By Richard Rosenblatt The Fountain of Youth. The San Felipe. The Gotham. The John Battaglia Memorial. And much, much more. A huge dose of stakes races featuring four Kentucky Derby preps, three Kentuc...
By Mike Farrell Handicappers sometimes feel lost in a fog. Saturday was one of those blurry days where horseplayers were dazed and confused by the two biggest events: the $20 million Saudi Cup (G1) an...
Jimmy Jerkens is a New York guy, through and through. Like his late Hall of Fame father Allen Jerkens, his heart and soul are in New York racing, especially Saratoga. So, it comes as no surprise that ...
By Noel Michaels The first Kentucky Derby prep races of the season, including the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1), are in the books. And with a small gap from now until the next round of prep races (the...
For the past few months, Albaugh Family Stable’s J Boys Echo had been knocking at the door belonging to the club of contenders for this year’s Kentucky Derby (GI) and, on Saturday, he finally burs...
Shagaf entered Aqueduct’s Gotham Stakes unbeaten and he maintained that status afterwards, earning his first graded stakes victory in the process. After waiting patiently for a path to open up, jock...
Songbird Romps… Again Every now and again a horse turns in a performance that makes one’s hair stand on end. Goosebumps. Tears of emotion. A performance that seems to make everything wrong in the ...
By Casey Laughter Since 1976, no horse has won the Gotham Stakes and gone on to win the Kentucky Derby. There have been plenty of successful racehorses to come out of the race, however. Horses such as...
By Margaret Ransom Is Songbird a ‘Lock’ in the Santa Ysabel? Growing up, my father had an expression when people did things he didn’t understand. He’d say, “God bless ‘em,” and shrug his...
