It’s the Holy Grail of thoroughbred racing, and victory in Churchill Downs’ classic on the first Saturday in May is revered as the ultimate triumph. For many horses it launches a Hall of Fame care...
By Miriam Lee The Breeders’ Cup Championship culminates the racing season and crowns the fleetest sprinters, the most promising two-year-olds, the best turf horses. At $2 million, the Breeders�...
Kentucky Derby winner Country House won’t be running in the 52nd edition of the $1 million Haskell Invitational on Saturday, but the horse that crossed the finish line first in the Run for the Roses...
Once, as I reclined on an easy chair, sipping a Michelob Ultra (gotta watch the carbs), with a copy of the Daily Racing Form spread out on my lap, I was asked to explain what I was doing. Smiling, I t...
It’s safe to say the 33 runnings of the Breeders’ Cup Classic (GI) so far have been kind to 3-year-olds. A total of 11 sophomores — 33 percent — have defeated older horses in the main event on...
The top three finishers from this year’s Kentucky Derby (GI) — Nyquist, Exaggerator and Gun Runner — all meet up for the last time as sophomores in the last major dirt derby of the year in Satur...
On Saturday, the Grade I, $1 million Cotillion Stakes for three-year-old fillies will be run at Parx Casino and Racing at a mile and a sixteenth. Despite the fact that it is the only Grade I on the Pa...
13 starts, six wins, three seconds, and one third. That is the record of Exaggerator, who will be running in the 2016 Travers Stakes and has been installed as the morning line favorite. There are quit...
Whoever wins Saturday’s $200,000 Best Pal Stakes (GII) has some big shoes to fill: firstly, for who the race is named after and, secondly, last year’s winner (Nyquist) went on to earn championship...
Surviving a jockey objection, Exaggerator won his third Grade I of the season in the Haskell Invitational (G1), giving his sire (Curlin) his fourth stakes winner of the weekend. Many questioned the de...
