By Ed McNamara The first Saturday in May with no Kentucky Derby? That’s like the Fourth of July without the fireworks, Thanksgiving without the turkey or Christmas without the tree. We’ll have to ...
Handicapping for Oaklawn Park and Apple Blossom Handicap – By Ed McNamara How much should you spread, and where, in a multiple-race wager? It’s always a balancing act between “Don’t leave ...
By Ed McNamara While more buds, flowers and leaves appear each day, this season of rebirth remains all about regrets. The latest sign of this false spring: On Friday, Pimlico Race Course became a driv...
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo touched off the horror that was World War I. That afternoon in Paris, between the third and fourth races at Longchamp, an arm...
By Ed McNamara When writing about the distant past, a favorite phrase of historians is “We really don’t know.” Amid a worldwide pandemic, that also applies to the immediate future. All we know n...
With the Kentucky Derby postponed to Sept. 5 because of coronavirus, the upcoming 3-year-old stakes no longer can really be called Derby preps. Saturday’s Louisiana Derby, along with the Florida Der...
Kentucky Derby 2020: And you thought that last year’s Kentucky Derby was bizarre. Despite the confusion, controversy and anger over its first on-track disqualification, at least the race went off on...
Rebel Stakes Betting Odds: Derby Prep Preview His imposing physique and blueblood pedigree stamped him with star potential, and he’s named for a champion. The four-legged Nadal made an immediate imp...
Maximum Security Drug Allegations: With this horse, nothing is ever what it appears. For 22 minutes he was the Kentucky Derby champion, and then he wasn’t. On Monday, nine days after he won the rich...
By Ed McNamara A year ago, Jason Servis couldn’t have been doing better. He had just seen Maximum Security dominate the Florida Derby and become a hot item for the Kentucky Derby. A week later, Serv...
