Run over Aqueduct’s main track, the $250,000 Withers Stakes (G3) is one of the oldest stakes for 3-year-olds in the country. The race was named New York businessman, horse owner and breeder, and one...
Pegasus World Cup Invitational By Richard Rosenblatt Maximum Security, the disqualified Kentucky Derby first-place finisher, Santa Anita Derby winner Roadster and Santa Anita Handicap winner Gift Box ...
By Margaret Ransom If not for the great Secretariat, Sigmond Summer and Claiborne Farms’ Sham would have been the best 2-year-old of 1972 and best 3-year-old of 1973, thanks to his impressive Califo...
By Ed McNamara Trying to pick winners is tricky enough, and when making selections before race day, a major unpredictable factor comes into play: the weather. Not even checking the forecast protects y...
One of the strangest unsolved cases in thoroughbred racing gets colder every year, more than 70 years after Citation’s original jockey went missing. Television could make something of this one: thre...
By Ed McNamara I couldn’t have been in better shape. I’d hit the first two legs of Gulfstream Park’s pick 5 and was alive to five horses in the next race. After just connecting for an $11 winner...
By Ed McNamara The late, great Ed Comerford was the turf writer at Newsday when I started my 36-year career there in 1983, and I learned a lot from him. Besides being a wordsmith, Ed was a funny guy w...
Grants Pass Downs wrapped a safe and successful inaugural commercial race meet on Nov. 4, drawing horsemen and fans from across the west to Southern Oregon Grants Pass, Ore. – Dec. 2, 2019 – Grant...
By Jenny Kellner Sometimes a Cigar is more than just a Cigar. Such was the case with Allen Paulson’s inestimable racehorse, for whom Saturday’s 31st running of the Cigar Mile Handicap (G1) at Aque...
By Margaret Ransom Assistant Trainer Learns True Meaning of Thanksgiving Assistant trainer Carlos Santamaria has a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving after receiving a life-saving kidney transpl...