Award-winning author Margaret Ransom continues her series of Stallion Stories, which occasionally focuses on geldings. Previous subjects in the series include Seattle Slew, Silver Charm, Grindstone, S...
By Ed McNamara Playing the horses is a game of the day, with races over in the time it takes to brush your teeth. The entire Triple Crown doesn’t even last 6 1/2 minutes, and a place in history ...
By Ed McNamara The Kentucky thoroughbred is revered throughout the world as a four-legged aristocrat. Horses who took their first steps in the Bluegrass State have won 112 of the 146 Kentucky Derbies ...
By Richard Rosenblatt After seven runner-up finishes in the Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1), including last year when his Vino Rosso was DQ’d from first to second, Hall of Fame shoo-in Todd Pletcher final...
By Ed McNamara The late, great Ed Comerford was the turf writer at Newsday when I started my 36-year career there in 1983, and I learned a lot from him. Besides being a wordsmith, Ed was a funny guy w...
By Mike Farrell Maximum Security concludes a tumultuous season Saturday in the $750,000 Cigar Mile (G1) at Aqueduct. You need a journey in the Wayback Machine — to the eras of Dancer’s Image a...
By Richard Rosenblatt Maximum Security may have his toughest race of the year when he takes on older horses for the first time as well as Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner Spun to Run in the $750,000 C...
By Jenny Kellner Sometimes a Cigar is more than just a Cigar. Such was the case with Allen Paulson’s inestimable racehorse, for whom Saturday’s 31st running of the Cigar Mile Handicap (G1) at Aque...
There’s a saying in racing that goes something like this: “Great milers make great stallions.” When it comes to the Cigar Mile Handicap (GI) at Aqueduct, it’s ironic that one of the most impor...
It’s been 20 years since Dubai Vice President and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum and his family announced they’d be hosting a $4 million race set at the classic distance ...
