Al Stall Jr. will send out two of the favorites Saturday night for the Grade 2 Firecracker at Churchill Downs, but the veteran trainer won’t be on hand to saddle either Departing or Medal Count.
Another Royal Ascot meeting, another milestone for trainer Wesley Ward, who continues to defy the widely held notion European horses are simply better on turf than their American counterparts.
Garnet Barnsdale's analysis of the Friday 6/26 card at Mohawk Racetrack.
Brewster Smith's analysis of the Friday 6/26 card at Yonkers Raceway.
Jockey Sheldon Russell didn't get the good news from his doctors he was hoping for on Thursday.
Pete Medhurst has been named as the track announcer at Laurel Park for July while Dave Rodman is in Northern California calling the races at Pleasanton and Sacramento.
Barbados might have been the most exciting 3-year-old not on the Triple Crown trail to race at Gulfstream Park this past winter.
Longtime Thoroughbred trainer Sandy Shulman passed away on Sunday at 78, his family said.
California Chrome’s not-so-excellent British adventure always felt out of sync, from the last-minute, seat-of-the-pants arrangements made with Newmarket trainer Rae Guest at the Dubai World Cup, to the long stretch of time without anyone from the Art Sherman stable setting eyeballs on the colt, to the less than glowing reports of the colt’s Newmarket training that had local observers bending over backward to say something polite, like, “What a lovely horse, and such a nice mover, but a bit light on condition for the task, don’t you think?”
The catalog for the 2015 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale is now available online, featuring 209 horses on offer.
