Three days after a bullet 1:01 (1/16) move at Calder Sunday, March 14, Bambera was back with a light breeze Wednesday, March 17, in preparation for her start tomorrow in the Grade 3 Rampart at Gulfstream. With 18 starts under her belt at the end of her 3-year-old season, Bambera has been well campaigned...

The ongoing trial of two suspected accomplices in the 2009 Dubai World Cup day assassination of Chechen commander Sulim Yamadayev continued today, ArabNews.com reports. Click here to read the story. Click here to read more background on the case. A decision is expected on April 12.

Saw Claire Novak’s piece circulating on Twitter that Venezuelan champion filly Bambera would be racing Saturday at Gulfstream Park. The race is the $150,000 Rampart, and it will be the filly’s US debut. An audible was called by her camp after Rachel Alexandra was declared out of the Apple...

In case you did not know, I am also writing the blog “Who’s Hot, Who’s Not,” which was formerly written by Jack Werk. Below are links to some recent columns: Street Cry is wizard of Oz Candy Ride’s background 100 years of Epsom Derby data 100 years of Derby data: inbreeding...

Saturday’s Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Handicap winner You and I Forever will not be shipped abroad for stud duty, said the agent involved in his purchase from the estate of breeder and owner Edmund Gann. Instead, he will target the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap and will remain in the barn of trainer...

Venezuelan champion Bambera, who’s been training steadily at Calder since December for a date with destiny in the Apple Blossom at Oaklawn, worked a bullet 5f in 1:01 flat Sunday—fastest of 16 at the distance. Her trainer, Gustavo Delgado, who’d left her in the care of Pablo Andrade...

Click here to read about the Hong Kong Derby at Sha Tin, a HK$16m (US$2,062,599) HK Group 1 event—the second most lucrative race in Hong Kong after the international Group 1 Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Cup at HK$20m, along with the international Group 1 Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Mile at HK$16m. The...

Brazilian-bred Zardana’s upset of Rachel Alexandra Saturday on dirt in the New Orleans Ladies Stakes at Fair Grounds was another step forward for the Sadler’s Wells line in the Americas, where dirt racing is more prevalent than anywhere else in the world. Sadler’s Wells, however, has...

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...