While most attention will be focused upon Pyro and the Louisiana Derby on Saturday, the Gotham, which will be run at the same 1 1/16-mile distance, is a good deal more contentious. Pyro will be an odds on favorite in New Orleans and is expected to run over the field he faces at the Fair Grounds, particularly...

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...

While his many fans observed a reflective, perhaps mournful anniversary, a year to the day after the death of the most celebrated thoroughbred in recent memory, it was announced on Tuesday that the cremated remains of what was once Barbaro will be buried outside Gate 1 at Churchill Downs, where he won...

There is nothing to be learned from Saturday’s Hutcheson Stakes for three-year-olds at Gulfstream Park other than what might be drawn from any race run over sloppy, apparently tiring ground that developed a suicidal early pace, fell apart late and ended 1:23.21 seven furlongs after it began with one...