Although the winner of the Vosburgh Stakes (GI), scheduled to be run for the 78th time on Saturday at Belmont Park, has gone on to win the Breeders’ Cup Sprint just once (Artax, 1999), the race has ...
It’s hard to believe it’s been nine years since the great Hall of Famer Zenyatta first won the race that would one day bear her name. Inaugurated in 1993 as the Lady’s Secret Stakes (GI) and ori...
The Pennsylvania Derby has been accorded Grade I status for the first time in its 39-year history and the field assembled for Saturday’s Parx Racing feature appears worthy of the greater esteem. Wes...
Parx Racing has put together a great card on Saturday, Sept. 23, highlighted by two Grade I races — the Cotillion for 3-year-old fillies and the Pennsylvania Derby for sophomores of any sex — offe...
Saturday’s Woodbine card is one that makes race fans salivate in anticipation, like Pavlov’s dogs at a recital of “Carol of the Bells”. The 13-race program features four graded stakes, includi...
Over the past five years, the winner of the Woodbine Mile has gone on to capture the Breeders’ Cup Mile twice. Granted, both times the name of the dual champion was Wise Dan, but I don’t think man...
Although it’s a Grade I race with a $300,000 purse, Saturday’s Northern Dancer Turf Stakes at Woodbine doesn’t have a rich history of producing Breeders’ Cup Turf champions. In fact, it has no...
There is a quote, attributed to the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, that goes: “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” Horse ...
As many racing fans know, Kentucky Downs is a very unique racetrack. To begin with, it was initially called “Dueling Grounds” in recognition of the duels that once took place on the premises (for ...
Ask any horse racing fan to list their favorite horses and they can probably rattle off half a dozen before catching a breath. Ask that same fan to list people in the game dealing with substance abuse...
