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Big Brown is a breeze closer the Kentucky Derby after a five-furlong move Friday in 1:00.60 at Palm Meadows training center, his second work since a win in the Florida Derby. “It was just what I was looking for. It was basic…nothing special,” said trainer...
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Beat the favorite? This may be the spot Big Brown, officially anointed horse-of-the moment after two starts, both lengthy victories six months apart on different surfaces and in soft spots, is the overnight favorite to win the Grade I Florida Derby on...
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Though his itinerary remained a matter of discussion after Adriano returned to Polytrack at Turfway Park and won the Lane’s End Stakes with a certain degree of authority, it will be difficult to deny him the chance to run in the Kentucky Derby. Though...
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Chernobyl's Hero made his nineteenth start in the Aqueduct nightcap on Thursday, another attempt to escape the state-bred entry-level allowance condition, another opportunity to earn some money for Russian children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear...
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Of course, the pick-six play detailed this morning along with the reasons for passing, paid $6,610.00. The forecast trailing storm failed to materialize and the track at Aqueduct, while it appeared to contain a good deal of residual moisture from heavy...
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Sponging incident at Gulstream Park raises questions for the entire industry It is only about a year ago that an elaborate contraption was found to have been hidden beneath the turf at Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong designed to fire small injections...
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Would-be race fixer probably lost a big bet: Golden Velvet wins in a dead heat anyway Golden Velvet, Darley Stable’s candidate for Sunday’s Rampart Handicap at Gulfstream and the dead-heat co-winner of the Sabin Handicap here Jan. 6, was found after that...
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Nick Zito may be loaded with three-year-olds on the Derby trail but Coal Play is unlikely to see Churchill Downs in May after a less than encouraging performance in the Swale at Gulfstream Park. Horses destined to be competitive in the Derby will not...
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The citizens of Miami-Dade County, Florida, overwhelmingly approved slot machines for racetracks – in Miami, that also mean dog -- this week, a referendum that accompanied the presidential primaries in South Florida and followed the downsizing of the...
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After six-year-old Einstein breezed a half-mile at Gulfstream Park on Monday morning, trainer Helen Pitts confirmed that she will enter the Brazilian-bred Grade 1 turf winner in Florida’s most prestigious race for older horses on dirt, Saturday’s $500...
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The rain in Southern California, which has forced the cancelation of racing on Thursday and Friday, is forecast to persist through the weekend, the synthetic track at Santa Anita is again useless and it is highly unlikely that the Western portion of Saturday...
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With the announcement of the Eclipse Award winners late Monday night, the extension of the New York Racing Association franchise due to expire on Wednesday, the remote possibility of a settlement of negotiations between the hostile partisan factions of...
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Evening Attire did everything but win his first race at age 10 Saturday at Aqueduct, an effort that was typical of the old guy – drop back early, all the running happens in the last half-mile. The distance, a mile-and-sixteenth, is a bit too sharp and...
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California has only Biblical disasters – fire, trembling earth, searing winds, savage storms, synthetic racetracks, mudslides, celebrity breakdowns, the California Horse Racing Board. Until Wednesday, horses had trained at Santa Anita for only two of...
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There is nothing to be learned from Saturday’s Hutcheson Stakes for three-year-olds at Gulfstream Park other than what might be drawn from any race run over sloppy, apparently tiring ground that developed a suicidal early pace, fell apart late and ended...
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