By Derek Simon Provided that Saturday’s turf contests at Aqueduct stay on the green, there’s a strong possibility that the sixth and seventh races will be heavily influenced, if not entirely influ...
Host Derek Simon of www.usracing.com discusses drugs in thoroughbred horse racing as well as Dallas wide receiver Dez Bryant’s latest outburst. In the handicapping segment, Kevin Rogers of ...
By Derek Simon As I sit down to write this, the 142nd Kentucky Derby is 176 days, 22 hours, 23 minutes and two seconds away… and I haven’t even picked out what I’m going to wear yet! I jest, any...
By Derek Simon Prior to the running of this year’s Breeders’ Cup, I took to Twitter — I love the challenge of expressing my innermost thoughts and feelings in 140 characters or less — to post ...
US Racing‘s Derek Simon recaps the Breeders’ Cup Classic and gives his (final) take on the BC Sprint saga involving the owners of Runhappy and trainer Maria Borell. Later in the show, Dere...
By Laura Pugh The sport of Thoroughbred Racing rarely ever gets to see a fairytale that has a happily-ever-after ending. Too often, the news we get to see is of breakdowns or drug violations, but that...
By Derek Simon With the Breeders’ Cup now in the rearview mirror, it’s time to start focusing on winter racing — and Gulfstream Park has put together a weekend card sure to warm the heart of any...
By Derek Simon It was the feel-good story of the 2015 Breeders’ Cup: Runhappy, saddled by 32-year-old Maria Borell, winning the Sprint in the kind of effort that left observers lost for adjectives a...
Court Vision rallies to defeat Turallure and Goldikova in the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Mile (from www.horse-canada.com) By Derek Simon One of the things that makes handicapping the Breeders’ Cup ra...
