From NYRA Stronach Stables’ highly-regarded Harlem Rocker posted an impressive workout this morning over the Saratoga main track for trainer Todd Pletcher in preparation for next Saturday’s 139th running the Grade 1, $1 million Travers Stakes presented by Shadwell Farm, for three-year-olds at a mile...

Louisville, Ky. Barclay Tagg was in good form on Tuesday at Churchill Downs. “You can’t see much of anything unless you watch it on TV,” Tagg said after watching Tale of Ekati work a half-mile in 49.40 seconds – on TV. “You go to the clockers’ stand and watch it on TV. Corporate America.” Tagg grumbled...

In each of the last three years, full fields of 20 have contested the Kentucky Derby. Invariably, a horse or two is excluded from the starting lineup, but none comes to memory that qualifies as a miscarriage of propriety resultant from the rule that establishes earnings in graded stakes as the deciding...

TOP STORIES: PYRO JOGS MILE ON RETURN TO CHURCHILL DOWNS CHANGE IN WORK PLANS FOR RECAPTURETHEGLORY TALE OF EKATI ZIPS IN KEENELAND WORK ADRIANO – Lane’s End (GII) winner Adriano was one of the last Kentucky Derby hopefuls on the track Wednesday morning, coming on to the track at 9:20 and schooling in...

Trainer Barclay Tagg, fresh off his second consecutive victory in the Wood Memorial, said Tale of Ekati shipped well to Keeneland and was in outstanding shape after Saturday’s win. “He came with me last night and everything is right,” said Tagg, who will now concentrate on Elysium Fields and Big Truck...

Charles E. Fipke's homebred TALE OF EKATI (Tale of the Cat) and champion War Pass (Cherokee Run) were both hoping to restore the luster to their tarnished reputations in Saturday's $750,000 Wood Memorial (GI) at Aqueduct. read more

Two horses who began the afternoon positioned tenuously are squarely in the Kentucky Derby frame after Saturday’s Grade I Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, both reversing recent setbacks to rejuvenate their positions in the pecking order of Louisville-bound three-year-olds. Tale of Ekati, sixth in the Louisiana...

Champion two-year-old WAR PASS (Cherokee Run), the 6-5 morning line favorite for Saturday's $750,000 Wood Memorial (G1), arrived in New York on Thursday afternoon after a choppy and turbulence-filled flight from Florida. read more

With a forecast for heavy rain on Friday and more on Saturday, War Pass, who attempts to rebound from an inexplicably poor effort in the Tampa Bay Derby last month, the first loss of his six-race career, may have his final Kentucky Derby prep in the Wood Memorial on a wet track., conditions similar to...

Regardless of what nugget of insight might be extracted from the weekend races for three-year-old prospective starters in the Kentucky Derby – we tend to expect more than we actually find in many of these -- there is the season’s first opportunity to evaluate two promising colts who will be making their...