Who Do You Like? Betting The Belmont Stakes
With no Triple Crown on the line in this year’s Belmont Stakes, we don’t need to worry about rooting for history and we can focus on making money. The race isn’t called the test of the champion for...
View ArticleBrian Nadeau Handicaps the Belmont Stakes
Belmont Park: The Grade I, $1 million Belmont Stakes at 1 1/2 miles #1 Frac Daddy: Hit-or-miss type was a decent second to fellow entrant Overanalyze in a painfully slow GI Arkansas Derby, then was...
View ArticleWorking for Woody
On Belmont day 2006, the name of one New York Hall of Famer and racing legend was swapped out for another, when the Riva Ridge Stakes became the Woody Stephens. Stephens’ legacy is cemented in his long...
View ArticleThe “somewhat historic” Brooklyn Handicap, 1913
When racing returned to New York State after nearly three years, shuttered due to stringent anti-gambling restrictions, the Brooklyn Handicap, first run in 1887, came with it. With survival, though,...
View ArticleNYRA Board Meets; Still No Action On CEO
New York Racing Association board chairman David Skorton said April 29 he would be “less than happy” if a new chief executive officer had not been named by June 8, day of the Belmont Stakes (gr. I)....
View ArticleMaryland Champion Bold Affair Goes Out A Winner
Charles “Chip” Reed and Mike Zanella first met on a gambling trip organized by a mutual friend. “He said to me, ‘I want you to meet my friend Chip. I think you’re really going to like this guy,’ ”...
View ArticleSamantha Colvin: Runner, swimmer, soldier, jockey
Talk to most of the jockeys around your local racetrack, and you’ll find that they’ve taken one of a few paths to get to where they are. They grew up around horses; they started riding at a young age;...
View ArticleSafety/Integrity Education For Racing Officials To Be Offered At Belmont Park
On June 19 and 20, Belmont Park will host a certificate program for the Racing Officials Accreditation Program. Consisting of one day of general education and one day of job-specific modules, the event...
View Article“#1, he’s a special person”: Mid-Atlantic trainers talk about Ramon Dominguez
As Mid-Atlantic trainers reflected on Friday morning about Ramon Dominguez’s retirement, they talked about his talent as a rider and his commitment to horse racing. But their first reactions were about...
View ArticleSparks fly at NYRA Public Hearing
A public hearing held by the New York Racing Association at Belmont Park June 15 was intended to focus on racing, wagering, and marketing, but within minutes of its 9:30 a.m. EDT start, it turned into...
View ArticleNYRA Outlines Plans for 2013 Saratoga Meet
High quality racing, customer service, and history were the subjects of a New York Racing Association media event June 24 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., at which the organization’s executives detailed...
View ArticleA Big Week for Pennsylvania Racing…But Not At The Track
On the racing calendar, June represents something of a breather. The relentless push to the Triple Crown wraps up early in the month, and the summer racing season is still a few weeks away. While races...
View ArticleDominguez Retirement Highlights Risks, Costs Of Being A Jockey
On Saturday, January 19, Ramon Dominguez won his third consecutive Outstanding Jockey Eclipse Award. He didn’t know it at the time, but the day before, he had ridden in his last race. While his friends...
View ArticleLongines Bringing Elegance To Racing, Worldwide
Earlier this month, when horses gathered in the paddock at Belmont Park before heading to the track for the Belmont Stakes, they walked around an iconic white pine tree, thought to be a part of the...
View ArticleBack With Sam-Son, Pierce Hopes the Queen’s Plate is His Race to Win
“There are no second acts,” wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, “in American lives.” If the relationship between Sam-Son Farm and Malcolm Pierce is any indication, though, Fitzgerald’s oft-quoted words do not,...
View ArticleWith Homebred Filly, Sagamore Hopes For A Great Story
Just about a year ago, Sagamore Farm was wrestling with the unexpected loss of its star three-year-old filly. In a freak training accident at the farm, Millionreasonswhy, the winner of the 2011 Matron...
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“One of the greatest races on record in any country”: the 1913 Suburban Handicap
In June of 1913, the racing world slowly began to return to normal, or at least to a new normal, one in which bookmakers were banned and bets were made furtively, as customers tried to figure out how...
View ArticleYoga and Dining “Take Root” in Carroll Gardens
Last fall, Anna Hieronimus and Elise Kornack were all set to open their new restaurant/yoga studio, on a quiet, beautiful street in Carroll Gardens, awaiting only the final permit from the city. The...
View ArticleMarion Bartoli, Miss Cougar, and Girls Gone Wild
This month’s edition of sexism in sports is brought to you by Insider Louisville, the BBC, Hollywood Park, and the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club. Back in April, Insider Louisville published what was meant,...
View ArticleRacing Museum, Hello Race Fans! Offer Handicapping Advice To Kick Off...
On Saturday at 1 p.m., the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame and handicapper Tom Amello are teaming up to help Saratoga-area racing fans brush up on their handicapping skills before the meet...
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