The 2026 Breeders' Cup drew a record 255 pre-entries representing 222 individual horses, including 79 international contenders, for the World Championships at Keeneland on October 30-31. Within 48 hours of the pre-entries being released, the first defections arrived, and several also-eligibles are n...
Bob Baffert’s horses don’t stay long at the Jersey Shore, but when they show up for the $1 million Haskell Stakes (G1) at Monmouth Park the trainer is usually in for a big payday. The Hall of Famer has saddled nine Haskell winners, six runners-up, and has collected hefty bonus money from the tra...
Jack Knowlton and his merry band of yellow bus riders, better known as Sackatoga Stable, had the time of their lives 20 years ago when their New York-bred gelding Funny Cide took them on one of coolest quests for a Triple Crown in history. Trained by the curmudgeonly but lovable Barclay Tagg, and ri...
*Originally published in 2017, published again today in memory of Funny Cide, who passed away at his home at the Kentucky Horse Park on July 16, joining Wes Lanter, who died in December of 2o22. We honor both Wes and Funny Cide with this memory. Fourteen years ago, a humble New York-bred gelding nam...
*Originally published in 2017, published again today in memory of Funny Cide, who passed away at his home at the Kentucky Horse Park on July 16, joining Wes Lanter, who died in December of 2o22. We honor both Wes and Funny Cide with this memory. Fourteen years ago, a humble New York-bred gelding nam...
For the second year in a row, it was trainer Chad Brown’s longest shot of his four entries that came through in the $500,000 Diana (G1) at Saratoga on Saturday. With four of the five starters in the field for the 1 1/8-mile race for older fillies and mares on turf, Whitebeam at 7-1 nosed […...
Let’s just call this the $500,000 ‘Betting Chad’ Diana Stakes. As usual, trainer Chad Brown will saddle most of the field in the Grade 1 Diana for older fillies and mares going 1 1/8 miles on the turf Saturday at Saratoga. Five horses are entered, four of them trained by Brown, who has won the...
Here’s an example of what can happen on any given day during the summer season at Saratoga Race Course: On July 24, 2017, in the day’s first race, a horse appropriately named Perplexed left bettors dumbfounded when he took the lead by the eighth pole and won a $30,000 maiden claimer – at odds ...
Once the Saratoga summer season opens on Thursday (July 13), those fortunate enough to pass through the iconic entranceway to the historic track will straightaway encounter not only cool breezeways, decades-old stairways, special events almost every day, giveaways, runaway (winners) and, after Openi...
How did How Did He Do That do it? Well, the $300,000 Iowa Derby finished up something like this: One in Vermillion held the lead in the stretch, How Did He Do It pulled even just outside of One in Vermillion, and Heroic Move rallied to catch the leaders. The finish was a nail-biter, and […]...
On the penultimate day of the Belmont Park fall/summer meet, a pair of Grade 1s produced a big payoff in the $500,000 Belmont Oaks Invitational (G1) and a predictable finish in the $750,000 Belmont Derby Invitational (G1). In the 1 ¼-mile Oaks on Saturday (July 8), 15-1 longshot Aspen Grove ($33.40...
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