To afford a full four-week gap between the Breeders’ Cup and the stakes that mark New York’s last truly big racing weekend until the spring, the New York Racing Association chose this year to move Aqueduct’s Cigar Mile, Remsen, and Demoiselle out of ...Full Story >>
Racing's worst reality-TV show returned to the airwaves after a three-month hiatus Thursday with a one-hour meeting of the New York Racing Association Reorganization Board. The largely government-appointed NYRARB was established by New York Gov. ...
If you're hoping to see the winner of Saturday's Gotham Stakes in the Kentucky Derby winner's circle May 7, there are two good reasons to be cautious. First, it has been 43 years since Secretariat became the last Gotham winner to triumph in Louisville. ...
There are four horses in Saturday's Grade 3 Jerome at Aqueduct that hit 90 on the Beyer scale late in their 2-year-old seasons, suggesting this is a race that deserves more than casual attention.
The first five races at Aqueduct Dec. 18 were a dreary quintet, with just 34 horses contesting four maiden races and a $10,000 claimer. Yet they commanded the attention of horseplayers from coast to coast, who wagered a record $1.2 million on the ...
There are four graded stakes at Aqueduct Saturday including the Cigar Mile, the last Grade 1 race in New York until the Carter and Wood Memorial next April. It's a quartet worth watching, highlighted by some very quick 2-year-olds stretching out in ...
You can review hundreds of races and not see many quite like the Cigar Mile at Aqueduct, with a horse having five consecutive triple-digit Beyers, another with eight straight triple-digit figures and, finally, the obvious favorite and defending champ ...
If there were a pack of lions roaming the Belmont backstretch, Red Vine would be the only gazelle. In his last three starts Red Vine has been third in the Pacific Classic, second in the Kelso Handicap, and third in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile. The ...
Spring has sprung, the main track at Aqueduct is open, and Saturday’s $1 million Wood Memorial will be the first Grade 1 race in New York since Private Zone won the Cigar Mile more than four months ago. Before you know it, the racing will move to ...
