They lined up around the walking ring Saturday at Santa Anita Park, with some staking out their spot long in advance to make sure they had just the right spot.… read more →
When racing season starts the road to the Kentucky Derby, a 35 race series becomes an objective for most all owners and trainers. Most don’t realize their dream for one… read more →
This article serves as Part 2 of a two-part piece. My observations on one facet of marketing horse racing–to youths–based on things I observed at Belmont Park on Belmont Stakes/Triple… read more →
In case you’ve ever wondered why I don’t experience an event, then turn around and write about it immediately–as do reporters–it’s because I’m a mulling kind of person. i.e., I… read more →
Beholder – who was named the champion 2-year-old filly for 2012 and 3-year-old filly for 2013 – kept up her winning ways Saturday at age 5 with a victory in… read more →
The grey, dark rain pelted West 34th Street in Manhattan, in the way that film directors try to re-create. Cold, blood-freezing-cold rain. Rain that gives you a headache, and makes… read more →
If the roads and horse paths of a race track are the veins and arteries that facilitate the transportation of Life, then surely the track kitchen–at which all paths cross–is… read more →
I’m sick to death of reading and hearing that horse racing in American needs a Triple Crown victory. Good Lord, the way people talk, one would think that a win… read more →
OK, so here’s the deal: This is really just a copy-and-paste of a press release that I just got from NYRA, in which the events for today (Memorial Day, 2015)… read more →
Some people enjoy being miserable. Or they enjoy making other people miserable. Or it might just be that they love belly-aching, always finding something about which to complain. Last year,… read more →