Champion Classic Empire, fourth in the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby and second in the Grade 1 Preakness Stakes, is scheduled to begin his preparations for the final leg of the Triple Crown with a May 26 jog...
After the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes are in the books, New York’s Belmont Park again becomes the center of the racing universe thanks, in part, to the upcoming running of the third jewel of...
Some of the luster from Classic Empire’s victory in the Arkansas Derby was lost after speed figures for the 1 1/8-mile race, which was run in 1:48.93, came back with plenty left to be desired. Beyer...
John Oxley’s champion Classic Empire’s Road to the Roses hasn’t been as smooth as his connections planned when they accepted his Eclipse Award as 2016’s top 2-year-old in early January. The ba...
Since 2004, two Arkansas Derby (G1) winners (American Pharoah and Smarty Jones) and one runner-up (Super Saver) have gone on to wear the roses. Half a dozen more Arkansas Derby entrants have hit the b...
Isabelle de Tomaso’s New Jersey homebred Irish War Cry made his presence on the Triple Crown trail well known on Saturday with an impressive wire-to-wire score in the $350,000 Lambholm South Holy Bu...
On Saturday, races in California, New York and Florida will be run for Road-to-the-Kentucky-Derby points. The winners of each race will be awarded ten points in the fifth year of the newest qualificat...
On Saturday, a field of nine sophomores is expected to race 1 1/16 miles in the 32nd running of the Holy Bull Stakes (GII), a key prep race for the Fountain of Youth Stakes (GI), Florida Derby (GI) an...
To answer my own headline, yes. And, I guess, the question shouldn’t be can Irish War Cry win the Holy Bull Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream Park on Saturday, but will he win it? That’s a little harder t...
‘Twas the day after Christmas and all ‘cross the land Racing fans everywhere… rand… bland… tanned… Oh, forget it. A poet I am not. Suffice it to say that, after a light week of racing — ...
