By Ed McNamara My wife, Jean, and I were in Lefty O’Doul’s, the famous San Francisco saloon, while on vacation nine years ago. While chatting with a friendly, 30-ish woman a few stools away, the c...
Kentucky Derby Field and Post Positions This year’s Kentucky Derby has already gone through its share of changes and adjustments from date, to crowds to prep races, but perhaps the biggest change ma...
Kentucky Derby Morning Line Favorites: Mike Battaglia has been Churchill Downs’ morning line odds maker for 46 years since 1974. The 2020 Kentucky Derby will mark oddsmaker Mike Battaglia’s 47th y...
What’s in a Millionaire – Kentucky Derby 2020 Street Sense (2007), California Chrome (2014), American Pharoah (2015) and Nyquist (2016) are the only horses that entered the Kentucky Derby with...
By Richard Rosenblatt The $1 million Louisiana Derby (G1), the first really big race on the road to the Kentucky Derby (G1) as it’s the first offering 100-40-20-10 points to the top four finishers, ...
By Mike Farrell The “Fighting Finish” is one of the most recognizable images in horse racing. The head-on shot captures the fury of the 1933 Kentucky Derby stretch run, won by Brokers Tip by a nos...
By Ed McNamara Pool 1 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager is a wild stab. On the first weekend in December, off a few races — none further than 1 1/16 miles –you must predict the winner of ...
