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The Conscience of Thoroughbred Racing
There are two choices for fans and bettors of notable interest this weekend and neither racing event is being staged in a big city near
This year, the penultimate Saturday of the Saratoga race meet would feature the session’s lynchpin, the Travers ‘Midsummer Derby’ Stakes. But it’s 2020: Been there,
Before anyone believes that half of Saturday’s Empire 6 Jackpot featuring five graded stakes contains three stand-out singles, think all the way back to last
As Thoroughbred fans and players look forward to Wednesday’s resumption of racing at Keeneland Race Course, as do we, I am also lamenting the absence
Two of those four graded stakes at Churchill Downs, the Stephen Foster and Fleur de Lis, have Breeders’ Cup implications as win-and-in events. Purses have
When the sports world stopped in the wake of the pandemic, and with bigger fish to fry, sports media was caught up in the overload,
The cards here since racing returned to the Free State have been challenging, to say the least, and so we found a special-weights two-turner that
It hasn’t been a good week for a couple of Hall of Fame trainers, a Hall of Fame jockey–or for an award-winning turf writer for
I’m a big fan of opening days. And given today’s realities, more so now than ever. Santa Anita opens today; Churchill Downs Saturday and New
April 23, 2020, 5:01 pm: Today Tampa Bay Downs received permission to extend their meeting through May 30. The meet was scheduled to end Sunday,
New York-based rainers support eliminating race-day Lasix By Karen M. Johnson for NYRA Press — The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) will prohibit the use
As a rule we don’t choose a race for special-weight maidens to highlight be the trip on first-timer The Cairo Kid (2-1) was so fascinating
Interesting maiden allowances on turf at Tampa today, an occurrence that has contributed to their bottom line success. They are 3-year-olds going a mile; two
Today’s allowance feature for three year old turf fillies is a beauty with a least five of the nine entrants having a chance to win
What to do? An interesting field of three year old fillies going a flat mile in an NX1 allowances with five of the fillies recently
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