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...

Trainer Todd Pletcher, who broke his own seasonal earnings record in 2007 with his horses accumulating more than $28.5 million in purses, went into the weekend four winners short of 2,000. With three entered at Gulfstream on Saturday, three more at Santa Anita, the high-class grass mare Wait a While...