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The Conscience of Thoroughbred Racing
We will be ready for whichever way the wind blows in Oldsmar Saturday. If the rain keeps up, fine–an interesting maiden allowances on turf to
Edited Release — There is a growing awareness of the desire to bring more racial diversity to racing. How is the sport doing? In a
We don’t usually submit an analysis such as this but we were impressed enough with Lisheen’s (5-1) second grass start that she made our Horses
Saturday’s eighth race feature is a preliminary allowances that’s come up very competitive, with sharp stretching out price shot My Sister’s Keeper (10-1); a tough
First and Foremost: A Healthy, Safe and Happy New Year to all the HRI Faithful If turf trips are your thing, there’s lots of video
Under partly sunny skies, the turf course will be in play and we’re looking at one of the last maiden allowances of the juvenile year,
Today’s turf feature also happens to be the day’s headliner, an allowance event for fillies and mares 3 & UP going the two-turn mile. It
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
