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It has been called the greatest rivalry that never was -- two magnificent fillies, as different as two horses can be, destined to never meet on the racetrack. The rivalry between Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra in reality was not between the horses, but their passionate and often zealous fans, who did everything but take up arms against each ...

Racing is a family sport; always has been. The success of many of the industry’s top Thoroughbred breeding farms has been built by handing the baton from one generation to the next. Fans often get into the sport not by randomly stumbling into a racetrack one day, but by having their parents or a family member guide them through the gates for the ...

This column is split into two parts. One is a look at the career of Frosted, with comments from those around him, and the other is a repost of a column I wrote early last year that focused on Kiaran McLaughlin’s daughter Erin. I feel in the wake of Frosted’s emergence as a titan of the Turf and the feelings expressed for the colt and her ...

We haven’t seen anything quite like this in a long time…at least the beginnings of it. But on Aug. 20, California Chrome and Dortmund, who put on quite a show in Saturday’s San Diego Handicap, which could signal a terrific rivalry in the making, will hook up again, with the towering Dortmund trying to avenge his tough head defeat at the hands ...

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, ...

With the connections of American Pharoah participating in a questions and answers Thursday in celebration of the one-year anniversary of their Triple Crown triumph, I thought it was a good time to post some images of that memorable day and the days leading up to it, as well as one personal shot from the Preakness. Jill Baffert photographed yours ...

Judging from everything I’ve seen over the last several months, I was all prepared to go out on a limb and say that Exaggerator was a horse who could not only win the Belmont Stakes but win in dominating fashion, in much the same way that Point Given, Risen Star, Easy Goer, and Bet Twice won their Belmonts. He demonstrated in the Santa Anita ...

It was 40 years ago, June 7, 1976 to be exact, that I attended my first Epsom Derby. That is the follies part of this column. The following year I returned to England for Royal Ascot, and then in 1978, I went all-in and attended both the Derby and Royal Ascot. A few months later I met my wife-to-be and thus ended my annual racing sojourns to ...

Once upon a time, not long ago (actually, only three months ago), Twin Creeks Racing Stables had a hot prospect for the Kentucky Derby named Destin. Having a Derby contender was nothing new to Twin Creeks, which is owned by Randy Gullatt, a one-time aspiring trainer, and Steve Davison, who has always enjoyed putting a bob or two on the ...

Although Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist, the overwhelming 3-5 morning line favorite, looks to be a standout as he takes his eight-race unbeaten streak into the Preakness Stakes, it is still a horse race, with post positions and track conditions playing a role in the scenario and possibly the outcome. With all horse races, there are always ...