For a race expected to answer so many questions about next month’s $16 million Pegasus World Cup (GI) and who the legit contenders from the west would be, Tuesday’s San Antonio Handicap (GII) resu...
I have been as critical of racing stewards as anybody over the years. I think it is a travesty that a position originally designed to ensure that bettors were protected is now almost exclusively fille...
For much of the year, the Horse of the Year debate was no debate at all. It was Arrogate and everybody else. After a scintillating performance in the Dubai World Cup, Bob Baffert’s stable star was t...
When Juddmonte Farm’s Arrogate heads postward for the final time in Saturday’s $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (GI) at Del Mar, he will do so as the richest horse to ever grace thoroughbred rac...
The FrontRunner Stakes (G1) often serves as the first major test in Southern California in determining whether a 2-year-old colt can handle a route of ground in hopes of progressing on to the Kentucky...
Over the past 10 years, just three fillies have won both the Del Mar Debutante (G1) and the Chandelier Stakes (G1) — Songbird, Executiveprivilege and Stardom Bound. In this year’s edition of Santa...
It’s hard to believe it’s been nine years since the great Hall of Famer Zenyatta first won the race that would one day bear her name. Inaugurated in 1993 as the Lady’s Secret Stakes (GI) and ori...
The Pennsylvania Derby has been accorded Grade I status for the first time in its 39-year history and the field assembled for Saturday’s Parx Racing feature appears worthy of the greater esteem. Wes...
Monday’s $300,000 Del Mar Futurity (GI) marks closing day of the prestigious summer racing season at Del Mar and, before getting out of town and heading back North, nine juveniles will square off ov...
Gary and Mary West’s West Coast took the East by storm on Saturday, posting an impressive victory by 3 ¼ lengths in the $1.25 million NYRA Bets Travers Stakes (GI) at Saratoga. The bay son of Flatt...
