In the days leading up to the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida, usracing.com will profile the horses in the race set for Jan. 23. The prof...
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 Richard Rosenblatt Let’s take a detour on the road to the Kentucky Derby, and shift our attention to the $3 million Pegasus World Cup (G1) at Gulfstream Park in less than three weeks. A dozen hor...
By Margaret Ransom A talent-filled opening day program on Saturday at Santa Anita Park will help usher out a year of horse racing that has been unpredictable, turbulent and downright implausible, and ...
By Mike Farrell Laurel Park does its part to keep the holiday season merry for racing fans by offering eight stakes Saturday on its Christmastide Day card. The $150,000 Allaire du Pont (G3) for fillie...
By Ed McNamara Unfortunately, “practice makes perfect” doesn’t apply to handicapping and betting. I’ve been playing the horses for 40 years, and gradually it’s gotten har...
By Richard Rosenblatt With the holiday season fast approaching – along with the end of 2020 — it seems like an appropriate time to sit back, take a deep breath, and think about … the Kentuck...
By Ed McNamara The 146th Kentucky Derby winner did very little wrong in a brief but brilliant career, and really, what’s wrong with finishing second in two Grade 1 races? Authentic won his other...
By Richard Rosenblatt Perhaps Al Stall, Jr. put Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Classic’s star-studded field into the best perspective, when, after thinking it over for a few seconds, he came up with t...
BC Distaff Showdown: Monomoy Girl versus Swiss Skydiver By Lynne Snierson The stage is set for Monomoy Girl, the diva of the filly and mare division, to have her Hollywood ending with a victory in Sat...
