Questions of how good a race is, how good a horse is, is the essence of racing these days because the actual result of the race is no longer enough proof to answer the burning questions! I suppose it’s always been that way, too; when Quiet Little Table defeated Forego in the 1977 Suburban Handicap...

The year of 2009 will go down as one of the best for fillies, but not just because of Rachel Alexandra, Zenyatta, and Goldikova. It was also the year of the intriguing Sea the Stars, who did just enough to win his races but nevertheless filled a resume with accomplishments that will be hard to duplicate...

A sports journalist who attended the Overdose press conference yesterday in Alag, near Budapest, contacted me recently by email to give a first-hand account of what transpired. He goes by the moniker “Zeet” (He asked that I not reveal his real name), and you may have read the following comment...

The ongoing soap opera known as the “Overdose Story” took another melodramatic turn yesterday with the release of a video showing owner Zoltan Mikoczy back with his star in Hungary. Mr. Mikoczy, as recently as last week, was doing time in a jail in Oradea, Romania. He won an appeal last week...

There’d been reports off and on for months that Overdose’s champion Hungarian trainer, Sandor Ribarszki, would be leaving — or already had left, in some reports — bleak Kincsem Park in Budapest for the more colorful environs of Hoppegarten in Berlin. Then the photos and video...

To assuage growing fears among Hungarian fans that Overdose’s time in his home country was nearing an end with the recent imprisonment of his primary owner, Zoltan Mikoczy, in Romania, photos were released today showing the horse in the familiar surroundings of his trainer’s stable in Alag...

Press reports from Budapest say that undefeated Hungarian sprint star Overdose, who was convalescing in England from foot injuries, has returned to Budapest with his companion, Barbara Budinszki, who’s been with the horse from the day he entered training with Sandor Ribarszki. Overdose is owned...