By Margaret Ransom A betting bonanza is set for Santa Anita on the first Saturday of the autumn meet, with seven stakes carded including five with Breeders’ Cup implications. Overall, 11 races are o...
By Richard Rosenblatt After watching Maximum Security dust off another contingent of challengers, this time in the Pacific Classic (G1), I began to long for a Kentucky Derby do-over. On May 4, 2019, t...
By Margaret Ransom Del Mar has put together an outstanding 11-race card Saturday with champion Maximum Security the headliner in a six-horse field for the 30th running of the $500,000 Pacific Classic ...
Champion Maximum Security Wins San Diego in First Race for Baffert By Margaret Ransom Gary and Mary West and Coolmore’s champion Maximum Security returned to his winning ways on Saturday, much to th...
By Ed McNamara Nobody showed up, and business was booming. That was the story for the first four days of what will be Saratoga’s strangest meeting in its 157-year history. The New York Racing Associ...
Wild and Crazy World of Maximum Security Continues in San Diego Handicap By Margaret Ransom The $150,000 San Diego Handicap (G2) at Del Mar on Saturday has been the traditional prep for the track’s ...
Horse Racing Doping: The thoroughbred racing industry received a devastating blow when champion Maximum Security’s trainer Jason Servis was among more than two dozen horse trainers, veterinarians, a...
By Ed McNamara To become king of the world, Maximum Security had to fly through a third of it. Even for a horse who has finished first in all but one of his 10 races, it’s never been easy. Last summ...
Maximum Security Best Horse: It figured this horse would get himself involved in a wild and woolly finish, and this time he made a winning move to the inside of Mucho Gusto as he went on to victory in...
Saudi Cup Thoroughbreds: Since forever, Arabs have revered the running horse. A legend of the Bedouins, nomads of the desert, says Allah created the horse from the South Wind and decreed: “You shall...