LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Tuesday, May 9, 2017) – Always Dreaming, hero of last Saturday’s 143rd running of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (Grade I), departed Churchill Downs at 6:40 a.m. Tues...
Once upon a time in a land, well, not that far away, speed ruled the American turf. From pre-war wonders like Colin and Man o’ War to modern-day marvels like Ruffian, Affirmed and American Pharoah, ...
There is little question that some very good, even great, horses have won the Grade II Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park. The race was first run in 1945 and is for three-year-olds going a mi...
Quick, who was the last winner of a Triple Crown to race in the Florida Derby? If you guessed it was Affirmed in 1978, you guessed wrong. The year was 1992, and that colt, who finished sixth in Hallan...
The Withers Stakes (GIII), which will be contested over Aqueduct’s inner track on Saturday, is one of the oldest stakes for 3-year-olds contested in the country. Since it was first run in 1899 and w...
With his win aboard Da Big Hoss in Saturday’s Grade III Calumet Farm Kentucky Turf Cup, jockey Florent Geroux has notched twenty-three graded stakes victories in 2016. It was his fiftieth career gra...
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...
It hardly seems like an entire year since racing witnessed American Pharoah win the first Triple Crown in 37 years, but here we are. And despite a year with no Triple Crown on the line, this year’s ...
“The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles.” ~Garth Stein Exaggerator can stake his claim as the top three-year-old in training on Sa...
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” ~William Shakespeare The Triple Crown season is drawing to a close and after next Saturday we will ...
