While most attention will be focused upon Pyro and the Louisiana Derby on Saturday, the Gotham, which will be run at the same 1 1/16-mile distance, is a good deal more contentious. Pyro will be an odds on favorite in New Orleans and is expected to run over the field he faces at the Fair Grounds, particularly...

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 1:23.21 seven furlongs after it began with one...