Racing
Super Saturday Full of Surprises
Favorites fell and new potential stars shone brightly as “Super Saturday” became “Surprise Saturday” at Meydan, re-shuffling the pecking order for the March 25 Dubai…
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MeydanRoyal Blue Flush
Timing is everything and with Super Saturday a week away, Godolphin put its best clockers in the post and came away with a royal blue…
1 year ago
Racing
Champion Thoroughbred Charismatic Dies at 21
The image is seared in the minds of Thoroughbred racing fans. It’s the end of the 1999 Belmont Stakes and as Charismatic’s Triple Crown hopes…
1 year ago
Racing
Nashmiah Steals the Show in Dubai
This week’s Dubai World Cup Carnival featured an unusual two meetings on Thursday and Saturday and more than one unusual finish. It’s rare that winning…
2 years ago
Racing
Globetrotting Mare Steals the Show at Meydan
We all know change can be a good thing. That maxim was proved at the World Cup Carnival as Furia Cruzada changed countries for the fifth…
2 years ago
Racing
Trainers on the Trail
Not sure who to pay attention to this Kentucky Derby season? The Kentucky Derby trail is quickly heating up with less than 100 days until…
2 years ago
Racing
Godolphin Flexes With Five Wins at Meydan Carnival
Blue was the color of the fourth meeting of the Dubai World Cup Carnival at Meydan Thursday as hometown equine empire Godolphin and its boys…
2 years ago
Racing
Well-Aged: Mike Smith Still “Money” on the Big Stage
As the world’s richest horse race nears its inaugural running, it seems only fitting that the world’s best big-money rider would not only be involved,…
2 years ago
Racing
Chrome and Arrogate: The $12 Million Rematch
Turning for home with a 1-1/2 length lead and a head full of steam in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic, it seemed like a mere…
2 years ago
Racing
Man o’War Turned 100 and the Kentucky Horse Park is Having a Party
“Folks talk about ‘second Man o’ Wars’. There ain’t any ‘second Man o’ Wars’. This is the greatest hoss of them all. Nobody will ever…
2 years ago
OTTB
California Chrome: Future Polo Pony?
At 5:30am on Monday morning, polo champion Nic Roldan and friends arrived at Gulfstream Park outside Miami to meet The Champ himself, California Chrome…and what…
2 years ago
Racing
California Chrome Wins 2016 Horse of the Year
California Chrome was voted 2016 Horse of the Year, an honor which he also won in 2014, at the 46th Annual Eclipse Awards ceremony at…
2 years ago
Racing
Another ‘Championship’ Week in Dubai
The Al Fahidi Fort is named after Dubai’s oldest structure, built in 1787, and the winner of this year’s 7-furlong Group 2 feature was 6-year-old…
2 years ago
Racing
“The Wizard” Makes Magic in Dubai
Local favorite Reynaldothewizard proved there is still some magic left in his 11-year-old hooves as he poofed away his competitors to win his third consecutive 3/4-mile…
2 years ago
Racing
Dubai World Cup Carnival Kicks Off “Coolest Month in Racing”
If “April is the cruelest month”, as T.S. Eliot famously wrote, then January may be the coolest month for horse racing fans, and not just…
2 years ago
Books and Film
The Humans of Horse Racing
Join Linda Finstad on an extraordinary photographic journey into the “back stretch” in her new book The Humans of Horse Racing. Discover the inner sanctum of racing, strictly…
2 years ago
Breeding
The Best Useless Colt Ever
The life of a broodmare manager is not a glamorous one, which means that the life of the significant other to a broodmare manager isn’t…
2 years ago
Racing
Behind the Scenes With American Pharoah
In the loaded world of sports, rarely does a horse breakthrough to mainstream acclaim. To draw the general public’s waning attention away from the daily deluge of…
2 years ago
Aftercare
Life Abundant at Old Friends
It is difficult to tell the claimers from the Derby champions as they press against their paddock fences hoping to seduce the passing tour into…
2 years ago
Racing
Behind the Scenes at Lane’s End Farm
Driving into Lane’s End Farm is a bit of challenge. Between the impossibly green pastures stretching into the horizon, jaw-dropping barns and world class horses…