By Teresa Genaro of Brooklyn Backstretch This Ones for Phil's victory at Gulfstream in the Sunshine Millions Dash over the weekend has occasioned much conversation about the horse's massive improvement...
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Courtesy of Teresa Genaro, Brooklyn Backstretch Last August, Jessica Chapel of Railbird and I were invited by Seth Merrow of Equidaily to appear on his show on Capital OTB to discuss how the Internet is...
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Teresa Genaro, Brooklyn Backstretch I live in a city that takes unabashed glee in the evisceration of its physical history. Tourist and natives alike are hard-pressed to discover any remnants of the Dutch...
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By Teresa Genaro of Brooklyn Backstretch Race fans are a flagellating group; click on almost any racing website, open almost any trade publication, and you’ll find a host of people dissatisfied with some...
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By Teresa Genaro of Brooklyn Backstretch I'm pretty sure that my local card store has already put out their Christmas cards, and while overall I am about as near to thinking about Christmas as I am to...
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By Teresa Genaro, Brooklyn Backstretch What agony to be a fan of the distaff side in November of 1988. Root for the undefeated Personal Ensign, who had beaten colts in the Whitney two months earlier? Or...
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By Teresa Genaro, Brooklyn Backstretch This Saturday is New York Showcase Day at Belmont; seven New York-bred stakes races will be run for more than a million dollar in purses, and a variety of family...
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By Teresa Genaro Racing faces the daunting task of marketing an identical product to two disparate audiences: the gambler and the fan. Racing can't exist without the former, and it shouldn't exist without...
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Courtesy of Teresa Genaro The history of racing in this country reveals a curiously ambivalent attitude towards its female equine athletes. The Old Gray (trotting) Mare may have been racing's first equine...
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