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, […]
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Where should Horse of the Year favorite Bricks and Mortar go from here?
If it wasn’t clear before Saturday’s Arlington Million (G1), it is crystal now. Bricks and Mortar is the indisputable leader in the race for 2019 Horse of the Year. Granted, he didn’t beat anyone of […]
Unconventional candidates emerge as early Horse of the Year contenders
The end of the Triple Crown series on Saturday unofficially brought to a close the first half of the racing season and, unlike the landscape 12 months ago, we have ourselves a race for Horse […]
Switzerland marches to victory in De Francis Dash
Woodford Racing’s Switzerland, whose four-race winning streak was snapped last time out in the Alfred G. Vanderbilt (G1), came right back to land Saturday’s $250,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash (G3) during Laurel’s stakes-packed […]
Laurel postpones De Francis Dash, six other stakes to September 22
Laurel is postponing its slate of seven stakes scheduled for this Saturday, September 15, to September 22 in light of the impending arrival of major Hurricane Florence. The affected races are the De Francis Memorial […]
Top 10 U.S. racing achievements unlikely to be repeated
If Justify’s sweep of the Triple Crown magnifies anything, it’s that most of the virtually unrepeatable achievements ever attained by Thoroughbreds within living memory are generally the result not only of the innate talent of […]
Post-Pegasus retirement for Gun Runner avoids historical risks
The announcement Tuesday afternoon that likely Horse of the Year Gun Runner would race once more before standing the 2018 breeding season at Three Chimneys Farm came as no surprise. Presently at the Versailles, Kentucky, […]