By Ed McNamara The slogan is “Racing as It Was Meant to Be,” and on a chilly April morning or a warm October afternoon, there’s no better place in the world for a racing fan. Even though none ar...
By Richard Rosenblatt Why not? The top 3-year-old filly Swiss Skydiver is set to take on the boys in the $600,000 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (G2) at Keeneland on Saturday in a 13-horse field vying for k...
By Noel Michaels Blink and you’ll miss it. While horseplayers look forward to the start of the big summer meets at Saratoga and Del Mar in the next week or two, we all will be treated to a special b...
By USRacing Team News, notes, quotes and anecdotes from the world of horse racing over the past week. This is our first installment of a compilation of some names that made news during the week. Keene...
By Richard Rosenblatt Raging Bull came charging down the stretch and blew past the leaders for his first victory in more than 20 months, capturing the $300,000 Shoemaker Mile (G1) at Santa Anita on Mo...
By Maryjean Wall If you told me once that I’d be spending Fridays picking through the most notorious fluff and feathers in Kentucky horse country, I’d have said no way. But here we are. Another Fr...
By Margaret Ransom The La Brea Stakes (G1) has long served as the filly counterpart to Santa Anita’s opening day feature, the Malibu Stakes (G1), and through the decades since it was first contested...
By John Furgele For the second time in three years, a horse from Italy is the Yonkers International Trot champion. In 2017, Twister Bi was scintillating with a 2:22.1 world record performance for 1 ¼...
By Mike Farrell While we normally focus on events along the Eastern seaboard, this time our attention shifts north of the border to Woodbine. This is the weekend when that track is front and center wi...
By Richard Rosenblatt By Sunday evening, all but one of the 86 Breeders’ Cup Challenge “Win and You’re In’’ races will have been contested. Perhaps that will be a good day to begin sifting t...
