Welcome to the 150th Kentucky Derby, Bill Mott. Resilience swept into the lead around the final turn and cruised to an easy victory in the $750,000 Wood Memorial (G2) at Aqueduct on Saturday, giving H...
The final entrance ramps on the road to the $5 million Kentucky Derby (G1) are open in Lexington, Ozone Park, New York, and Arcadia, California this weekend, with a small window of opportunity a week ...
Deterministic came off a long layoff and promptly put himself in the Kentucky Derby (G1) picture with a rousing victory in the $300,000 Gotham (G3) over a sloppy Aqueduct Racetrack on Saturday. In his...
By Margaret Ransom Nine sophomores whose connections have Kentucky Derby (G1) dreams will race 1 1/8 miles over Aqueduct’s main track in Saturday’s $750,000 Wood Memorial Stakes (G2). A year ago, ...
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...
By Ed McNamara The potential field for the 147th Kentucky Derby has been sorting itself out for months, and Saturday should fill in many of the blanks. It’s the biggest day for preps — the...
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 Noel Michaels The first Kentucky Derby prep races of the season, including the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1), are in the books. And with a small gap from now until the next round of prep races (the...
By Ed McNamara Playing the horses is a game of the day, with races over in the time it takes to brush your teeth. The entire Triple Crown doesn’t even last 6 1/2 minutes, and a place in history ...
By Mike Farrell Racing is always more fun and infinitely more interesting when Michael Dickinson, the “Mad Genius” is back in action. Dickinson, a man of unshakeable conviction and strong opinion,...
