Archive for 2004

“Attention Shoppers! New York-bred on the Kentucky Derby shopping list”…

Breeders’ Cup 2004. It was a day to remember…

Obviously at this time of year, the Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships are the talk of the track. Everyone is walkin’ around askin’, “Whodoyalike?” Here’s what a few famous and not so famous folks have to say about Saturday’s races at Lone Star…

It’s been said, if you are too big to ride, not smart enough to train or too broke to own a horse, you can always become a clocker…

One of the nicest things about being a turf scribe is the chance to eat lunch with top class people in turf clubs around the globe…

It’s a difference of opinion that makes horse racing…

Racing’s greatness is grounded in the fact that it spans the gamut of emotion from the much-advertised “thrill of victory to the agony of defeat”…

Looking at the handsome Smarty Jones today, it’s hard to believe he once was so disfigured he was known as Quasimodo around the New Jersey Equine Clinic, where he had been brought after smashing up his head and face in a starting gate incident last spring…

Robert La Penta may be a relative newcomer to the horse racing industry, but already he is sitting on the cusp of competing in America’s most prestigious race, the Kentucky Derby, with morning line favorite The Cliff’s Edge…

For hundreds of years Thoroughbred racing has been called the “sport of kings.” When the sport first began, only kings and princes could afford to own racing stables. Gradually, with the passing of time, the faces and bank accounts of racing’s participants have changed…