Belmont Park canceled live horse racing for this Saturday and Sunday (Sept. 26 and 27) because of a strengthening nor’easter expected to bring heavy rain, strong winds, and coastal flooding to Long Island and the New York metro area. The New York Racing Association (NYRA) announced the decision to...
Whenever you size up the past performances of a New York turf stakes for fillies and mares, one name comes to mind: Chad Brown. The future Hall of Famer has dominated them for the past 15 years, and among the many races he owns is the Flower Bowl Stakes (G2). Brown trained the winner eight […...
Joe Hirsch was more than an outstanding writer for the Daily Racing Form. He was an ambassador for the sport whose influence extended to Europe, and he loved international racing. Appropriately, in 2004, about four years before he died, the Turf Classic (G1) was renamed in his honor. Since its incep...
The Vosburgh's grade may have diminished, but its capacity to produce a Breeders' Cup horse has not. Ten sprinters will test the new Belmont Park on Saturday in the $250,000 Vosburgh Stakes (G3), a 7-furlong "Win and You're In" qualifier for the $2 million Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) on Oct. 31 at Kee...
When it comes to his champion filly Nitrogen, Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse is one “proud papa.’’ And that comment came after a loss against the boys – a gallant second-place effort behind Horse of the Year Sovereignty in the $1 million Whitney Stakes (G1) at Saratoga on Aug. 8. On Friday,...
Hard to believe Hall of Famer D. Wayne Lukas has been gone for more than a year. The timeless Hall of Fame trainer seemed impervious to time's inexorable march. We’re reminded of the horseman who won 15 Triple Crown races and 20 Breeders’ Cup races with the running of the $500,000 Lukas Classic ...
The $200,000 City of Hope Mile (G2) is a 1-mile turf race for 3-year-olds and a Breeders’ Cup Challenge “Win, and You’re In” event for the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) set for Keeneland on Oct. 31. The race began in 1986 as the Colonel F. W. Koester Handicap, later ran as the Oak Tree Mile, [&h...
We once again reached that point where we run out of Derbies. Not the fashionable headgear, but the open stakes for 3-year-olds scattered throughout the season. Of course, the Kentucky Derby (G1) is the grandaddy of them all. The Derbys give sophomores chances to compete in their age group for lucra...
There’s just one Grade 1 winner in the field of nine for Saturday’s $300,000 Goodwood Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita, and that would be Nevada Beach, who returns seeking to become the first two-time winner of the race since Game on Dude in 2011-12. Nevada Beach, the 7-5 morning-line favorite, is tra...
The reimagined Belmont Park is up and running after a three-year rebuild, the Autumn meet at Santa Anita opens this weekend, and the all-important Keeneland fall meet is poised for its Oct. 2-4 opening weekend featuring eight Breeders' Cup Challenge "Win and You're In" races. Yes, we're getting clos...
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