Today marks the 158th running of the Queen’s Plate at Woodbine, the most prestigious race for sophomores contested north of the border and also the race with the longest consecutively run streak in ...
This year marks the 61st running of the historic Mother Goose Stakes (GII) — the first time it’ll be run as anything other than a Grade 1 since grades were first assigned to races in 1974. The 1 1...
The other Group 2 on the Wednesday Royal Ascot card is the one-mile Duke of Cambridge Stakes (GII), the name changed from the Windsor Forest Stakes in honor of Prince William, the current Duke of Camb...
A field of 24 juvenile fillies is expected for the five-furlong Queen Mary Stakes (GII), a race named in honor of the British Queen Mary, best known as the consort of King George V and the grandmother...
In Not All Favorites Are Created Equal – Part 1, I discussed the difference between strong and false favorites. I also introduced the concept of the qualifier, or a horse that shows most of the crit...
It’s finally that time of year. Summer stakes season has arrived in harness racing just as summer will in the coming weeks. It’s both North America Cup time and, more importantly, shaming-our-coll...
Here we are again ready to start the next lap of this stakes-season merry-go-round. We are coming off of a particularly good week with last week, which could only make our performance this week appear...
After the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes are in the books, New York’s Belmont Park again becomes the center of the racing universe thanks, in part, to the upcoming running of the third jewel of...
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Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes of all time. In the 1912 Olympic Decathlon he placed in the top four in all 10 events and scored 8,413 points — a record that stood for nearly two decades...
