Ranking Eclipse Award Winners: Turf Horse
In celebration of the 50th year of the Eclipse Awards, Brisnet staff and contributors have delved into the history of the past five decades of champions and come up with individual thoughts on the best, […]
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Ranking Eclipse Award Winners: Turf Female
In celebration of the 50th year of the Eclipse Awards, Brisnet staff and contributors have delved into the history of the past five decades of champions and come up with individual thoughts on the best, […]
Best of Hanson: 2020 Anthology
The cessation of racing in most jurisdictions during the darker days of the pandemic last spring afforded me the opportunity to produce a few more historically-oriented features during the course of the year than would […]
Clash of the Titans: Remembering the 1950 Hollywood Gold Cup
Seventy years ago this week, 50,000 fans congregated at Hollywood Park to witness what must be considered among the finest assemblages of Thoroughbred accomplishment for any race of that era, and to this day certainly […]
Preakness-winning fillies: Is Swiss Skydiver the sixth, or the fourth?
When Swiss Skydiver outdueled Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Authentic in an epic Preakness Stakes (G1), she was recognized as the sixth filly to defeat males in the classic. […]
Royal Harmony: Ohio’s Iron Horse
An hour’s drive from the lush and fertile Bluegrass region of Kentucky, and across the eponymous river, lies Ohio. Better known on the national sporting scene for college football and the loyal but often dispirited […]
Celebrating a half-millennium of racing at Britain’s historic Chester
As British racing authorities map out plans to reschedule the classics amid the COVID-19 pandemic, other fixtures aren’t so fortunate. This week’s festival at Chester is the latest casualty. Although its classic trials – the […]
Classifying the Triple Crown winners: Four categories of champions
In addition to the blockbuster Arkansas Derby Day at Oaklawn Park, Saturday offers a virtual treat in the form of the “Kentucky Derby: Triple Crown Showdown.” The computer-simulated race, pitting the 13 Triple Crown champions […]
Remembering Alysheba’s resilient Derby win
Hear from Chris MacCarron and Mike Battaglia as James Scully reflects on Alysheba’s gutsy 1987 Kentucky Derby win. […]
Manila schooled his rivals when writing a new chapter in Churchill Downs history
Who was Manila and how did he come to dynamically impact the debut of Churchill Down’s Turf Course? […]