It’s the Holy Grail of thoroughbred racing, and victory in Churchill Downs’ classic on the first Saturday in May is revered as the ultimate triumph. For many horses it launches a Hall of Fame care...
Once, as I reclined on an easy chair, sipping a Michelob Ultra (gotta watch the carbs), with a copy of the Daily Racing Form spread out on my lap, I was asked to explain what I was doing. Smiling, I t...
Always Dreaming, who won the Kentucky Derby, and Cloud Computing, who shocked that one in the Preakness Stakes, will settle the score — at least for the time being — in the Jim Dandy Stakes at Sar...
As expected, both Grade 1 Kentucky Derby champion Always Dreaming and Grade 1 Preakness States winner Cloud Computing were removed from consideration for the June 10 Grade 1 Belmont Stakes. Always Dre...
Grade 1 Preakness Stakes winner Cloud Computing exited the race in good order and was vanned back to Chad Brown’s Belmont Park barn following his victory. Brown said that he would wait a week to eva...
Grade 1 $1,500,000 Preakness Pan Stakes Pimlico, May 20 Chad Brown (trainer, Cloud Computing, 1st) “It’s unbelievable. A lot of teamwork. It couldn’t happen to greater clients than Seth Klarma...
During the springtime, Kentucky Derby (GI) fever is a real affliction. Ask anyone involved in racing. The connections of a handful of horses do their respective Derby points dances, say prayers to the...
Today, a field of ten 3-year-olds, including the reigning Kentucky Derby (GI) winner, will race 1 3/16 miles in the 142nd running of the Preakness Stakes (GI), well known as the second jewel to the co...
Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes of all time. In the 1912 Olympic Decathlon he placed in the top four in all 10 events and scored 8,413 points — a record that stood for nearly two decades...
Following a 2017 Kentucky Derby that lacked a clear-cut favorite going in, but featured a potential superstar coming out in the form of impressive winner Always Dreaming, the Preakness Stakes has draw...
