{Tuesday, June 29, 2010} THE QUOTE AND THE RABBIT Last Saturday's five-filly Mother Goose Stakes at Belmont Park clearly was not the Mother of All Gooses (the '91 renewal in which Meadow Star nosed Lite Light will forever hold that distinction),

{Sunday, June 27, 2010} Devil May Care scores in Mother Goose Glencrest Farm's DEVIL MAY CARE (Malibu Moon) tracked to the outside of pacesetter and stablemate Katy Now (Tiznow) in Saturday's $243,750 Mother Goose S. (G1) at Belmont Park,

{Friday, June 25, 2010}  THE STREAK STANDS Another close call... Among my favorite all-time handicapping achievements was nailing 10 straight winners as the lead horse picker for 20 years at the New York Post.

{Thursday, June 24, 2010} Pletcher aims three at Mother Goose Trainer Todd Pletcher will celebrate his 43rd birthday on Saturday. It looks like he wants to give himself a Grade 1 victory as a present. Pletcher on Wednesday entered three

{Tuesday, June 22, 2010} CLOSE CALL
by John Piesen  Talk about a close call. Let us return to the Belmont Stakes. In case you forgot, a horse named Drosselmeyer won the race at $28 going away under Mike Smith,

{Monday, June 21, 2010} UNREQUITED RIVALRY The strict definition of rivalry requires that two individuals or teams of equal ability face each other in competition for the same goal. In horse racing, this standard has produced such matches

{Sunday, June 20, 2010} Monmouth Exceeding Expectations The plan was to breathe life back into New Jersey’s struggling horse racing industry. And even though it is too early to tell if the resuscitation

{Friday, June 18, 2010} WHERE’S THE RESPECT?
by John Piesen In case you missed it, and I’d say that’s a distinct possibility, the NTRA this week released Its latest Top Ten poll, and the results are --to put it mildly

{Thursday, June 17, 2010} EARLY REFLECTIONS ON THE MONMOUTH EXPERIMENT Bob Kulina has read and heard the naysayers, but don’t think for a moment that it will deter him from following through with the game plan: “You’re in a much better position

{Tuesday, June 15, 2010} HAIL TO THE QUEEN Despite the passage of time, the racing community can not help but recall the reason Rachel Alexandra was voted Horse of the Year over Zenyatta

{Sunday, June 13, 2010} CHURCHILL'S BIG SATURDAY Blame game in Stephen Foster In a precursor of what might come in the November 6 Breeders' Cup Classic (G1), Adele Dilschneider and Claiborne Farm's homebred BLAME

{Friday, June 11, 2010}   WHERE THE ELITE MEET We are three weeks into the Elite Meet at Monmouth Park...and sofarsogood. At least as far as the bottom line is concerned. Attendance and handle are up double-digits across the

{Thursday, June 10, 2010} DON'T FROWN ON MY CROWN Another Triple Crown season is in the books and for that most people are thankful. It seems many of them didn’t like the 2010 edition all that much. As if no one ever bet on a slow horse

{Monday, June 07, 2010} INCONCLUSIVE TRIPLE CROWN GOOD FOR RACING Bill Casner of Flower Mound and Kenny Troutt of Dallas transformed the crown into a Stetson. The Triple Crown series concluded Saturday just as it began, with a victory

{Sunday, June 06, 2010} ZITO HOPING FOR BETTER THINGS For Nick Zito, great expectations brought great disappointment in Saturday's 142nd Belmont Stakes, as the Hall of Fame trainer had to settle for a second and an eighth-place finish

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{Thursday, June 03, 2010} PLETCHER SNEAKS INTO BELMONT MIX Just when the Belmont Stakes field seemed set to go with 11 horses, America's leading trainer, Todd Pletcher, jumped out of the woodwork and said: "Make it 12. Count me in!" His

{Tuesday, June 01, 2010} THE TODDSTER
by John Piesen In all my years dealing with Todd Pletcher, from his days with Wayne Lukas to the present day, I've never had a problem with him. So what does the man have against me? Take the