{Friday, July 31, 2009} Rachel Still Possible For Saratoga Hope sprang eternal on the backside of Saratoga Race Course on Wednesday morning as it has for 141 years on opening day. Horsemen rubbed the legs of the 2-year-old fillies

{Thursday, July 30, 2009} Hot Dixie Chick stars in Schuylerville Grace Stables' HOT DIXIE CHICK (Dixie Union) stamped herself as a star in the making with a smashing 6 1/4-length victory in Wednesday's $111,000 Schuylerville S. (G3) at

{Tuesday, July 28, 2009} SARATOGA HELPED PLETCHER MAKE HIS NAME Thirteen years ago, Todd Pletcher left the comfortable side of trainer D. Wayne Lukas and ventured out on his own in the unpredictable world of horse racing. He had spent eight

{Monday, July 27, 2009} Saratoga set for 141st racing season Saratoga Race Course's 36-day meet will get off to a strong start on Wednesday with a card highlighted by full fields on both dirt and turf, two-year-old races, and two stakes,

{Sunday, July 26, 2009} Another Opening, Another Very Big Show Leaving Saratoga Gaming and Raceway yesterday, the air was charged. I mean you can feel it now. It was palpable. Some of the regulars were lamenting getaway Saturday’s

{Saturday, July 25, 2009} BELMONT WINNER COULD RUN DOWN RACHEL AT HASKELL


July 25, 2009

RACHEL Alexandra might be the most glamorous horse in America today, but anyone who thinks she is a cinch to waltz off with next week's

{Friday, July 24, 2009} Saratoga Offers Late Pick-4 The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) has announced that it will offer a $500,000 Guaranteed Late Pick 4 Saturdays at Saratoga Race Course during the 2009 meet. The meet begins

{Thursday, July 23, 2009} Competitive field of eight entered in CCA Oaks Boasting a roster of past champions that reads like a who's who of sophomore fillies -- from Vagrancy and Top Flight to Shuvee and Ruffian, Davona Dale and Sky Beauty

{Tuesday, July 21, 2009} Rachel drills six furlongs at Saratoga Rachel Alexandra, who was relocated to Saratoga after winning the Mother Goose in stakes-record time June 27, worked for the third consecutive Monday over the Oklahoma

{Monday, July 20, 2009} This Already In - Rachel Alexandra, Horse of the Year (SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – July 20, 2009) The Cartier Racing Awards, presented each November to the year’s best European-raced thoroughbreds, are decided by

{Sunday, July 19, 2009} Saratoga to offer purse incentives Saratoga purses will increase significantly based on the number of horses starting in each race, according to the new 2009 purse incentive program announced Friday by the New

{Saturday, July 18, 2009} U.S. STEWARDS NEVER QUESTION DUBIOUS JOCKEY TACTICS July 18, 2009 --

ONE OF the puzzling omissions of American racing administration is the stewards' refusal to hold jockeys accountable for how they ride

{Friday, July 17, 2009} Asmussen suspended for six months GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - The Lone Star Park board of stewards on Thursday suspended trainer Steve Asmussen six months and fined him $1,500 for a 2008 positive test for a lidocaine

{Thursday, July 16, 2009} IEAH Says I Want Revenge Injury Not Disclosed IEAH Stables has filed court documents claiming that David Lanzman failed to disclose injuries to I Want Revenge that eventually led to the 3-year-old colt being

{Tuesday, July 14, 2009} Guess Who's Not Coming To Dinner? Not to be a killjoy, but the fact is some of the best horses in the country likely will not be showing up at the Breeders' Cup this year. The following are those horses who

{Monday, July 13, 2009} BEST 2009 PERFORMANCES (SO FAR) Once the first half of the year is over, it's become traditional for this column to rank the Top 10 performances by a Thoroughbred in this country so far since Jan. 1.

{Sunday, July 12, 2009} Gelding "Passion" Making Big Strides CAN a horse with a 20-length lead on the field convert it into one of the most exciting races of the year? He certainly can if his name is Presious Passion, a six-year-old chestnut

{Friday, July 10, 2009} Arlington Handicap seems like old times ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Stream Cat is 6. So is Just as Well. Seven-year-old Cosmonaut is here, too, and 9-year-old Silverfoot is almost a child of the dim, dark 1990s.

{Thursday, July 09, 2009} O'NEILL GUNS FOR FIFTH GOLD CUP WIN Trainer Doug O’Neill, king of the Hollywood Gold Cup in recent years, shoots for his fifth victory since 2002 with Informed in the $700,000 Grade I handicap at 1 ¼ miles on Cushion

{Tuesday, July 07, 2009} Churchill meet ends with buzz about night racing LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A highly eventful spring meet at Churchill Downs came to an end Sunday with the lingering question of what track officials intend to do about

{Monday, July 06, 2009} Munnings bests trio of rivals in Tom Fool The road to becoming just the fourth three-year-old to capture Sunday's $185,000 Tom Fool H. (G2) at Belmont Park, which dates to 1975, became much easier for MUNNINGS

{Sunday, July 05, 2009} ZENYATTA-RACHEL SHOWDOWN NEEDS TO HAPPEN After Zenyatta won the Vanity Handicap at Hollywood Park last weekend to run her record to 11-0, owner Jerry Moss was asked if he'd be receptive to sending his brilliant

{Saturday, July 04, 2009} Rachel Could Carve Out Place In History She probably won’t have Washington and Idaho on her non-conference schedule, probably won’t confine herself to picking the cherries from the low branches. No pie or cake

{Friday, July 03, 2009} Mine That Bird's People Made The Right Call SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY, July 1, 2009--Calvin Borel’s loss of his Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird as a future mount was inevitable and probably the best scenario

{Thursday, July 02, 2009} Borel taken off Mine That Bird LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird will have a new jockey when he makes his next start on Aug. 1 in the $750,000 West Virginia Derby at Mountaineer