Saturday’s $600,000 Stephen Foster Stakes (GII) at Churchill Downs marks the last major stakes at the Louisville oval for the spring meeting and the first time the nine-furlong feature for the older...
by Margaret Ransom With the fiasco known as the 2019 Kentucky Derby in the far off distance in just about every racing fan’s rear-view mirror, and the dust now settling on the nearly incident-free P...
by Margaret Ransom This year marks the 46th anniversary of the great Secretariat’s record-breaking performance in the 1973 Belmont Stakes, a race that earned the flashy red son of Bold Ruler his Tri...
by Margaret Ransom The California Equine Retirement Foundation (CERF), the second-ever OTTB retirement facility in the United States when founded in 1986 and once known as the gold standard for OTTB a...
by Margaret Ransom For the past five months, like just about everyone else whose life and livelihood is entrenched in horse racing, I have watched horses at Santa Anita in California die in record num...
by Margaret Ransom While much has been said about this year’s Preakness Stakes (GI) not drawing the Kentucky Derby (GI) winner for the first time in 23 years, this year also marks the first time in ...
by Margaret Ransom I admit I was completely on board with the Kentucky Derby disqualification. I don’t think I had any better reason than, in my gut, I felt like Maximum Security’s altered course ...
by Margaret Ransom Every year after the dust settles on the Kentucky Derby (GI), racing fans turn their heads east and focus on Baltimore and the Preakness Stakes (GI) where those left standing after ...
Michael House’s Grade 1 winner Hunt has been retired and the gelding will likely take up duties as a jumper for the owner’s 7-year-old grandson, Gabriel. The gray Irish-bred son of Dark Angel, who...
by Margaret Ransom Following are some stats for all of the likely starters for Kentucky Derby 145, including post position statistics, Derby records for each trainer, owner and jockey, as well as sign...
