In memory of, or perhaps with apologies to, Dick Francis.
I pulled the Jaguar round behind the barns and killed the engine.
Mr. O’Rourke had been wrong about many things in his life, but he’d got one thing exactly right. He had told me that the lads at the yard would be considerably less than pleased when [...]
In accepting the Rachel Alexandra-earned Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year, Jess Jackson noted that he and Jerry and Ann Moss — owners of second place finisher Zenyatta — spoke frequently during the year.
Apparently, he has since lost the Mosses’ number.
In a sport with a long, rich history of self-serving publicity stunts, Jackson’s latest [...]
One of the biggest stories in racing these last few weeks — finally supplanted by the $5 million Rachel-Zenyatta challenge (the bet here is that one or both horses will not go to the post in the Apple Blossom) — has been the decision by jockeys at Penn National to boycott races in which owner [...]
