by Vic Zast The thought that horse racing needs to be dragged through the coals again following Saturday’s first race must be rattling about in some people’s minds. Just when New York Racing Association...
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by Vic Zast According to one of the two security guards standing watch of the Whitney viewing stand in the early morning hours of a weekend racing day, about 200 visitors each day have climbed the stairs...
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by Vic Zast Everything considered, you’d expect the New York Racing Association to cancel Wandering Dago’s contract for screwing around with barbecue by flavoring pulled pork with sweet basil marinara...
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(Originally published in the June 29/July 6, 2013 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine . Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column. ) By Evan Hammonds - @BH_EHammonds on...
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(Originally published in the June 1, 2013 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine . Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column. ) By Evan Hammonds - @BH_EHammonds on Twitter...
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(Originally published in the April 13, 2013 issue of The Blood-Horse magazine . Feel free to share your own thoughts and opinions at the bottom of the column. ) By Eric Mitchell - @BH_EMitchell on Twitter...
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What a difference a day made. Saratoga Racecourse went from being wall-to-wall with fans on Saturday to being a barren oasis on Sunday. The exodus has begun. Starting Monday you’ll be able to see the horse...
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The retirement of Hansen earlier this week further gutted this crop of three-year-old males and left us with a largely paceless field of 11 in the Travers Stakes (G1). The mid-summer Derby will be a far...
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Suddenly, with the onset of Travers Week, the tone of the racecourse has shifted to horse racing. Saturday alone will feature four graded stakes. The horses that will race are among the best of their generations...
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NYRA scheduled the best horses to race Wednesday in the fifth race instead of the ninth or the tenth. If by next summer the $100,000 Troy isn’t a graded stakes, there is something amiss with the way the...
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