by Margaret Ransom Triple Crown hopefuls in Louisiana make their first steps down the famous trail toward the Kentucky Derby (GI) on Saturday with the $200,000 LeComte Stakes (GIII) at Fair Grounds i...
by Noel Michaels The first Kentucky Derby (G1) prep races of the season are already in the books and, now, with a small gap until the next round of prep races heats up, it seems like a good time to re...
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 California-based march to...
Although the Remsen Stakes (G2) hasn’t produced a Kentucky Derby winner since Thunder Gulch in 1995, the annual feature for two-year-olds has certainly generated more than its fair share of good hor...
The long, cold winter at Aqueduct will formally begin after the “official” sign goes up for Saturday’s running of the Cigar Mile — the last graded stakes race to be run in New York this calend...
In between e-mails informing me that I “may already have won” a prize of considerable value and those beseeching me to be “a better lover” (my wife claims she’s only trying to help), I often...
On Friday, Nov. 2, Bob Baffert returned to the Breeders’ Cup at Churchill Downs with another big, flashy chestnut colt. Making only his second start, the two-year-old Improbable made short work of a...
Fans took the news that Triple Crown winner Justify would be retired way too well, in my opinion. Not that this news was unexpected. As soon as word first broke on July 10 that Justify had swelling in...
Justify, who became the 13th Triple Crown winner when he captured the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes on June 9 at Belmont Park, is scheduled to return to Churchill Downs Barn 33 on the afternoon of June 11 an...
There was a good reason why there were only 12. Since Sir Barton in 1919 became the first winner of the three races now known as horse racing’s Triple Crown — the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Sta...
