By Ray Paulick Well, it was fun while it lasted, this dream of someday returning to Hialeah Park to enjoy horse racing in its most beautiful setting. Since making my first trip there in 1988, when the South Florida track already was in severe decline, I’ve held out hope that someone, somehow could...

A meeting at Saratoga bookended by Commentator winning the Whitney Handicap a second time and Curlin taking the Woodward saw the six weeks unfold with a magnificent effort by the best mare in training, Ginger Punch, another by three-year-old Proud Spell in the Alabama and a truly memorable Travers in...

Saratoga Springs, New York Regardless of what has transpired during the last six weeks, there is always a touch of melancholy on the last day of this meeting. The lemon has been more than squeezed dry this year. The lemon is dehydrated by long days on which too many races have been run in the service...

The New York Racing Association announced on Friday that John Passero has resigned as director of racing surfaces, effective September 1st at the conclusion of the Saratoga Race Course meeting, news widely applauded in almost every segment of the racing community. Passero, whose methods have come under...

After eight days of racing at Saratoga, the New York Racing Association and the intrepid legion known as NYRA Nation have yet to see a positive business day. The people who paid $15,000-a-chair for "preferred access" just aren't betting much. This week's early returns show attendance...

Saratoga Springs, New York Race replays were restored to the New York Racing Association website on Friday after having been halted by a nonsensical edict from the State Racing and Wagering Board. The general assumption was that what was available before the board interjected itself without real purpose...

Saratoga Springs, New York Two days of rain and a marketing misjudgment have put the New York Racing Association so far behind its early 2007 figures that the meeting is unlikely to recover over by Labor Day. The first two days of the 2007 meeting at Saratoga drew 62,123, a figure inflated by a bobble...