By Richard Rosenblatt The road to the Kentucky Derby makes stops at three tracks on the first day of 2022, with a total of 27 newly-turned 3-year-olds entered in point-qualifiers at Aqueduct, Oaklawn ...
By Richard Rosenblatt The thoroughbred racing world lost too many champions in 2021, most recently the collapse and death of Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Medina Spirit on Dec. 6. The tragedy occurred tw...
By Richard Rosenblatt Let’s make this week’s edition of Top 10 Derby contenders from usracing.com/news a short one. Because as we know, the 146th running of the Kentucky Derby is likely to be resc...
Pegasus World Cup Turf Odds and Post Positions Channel Cat is one of those turf marathoners you always must consider betting but who doesn’t inspire much confidence. He’s 0-for-5 at the Grade 1 le...
By Margaret Ransom Spiced Perfection, a multiple Grade 1 winner and likely California-bred Horse of the Year, headlines a field of eight distaffers for Saturday’s $200,000 La Canada Stakes (G3) at S...
By US Racing Team Greenshoe was the runaway winner over stablemate Gimpanzee for the Dan Patch Award as 3-year-old Trotter of the Year in voting released Friday by the United State Harness Writers Ass...
By Margaret Ransom If not for the great Secretariat, Sigmond Summer and Claiborne Farms’ Sham would have been the best 2-year-old of 1972 and best 3-year-old of 1973, thanks to his impressive Califo...
By US Racing Team Buck Thornburg, a popular jockey who rode more than 3,400 winners over nearly four decades, has died, his family said on Monday. Thornburg, who won the 1980 Florida Derby (G1) and Wo...
by Derek Simon In an excellent article that appeared in the Thoroughbred Daily News a while back, “Lasix: Why the Effinex Team Just Said Yes,” author Bill Finley recounts the story of Effinex, a f...
by Derek Simon Note: I wrote the following article several years ago, but received a request to post it again. It pertains to making a fair odds line and includes a link to an Excel program that I cre...
