The racing world is mourning the loss of Helen “Penny” Chenery, who became an icon along with her Triple Crown-winning legend Secretariat. The “First Lady of Thoroughbred Racing” passed away at the age of 95, […]
The $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot (G3), a 1 1/16-mile race for juveniles won in recent years by such luminaries as Exaggerator, Gunnevera, Goldencents, and Big Drama, is one of eight open stakes races that […]
While the ramifications of the new “European Road to the Kentucky Derby” and the augmented “Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby” will become clear only in time, the international outreach is a welcome development for […]
Churchill Downs on Thursday unveiled the points schedule for eligibility to the 2018 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Kentucky Oaks (G1), with several new initiatives for the upcoming year. One year after establishing a separate “Japan […]
Trainer Todd Pletcher worked three of his Travers (G1) hopefuls Friday morning at Saratoga’s Oklahoma training track, including Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Always Dreaming and Belmont S. (G1) hero Tapwrit. Third in the Jim Dandy […]
We’re halfway home at the premiere summer meetings, and with the Road to the Kentucky Derby (i.e. points races) beginning in a few weeks and the Wynn Las Vegas expected to open its 2018 Kentucky […]
Observers hoping that some clarity in the three-year-old male division would result from this weekend’s Jim Dandy (G2) and Haskell Invitational (G1) had to have been as thrilled as the connections of the top two […]
The Jim Dandy (G2) at Saratoga has a fascinating history. It’s been won seven times by Triple Crown race winners and even by a maiden, Laoban, just a year ago. Another chapter in the race’s […]
On Saturday, Churchill Downs revealed the official logo for Kentucky Derby 144, which will take place on May 5, 2018, under the Twin Spires of the Louisville, Kentucky, track. The Twin Spires are the focal […]
by Scott Shapiro The 2017 Triple Crown season is complete and as always it provided handicappers with challenging analytical puzzles from start to finish. Much like 2016, my handicapping in the Kentucky Derby and the […]
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