It’s hard to believe that this year’s Breeders’ Cup, the 33rd renewal of Racing’s Championship Day set for Nov. 4 and 5 at Santa Anita, is just more than six weeks away. Many runners looking t...
There are two fevers I am aware of that you actually want to catch. If there was a vaccine to prevent either one, I imagine the line to get it would be rather short. Of course, Derby Fever season star...
Tepin will make her long-awaited return to the track today in the Grade I Woodbine Mile. Often referred to as one of the top races in Canada, the Woodbine Mile is an important stepping stone race to...
A top-notch group of eight older runners are set to race 12 furlongs in the $300,000 Northern Dancer Turf Stakes (GIT). Wake Forest, who is one of the two Chad Brown-trained runners, won the Man o’ ...
The other Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” race on the Woodbine Card Saturday is the $300,000 Canadian Stakes (GIIT), a nine-furlong event that drew an international cast of seven looking for...
Big props to the racing office team at Woodbine, led by racing secretary Stuart Slagle, for Saturday’s awesome 12-race Woodbine Mile (GIT) Day card, which includes four graded stakes and a supportin...
Although all three are pointed to separate races to prepare for the Breeders’ Cup Longines Turf at Santa Anita in November, Postponed, Flintshire, and Mondialiste are the major contenders for the 1-...
There is an old saying that goes: “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.” It is very true in our great game of skill — the greatest skill gambling game in the world, in m...
With his win aboard Da Big Hoss in Saturday’s Grade III Calumet Farm Kentucky Turf Cup, jockey Florent Geroux has notched twenty-three graded stakes victories in 2016. It was his fiftieth career gra...
The use of designated pacesetters, or “rabbits,” in horse racing has a long history. It’s been part of the Sport of Kings for a long time. It reminds me of the line from the movie “Days of Thu...
