By Richard Rosenblatt In Europe, top-flight fillies and mares take on the fellas on a regular basis (Enable, Magical of late). Not so in North America, where there are more than enough races to keep t...
By Richard Rosenblatt Bob Baffert’s merry pranksters, Authentic and Thousand Words, posted workouts at Churchill Downs on Saturday, and the trainer pronounced both 3-year-olds colts are in fine form...
By Richard Rosenblatt This much we know: The Preakness isn’t until next month, and there won’t be a Triple Crown attempt that would carry an asterisk in this year of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a...
By Richard Rosenblatt The storyline was just about the same in every one of the stakes races at Kentucky Downs on a soggy Saturday: $4.80, $5.80, $5.60, $13.60, and $8. You get the drift. Favorites wo...
By Richard Rosenblatt If you love turf races, you’re probably well aware this weekend will be a bettor’s paradise, with Breeders’ Cup berths on the line in Kentucky and Europe. Toss in a few sta...
By Richard Rosenblatt Flavien Prat by one; Irad Ortiz, Jr. by one. From Del Mar to Saratoga, the summer season ended on Labor Day (Sept. 7), and the race for leading jockey at each meet went down to t...
By Richard Rosenblatt Bob Baffert showed up for his first Kentucky Derby (G1) in 1996 with a horse named Cavonnier, winner of the Santa Anita Derby four weeks earlier and given a solid chance to compe...
By Richard Rosenblatt Moments after one of his horses was scratched from the $3 million Kentucky Derby (G1), a tearful Bob Baffert was on his way to winner’s circle after his other entry, Authentic,...
By Richard Rosenblatt Standing in the winner’s circle at Saratoga, jotting down notes during the trophy presentation for the 2019 Funny Cide Stakes, a race for 2-year-olds named for the New York-bre...
September 3rd, 2020 – And the field for the 146th Kentucky Derby is down to 17 By Richard Rosenblatt King Guillermo, a live long shot at 20-1 who hasn’t run in four months, is out of the Derby...
