Category Archives: Racing

As post time for Preakness (G1) 147 drew near, bettors recalled the shocking upset two weeks ago in the Kentucky Derby (G1) won by 80-1 Rich Strike. Following their hearts,...

It is already an unusual year in American racing’s Triple Crown—the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes (all G1s). Firstly, there was no Bob Baffert horse entered...

“Do not mistake temptation for opportunity.” – Chinese Proverb With horseracing fans still head in the clouds after the most improbable Kentucky Derby (G1) finish in more than a century,...

Fair-y tale (noun): a children’s story that is magical, idealized or extremely happy. Horseracing’s past has been replete with fairy tale endings. There was that day in 1938 when a...

If you live to be 86 years of age, you probably will have experienced most of the highs and lows that life has to offer. If you’ve spent the bulk...

Saturday’s Kentucky Derby 148 (G1) hopes the first “normal” Run for the Roses in four years. The last three years have seen the Derby marked by controversy and COVID. First...

“You have to do the best with what God gave you.” —Sally Field as Tom Hanks’ mother in Forest Gump [1994] It is an apocryphal story, one that cannot be...

If you’re old enough, you’ll remember baseball’s New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner as one of the most controversial figures in sports in the 1970s. His outspokenness and political activities...

As Country Grammer entered the final 100 yards of his stretch run in Saturday’s $20 million Saudi Cup, it seemed certain the enigmatic son of Tonalist (out of Arabian Song...

Like the athletes who competed in the recent Winter Olympics, Thoroughbred racehorses train all their competitive lives to participate in a sport that can mirror a full life in brief minutes....

Like his 2021 first-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, the results of the necropsy performed on Medina Spirit remain inconclusive. The three-year-old colt died suddenly Dec. 6 after finishing a...

Though his career-ending loss to Life Is Good in the Pegasus World Cup (G1) may have disappointed fans, Knicks Go ended his racing career by taking home Eclipse Award honors...

It wasn’t a gimme, but nothing has ever been for the little horse that finished third in the Kentucky Derby (G1), ran his heart out for second place to Essential...

What was supposed to be a farewell retirement party for the 2021 Longines IFHA World’s Best Racehorse of the Year, the certain North American Eclipse Award Horse of the Year...

This year’s Kentucky Derby  (G1) winner, Medina Spirit, collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack following a five-furlong training workout earlier today at Santa Anita Park. The announcement came...

"I've always found this a trying time of the year. Give me blizzards and frozen pipes, but not this nothing time, not this waiting room of the world.”  —C.S. Lewis...

What turned out to be a slam dunk began as a what-if as a stellar eight-horse field lined up in Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) at Del Mar. The storyline posed...

Thoroughbred racing has a new female star.  Echo Zulu blasted out of gate 6 to assume a lead that was never challenged on her way to a hand-ride 5 1/2-length...

Fausto Gutierrez is a breed apart in the exclusive world of Thoroughbred trainers.  For one thing, he’s the son of a lawyer whose family had no connection to the racing...

Climate change has introduced the phrase “100-year storm” to describe an event that occurs just once in a century. What happened Sunday in the centenary running of the Prix de...