Category Archives: Racing

We are still a week and a half away from the Festival de Belmont Stakes, but fortunately, we need not wait that long to feast our eyes upon the greatest...

In a lifetime around horses, many were treasured family and teachers of an uncommon kind. Usually the best of them had something that made them "undesirable" and a hard sell...

With the Triple Crown off the table for 2016, you might think that there is no drama left for the upcoming Belmont Stakes. But, believe it or not, this horse race...

It's no secret that many an Irish are born with horses in their veins. At ages when most children are learning to ride bicycles with training wheels, these youngsters are...

Count Fleet, racing's sixth Triple Crown champion, was always known to be an enthusiastic stud who never really outgrew his love for the ladies. This preoccupation sometimes got him into trouble, such...

Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist will not compete in the Belmont Stakes, trainer Doug O'Neill told Daily Racing Form Tuesday morning. Blood tests performed on Monday after the colt spiked a...

Plans to ship Nyquist to Belmont Park on Monday have been put on hold as the Kentucky Derby champ spiked a mild fever. As first reported by DRF, Nyquist had...

Horse racing lost a potential Triple Crown tonight on the muddy banks of the Preakness, but gained a formidable rivalry filled with intrigue and full of run. Exaggerator surged down...

Look, we'd like to see Nyquist get his proverbial "Preak on" this afternoon at Pimlico and keep this party going another couple of weeks. What can we say? The Triple...

Phillip Dutton has spent more time on the backs of thoroughbreds than many jockeys. The Australamerican has piloted such ex-racehorses as TruLuck and The Foreman around numerous 4* events, and is currently...

There's a horse running Friday at Pimlico that you need to see. He is not a classically bred stallion-in-waiting, in fact, he can't even reproduce. He never ran for the roses,...

It took many years before there was an ability to tell this individual's story. Even now, there's a tightness around my heart just thinking about him. There was nothing ordinary about...

This week John and Darin recap the Kentucky Derby and look ahead to the Preakness Stakes. Along with that, we dig a bit deeper into the story of Nyquist's jockey Mario Gutierrez. The...

It's been a pretty laid back week for Kentucky Derby champion Nyquist as he settles into the backside at Pimlico Race Course in anticipation of next Saturday's Preakness Stakes. Since...

Millionaires, billionaires and gazillionaires of all ages...grab your fastest thoroughbred, a $1 million check and your finest panama hat and head down to Gulfstream Park on January 28, 2017, for...

Frank Hayes, stableman and trainer by trade, and maiden racer Sweet Kiss, hold a bizarre distinction in racing history. The pair competed in only one race, and though they won,...

Moments after reaching the pinnacle of his profession for the second time in as many tries, jockey Mario Gutierrez sat atop the colt named Nyquist as mounted reporter Donna Barton Brothers hustled...

If you go straight back along Nyquist's sire line you will eventually find Caro. Caro was standing at Spendthrift Farm in 1982. Walter Christensen, coach of the Swedish Olympic dressage...

There were questions coming in. Sure, Nyquist was undefeated, but was he really fast enough? Was he fit enough to stay the distance in his first test beyond a mile...

The race may still be half an hour away but Johnny Weir and his tweet-powered brooch have already taken the early lead for most memorable moment at this year's Kentucky Derby....