against a foursome of formi...
By Ed McNamara The improbable journey began long ago in Laredo, a dusty Texas town on the Mexican border. For the Asmussen clan it’s always been about grinding relentlessly, rising before the su...
By Margaret Ransom The $200,000 Best Pal Stakes (G2) at Del Mar on Saturday is the first graded stakes of the year for 2-year-olds racing in Southern California, — a race named for the Californi...
By Richard Rosenblatt There’s a little something for every kind of horseplayer on Saturday, from a 1 ½-mile turf marathon at Saratoga to the $500,000 West Virginia Derby (G3) to a pair of Grade 2�...
By Margaret Ransom The $200,000 Yellow Ribbon (G2) at Del Mar on Saturday is a rarity in racing these days, one of the few races remaining in North America contested under handicap conditions. A field...
By Ed McNamara They’ve been running the Grade 1 Whitney Stakes since 1928, and so many great horses have won it — War Admiral, Kelso, Dr. Fager, Alydar, Easy Goer, to name only a few. Yet ...
