By Margaret Ransom Spiced Perfection, a multiple Grade 1 winner and likely California-bred Horse of the Year, headlines a field of eight distaffers for Saturday’s $200,000 La Canada Stakes (G3) at S...
By Mike Farrell A Thread of Blue is clearly a horse for the course with a perfect 3-for-3 mark over the Gulfstream Park lawn. The 4-year-old will put that local unbeaten mark on the line Saturday as t...
By Ed McNamara You hear it every year late in autumn and early in winter: “That’s my Derby horse.” A colt runs lights out in his first or second start, and suddenly he’s The Next Big Thing. I ...
By Ray Wallin You are a good handicapper. In fact, you are a great handicapper. Yet you still don’t make any money at the track. You need a nudge. I’m not talking about the old Monty Python skit �...
By Noel Michaels Racing at The Big A has moved to a reduced winter schedule, which will be in place through March, as turf racing and most of the meaningful stakes will be absent from the Aqueduct men...
By Richard Rosenblatt Turf training wizard Chad Brown could have as many as three starters in the $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf (G1) at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 25 after invitations were extended o...
By Noel Michaels Winter racing season is in full swing as Aqueduct heads into the new year, and several trainers have already begun to distinguish themselves at the meet, which officially began for th...
By US Racing Team Buck Thornburg, a popular jockey who rode more than 3,400 winners over nearly four decades, has died, his family said on Monday. Thornburg, who won the 1980 Florida Derby (G1) and Wo...
By Ray Wallin At some point in your life I’m sure you have all heard the proverb, “you reap what you sow.” I know I heard it endlessly from my grandmother when I was growing up. I bet she never ...
By US Racing Team The partnership of Courant Inc., which campaigned 3-year-old trotting stars Greenshoe, Gimpanzee and Green Manalishi S, and conditioner Marcus Melander have been voted Owner of the Y...
