Whatever it is you do, it is usually best to do it on the big stage. If you are a theater performer, then Broadway is where I’d imagine you want to be. If you are a film actor or actress, then I gue...
Editor’s Note: This is an update of an article I wrote several years ago. For years the chorus has been building: Today’s Thoroughbred is simply not as stout or robust as it was in years past....
American Cleopatra Dazzles in Debut Zayat Stables homebred American Cleopatra, a full sister to Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, made her highly anticipated debut a winning one on Sunday by captu...
Surviving a jockey objection, Exaggerator won his third Grade I of the season in the Haskell Invitational (G1), giving his sire (Curlin) his fourth stakes winner of the weekend. Many questioned the de...
A field of nine will go postward in Sunday’s $300,000 Bing Crosby Stakes (GI), Del Mar’s signature race for sprinters named after the famous old Hollywood singer who was a race horse owner and bre...
A stellar wind is defined as “a flow of gas ejected from the upper atmosphere of a star. It is distinguished from the bipolar outflows characteristic of young stars by being less collimated, a...
A year ago, Spendthrift Farm’s multiple champion Beholder used her victory in Del Mar’s Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (GI) as a springboard to her first meeting with her male counterparts in the Pacif...
Native New Yorker Buck Grottano makes his US Racing radio debut! Along with co-host Travis Hembd, Buck chats with multiple graded stakes-winning jockey Jose Ortiz, who recently notched his 1,000th ca...
Nothing can top a Triple Crown winner racing in your signature race, but drawing the top three Kentucky Derby finishers comes pretty darn close. That is exactly what Monmouth Park has managed to do. L...
One day in late June, thoroughbred racing fan Joyce Berk was doing her usual online perusal of news involving her favorite sport when she came across a story about a herd of horses abandoned on a Merc...