By Margaret Ransom A trio of talented distaffers led by slight favorite Shedaresthedevil is set for Sunday’s $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch (G1) at Del Mar, with the winner earning an expenses-paid bert...
By Margaret Ransom The $250,000 Eddie Read Stakes (G2), one of the Del Mar’s signature turf races for older horses, will be contested for the 48th time on Saturday and a field of seven will br...
By Ed McNamara He promoted gambling but really did bet with his head, not over it. His persona of wise-cracking curmudgeon masked a love of racing. Most of his countless fans never met him, yet they c...
By Noel Michaels Some of the better stakes races over the Fourth of July weekend are set for the Summit of Speed at Gulfstream Park on Saturday. Both of Gulfstream’s premier summer features – the ...
By Richard Rosenblatt If you love betting on turf races, this is your weekend to excel, with the final day of the Royal Ascot meet, and no less than five graded stakes on the turf at Santa Anita, Monm...
By Richard Rosenblatt With the Triple Crown behind us and the summer season upon us, handful of graded stakes races is on tap over the weekend at Monmouth Park, Churchill Downs, Santa Anita and in Jap...
By Richard Rosenblatt To wind up the Memorial Weekend of horse racing, Santa Anita and Lone Star Park are set for a Monday (May 31) of top-notch graded stakes races. After checking on a race of anothe...
By Richard Rosenblatt The last time these two champions met, it was no contest in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1). Preakness (G1) winner Swiss Skydiver stumbled at the start, and lost all chance of v...
Another big weekend of stakes races is set, topped by the matchup of champions Monomoy Girl and Swiss Skydiver in the $1 million Apple Blossom Handicap (G1) at Oaklawn Park on Saturday. Oaklawn’s Sa...
By Richard Rosenblatt and Ed McNamara Essential Quality, Medina Spirit and 26 other 3-year-olds will be off and running Saturday in a trifecta of Kentucky Derby prep races with ‘win-or-run-second-an...
