By Richard Rosenblatt Jim Thorpe was born near Prague, Oklahoma, about a 60-minute drive east of Remington Park in Oklahoma City. Thorpe was an incredible athlete, considered by many the greatest of t...
By US Racing Team Let the racing awards begin … It’s December, so the horse racing world takes some time out from so much controversy swirling around the sport to honor those who have excelled in ...
By Ed McNamara It began at age 12 on the primitive bush tracks of Louisiana, and it will end on a December night far from the spotlight. In the time between, Robby Albarado created a highlight reel eq...
By Noel Michaels Some of the country’s top winter dirt racing has already begun in the Midwest with the opening of the Oaklawn Park meet last week. The meet added 10 racing days to boost its winter ...
By Ed McNamara Like most star athletes, jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. is a Type A personality who excels because of aggressiveness as well as talent. His “take no prisoners” approach, which helped win th...
By Ed McNamara The controversy surrounding Bob Baffert and his Kentucky Derby victory will linger, but first-place finisher Medina Spirit is gone. The gritty little colt collapsed and died Monday morn...
By Mike Farrell Art Sherman, as classy an individual as you will ever meet in horse racing, will soon saddle his final runner. Sherman recently announced his retirement, ending an amazing run as a joc...
By Mike Farrell The long and winding road that is the New York Racing Association’s 2021 graded stakes schedule concludes Saturday with a quartet of races topped by the Cigar Mile (G1). The card als...
By Richard Rosenblatt Del Mar’s Turf Festival closes out the track’s fall meeting over this holiday weekend, ending a successful run that began with the 36th Breeders’ Cup in early November. Sta...
By Noel Michaels A trio of racetracks are in the spotlight this weekend before Thanksgiving, so let’s focus in on Del Mar, Churchill Downs and Aqueduct. With top quality races at these three tracks,...
