It wasn’t a particularly distinguished field that lined up in Saturday’s Vanity Handicap to face defending champ Zenyatta. Just a couple of Grade 2 winners to try to derail her undefeated march to immortality.
But it was a virtual Murderers’ Row compared to the opposition faced by Rachel Alexandra in the Mother Goose that same day; [...]
Saturday’s Stephen Foster Handicap (G1) at Churchill Downs featured a salty crew of Grade 1-winning handicap horses…
No, wait a minute. In fact, it didn’t include even one horse that had ever won a Grade 1 event on the main track. The hard-hitting Einstein had, of course, scored at the highest level on the lawn and [...]
The handsome young fellow in the video below almost immediately earned the nickname “Rocket” from the good folks at Country Life Farm who are taking care of him and his mother, The Big Four Oh. Seems he likes to zoom around his mom, leaving her exhausted.
When we were there the other day, four mare-foal sets [...]
Seemed like a good day in the offing when the buglers hit “Fugue for Tinhorns” early in the day at Belmont (”Got your horse right here, his name is Paul Revere…”)
And, indeed, it was: some big, front-running efforts on the main track (Fabulous Strike in the True North, Gabby’s Golden Gal upsetting the Acorn), a [...]
A friend of mine told me this story: A few years ago, he paid $1,000 for a yearling. He moved heaven and earth to have the horse ready to run when two year-old races in Maryland began (in April). Racing against the small group of Maryland two year-olds ready so soon, the horse recorded a [...]
