By Noel Michaels Many of the best horses, jockeys, and trainers are competing at the winter meet at Gulfstream Park, and a month-and-a-half into the meet we see that perennial leading trainer Todd Ple...
By Ed McNamara It’s tough to hit a pick 3 or a pick 4, but when you do, there’s a feeling of accomplishment. You didn’t zig when you could have zagged, and vice versa. You dodged all...
By Richard Rosenblatt The race is on at Keeneland and Belmont Park for the final all-fees paid berths into the Breeders’ Cup less than a month away. Keeneland kicked off it Fall Stars Weekend on Fri...
By Ed McNamara If you dream of making big scores on the 38th Breeders’ Cup, pay attention to Saturday’s card at Keeneland. The five-stakes program is a dress rehearsal for the year-end cha...
By Noel Michaels The Saratoga meet is off and running and along with the best horses and top trainers, it’s no surprise that there’s a collection of many of the best jockeys in the country. Where ...
Southern California racing fans (well, racing fans across the country) will finally return to some semblance of normalcy on Friday as The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club’s 2021 summer race meet is set to ...
The Del Mar Summer meet opens on Friday, July 16, and runs through Labor Day, Sept. 6. Our usracing.com contributor Noel Michaels looks at some of the track trends that can help make your days at Del ...
By Noel Michaels You may have noticed that Gulfstream Park has scaled down its racing days from four days a week to three, Friday through Sunday, and it will stay that way through August. Why the shor...
By Noel Michaels The 2021 Monmouth Park summer race meet is rolling along amid quite the buzz these days, but perhaps for all the wrong reasons. While the focus should be on the quality racing and wag...
By Noel Michaels Horse racing fans get the holiday gift they really want – albeit a couple of days late – when the SoCal winter racing season celebrates its traditional post-Christmas opening day ...