By Ed McNamara Bobby Frankel was a hard-edged guy who didn’t hand out compliments casually. So when he touted an obscure young rider from the Dominican Republic, jockey agent Ron Anderson paid a...
By Margaret Ransom A talent-filled opening day program on Saturday at Santa Anita Park will help usher out a year of horse racing that has been unpredictable, turbulent and downright implausible, and ...
This week, Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens announced his final retirement from the saddle, after a relatively minor post-parade accident injured his neck so substantially that his doctors said even t...
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...
A stellar wind is defined as “a flow of gas ejected from the upper atmosphere of a star. It is distinguished from the bipolar outflows characteristic of young stars by being less collimated, a...
If one could create a “perfect storm” of a Kentucky Derby horse, there are five or six main components needed to come together at the same time to make a big score. My contention is that, this yea...
This Saturday will provide horseplayers with plenty of exciting stakes racing. In addition to the three big Kentucky Derby prep races — the Wood Memorial, the Bluegrass Stakes and the Santa Anita De...
