Betting handle at Hawthorne tumbled again during the fall-winter racing season that ended Saturday, with all-sources average daily handle down more than 20 percent after a rebound season a year ago.
Jeremey Day's analysis of the Wednesday 1/6 card at Northfield Park.
Mary Simon, a racing historian and writer, has been named the Eclipse Award winner in the audio/multimedia Internet category for a piece that ran on the Daily Racing Form website examining 1915 Kentucky Derby winner Regret and her connections, according to the administrators of the awards.
Multiple stakes-winning New York-bred mares La Verdad and Willet are both expected to race once or twice more before heading to the breeding shed in a few months.
Flexibility, a 4 1/4-length winner of the Grade 3 Jerome Stakes last Saturday, could stay on the New York road to the Kentucky Derby, according to trainer Chad Brown.
Kendrick Carmouche probably could have started riding in New York earlier than he did. He just wanted to make sure that when he arrived, he was going to succeed.
2015 In Memoriam: A Photographic Tribute by Barbara Livingston
The Ireland-based trainer Jeremy Noseda has not been shy about sending horses to America to race, but usually the spots are more ambitious than a $67,000 first-level allowance race over Aqueduct's inner track in early January. But there is a reason Noseda has Wickedly Smart entered in Thursday's feature for older fillies and mares at Aqueduct, which is scheduled for 1 1/16 miles.
When California Chrome starts in Saturday's $200,000 San Pasqual Stakes at Santa Anita, his first race in more than nine months, he will be 11 weeks from his first major goal of the year, the $10 million Dubai World Cup in the United Arab Emirates on March 26.
The possibility of a wet track adds a twist to a pick six sequence Thursday at Santa Anita that looks enticing come rain or shine.
