With a weather front approaching New York, the racetrack at Aqueduct was sealed tight and rolled after the last race on Thursday. The combination of rain and heavy equipment will do nothing to rectify the pronounced inside speed bias that has prevailed during the first two days of racing on the main...

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 be found under a drive and unresponsive while racing...

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’s Sunshine Millions program will be run as...

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 philistines in Albany, the more likely additional...

The chart will reflect that Indian Blessing was 1-10 and life and death to hold on in the final yards of the Santa Ynez Stakes on Sunday at post-flood Santa Anita – and she was -- but will not reflect the immensity of the effort. The Cushion Track that was flooded a week ago when the drainage system...

Santa Anita’s main racing surface was reopened for training on Wednesday and officials are optimistic that racing will continue on the Cushion Track footing at least until it rains again. “This has obviously been a very difficult period for everyone involved but we’re looking forward to getting back...