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It is the Fourth of July weekend and the New York Racing Association thankfully is still running the historic and prestigious Suburban Handicap, even if the Graded Stakes Committee is still asleep keeping it a grade II event, despite its history, as the second leg of the Handicap Triple Crown, and being won by such notables as Easy Goer, ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman On Saturday, Gulfstream Park will host the ''Summit of Speed,'' an exciting day of sprinting that includes nine stakes races. There are so many great races to handicap that I've decided to cover more racing action than usual and handicap four races, with a focus on trying to hit some ...

If you go back through the 20th century, the typical equine hero was a 3-year-old or 4-year-old male who excelled at our classic distance of 1 1/4 miles. There were the rare exceptions like geldings Kelso, John Henry, Forego, Armed, Lava Man, and Exterminator, who raced at ages ranging from 6-years-old to 9-years-old, and a handful of fillies and ...

Every year there is a certain amount of hand-wringing from sellers and sales companies in anticipation of the coming yearling sales season. Players hone in on stock market charts, commodity prices, and global economic affairs, seeking clues as to how their yearling crop may sell.The Dow Jones average goes up 200 points one day; then “Brexit” ...

No one is expecting all the big names in racing to make the Breeders’ Cup Classic, but one can always hope, especially when you have a year like this with such a wide variety of talent gearing up for a run at America’s richest horse race. Here then is the Classic dream field that potentially could be assembled at Santa Anita on Nov. 5. With ...

Current Standings1 Keelerman - 9222 Lola (defending champion) - 8773 Porter - 8764 latenite - 8714 trackjack - 8716 Secretariat - 8707 Aluminaut - 8538 JJ the TV wathcer - 8429 fitzpony - 82610 MDG - 81511 Eric Rickard - 81012 Betty S - 80713 Magnoliagirl - 79414 Van Horn - 78915 Riskaverse - 78616 Quinnbt - 77417 Akita Girl - 73517 MaryZinke - ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Twitter: @J_Keelerman The Ohio Derby at Thistledown has been a significant race for a long time. It was a grade II for more than 30 years and has been won by such notable runners as Skip Away, Broad Brush, Lost Code, King Glorious, and Milwaukee Brew, and although the race has lost some prestige in recent ...

Eva Cassidy had the voice of an angel. Her jazz/blues rendition of “Over the Rainbow” brought people to tears. She never sought fame, and in fact was painfully shy about singing in public. To her, it was all about the music and expressing herself the only way she knew how…with passion. She would sing in small clubs and sold tapes of her music from ...

Racing at Ascot Racecourse began in 1711, and it’s been a pretty big deal ever since with the Royal Ascot meeting rooted in a long-standing British tradition of quality racing with the Royal Family on hand. When thinking of the traditional pageantry and color of Thoroughbred racing, visions of the Queen arriving by Royal procession, men in morning ...

The following was written by my daughter Mandy and first appeared in the May 3, 2010 issue of Stride magazine,, then reprinted on this blog. It is the greatest Father’s Day gift I have ever received and still gets me all choked up, and that is why I am posting it again. It's still ''Hangin' With Haskin,” but this time written by the better ...