By Richard Rosenblatt Nearly a year ago, I was ready for a Steve Asmussen breakthrough in the Kentucky Derby. The Hall of Fame trainer was 0-for-20 in the Run for the Roses, and had a bunch of really ...
By Noel Michaels Some of the country’s top winter dirt racing is ready to return to the Midwest with the opening of the Oaklawn Park meet on Friday (Jan. 22). Oaklawn Park boasts big fields, strong ...
By Ed McNamara The only horses who won the Louisiana Derby and the Kentucky Derby were Black Gold (1924) and Grindstone (1996). That doesn’t mean the Fair Grounds’ three Derby preps —...
By Lynne Snierson Florent Geroux is packing his tack and moving to Oaklawn Park this season. The addition of one of the nation’s top riders to the already intensely competitive jockey colony makes a...
By Ed McNamara It was a late autumn afternoon at Turfway Park, a minor-league outpost in northern Kentucky, near the Ohio border. Not much that happens there is memorable, yet for Brad Cox it provided...
By Noel Michaels The year 2020 will go down as one of the strangest in thoroughbred racing, with no fans in attendance most of the year, many tracks closed for significant amounts of time, and a Tripl...
In the days leading up to the 37th Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky, usracing.com will profile the horses in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic (Saturday, Nov. 7). B...
Preakness Profile: Excession In the days leading up to Saturday’s 145th Preakness, usracing.com will be publishing profiles of the 11 horses entered in 2020’s final leg of the Triple Crown. By Ed ...
By Richard Rosenblatt Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert was suspended for 15 days by the Oaklawn Park stewards after two of his star 3-year-olds, Charlatan and Gamine, tested positive in post-race drug...
By Noel Michaels With sports virtually shut down throughout the months of April and May, horse racing has continued to flourish as basically the only game in town, albeit with no fans. What the sport ...
