By Richard Rosenblatt The Fair Grounds presents Road to the Derby Day on Saturday, featuring the Lecomte Stakes (G3) for 3-year-olds, plus an intriguing matchup between newly-turned 4-year-olds Mandal...
By Mike Farrell Thanksgiving is here again, that time when we pause to acknowledge our many blessings. There are multiple reasons for racing fans to reflect on this past season. We can all give thanks...
By Mike Farrell Medina Spirit was set to come east Saturday to headline the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby (G1) at Parx Racing. He would have arrived with a whole lot of off-track baggage. Now he’s s...
By Mike Farrell The squirrels in the Northeast are frenzied as the mature acorns come showering down and the first wave of leaves are off the trees. Fall is just around the corner, as any racing fan c...
By Ed McNamara J.J. Pletcher is 83, and his hair has been gray for a long time. It’s safe to say that worrying about his only child didn’t cause it. On Friday, this career horseman will sa...
By Ray Wallin Are you part of the 95% of people reading this article that do not know that today is World Statistics Day? I made that up, but it sounded good, didn’t it? Mark Twain once quipped “T...
By Mike Farrell Bill Shannon, the late baseball historian and the “Dean of Official Scorers,” lived by this credo in the ballpark: Always pay close attention because something might unfold that yo...
The $1 million TVG.com Haskell Stakes (G1) had to settle for a trio of runners-up from the Triple Crown, but that doesn’t mean the 54th edition of the marquee race at Monmouth Park will be any less ...
If you grew up in New Jersey, as I did, during the summer you never said you were going to the beach. You went “down the shore,” a Jersey-ism whose origin is unknown. For as far back as I can reme...
By Richard Rosenblatt Just call this the runner-up Haskell Stakes. The second-place finishers from the Triple Crown – Mandaloun in the Kentucky Derby (for now), Midnight Bourbon in the Preakness and...
