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Joe Clancy Grinding Speed evidently didn’t mind falling on his face at My Lady’s Manor as the timber veteran got off the deck to win his next race, Saturday’s Virginia Gold Cup, in a romp at Great Meadow Race Course in The Plains, Va.
Too much Orb? Not enough Orb? Just the right amount Orb? When you run a racing website with just three writers, you ask about the formula – all the time.
Betting? There’s betting? There’s betting. In a rarity for American jump racing, you can put your money down for real at the Virginia Gold Cup meeting Saturday at Great Meadow.
While the rest of Thoroughbred racing aims its attention at Churchill Downs Saturday, the steeplechase set heads to Virginia for another rite of the first Saturday in May – the Virginia Gold Cup at Great Meadow Race Course in The Plains.
The race to win the Kentucky Derby won’t be decided until Saturday evening, but the contest for best face is over. Giant Finish wins, by a giant margin. OK, Will Take Charge is in the mix, but…
Twenty owners will watch their horses run in the Kentucky Derby Saturday. Just one will know what it feels like to win. And that’s the beauty of the country’s most important Thoroughbred race.
One or two posts a week. After getting a few columns from our site linked to The Rail, a Thoroughbred racing blog section of The New York Times website, in 2011-12, I asked about being a regular contributor. Joe Drape and Melissa Hoppert, the NYT’s racing writers, said yes and there’s my byline on the … Read more
The key to the Maryland Hunt Cup came early Saturday, and became truly evident only in hindsight.
In 24 hours we’ll know if. . .Guts For Garters is as good as he looks, Twill Do can join the immortals as a three-time winner, 15 horses can put on a show worthy of the overflow entry box, Battle Op can get over the hump, experience counts for Bon Caddo, Professor Maxwell was just unlucky last year.
No colic, no foot abscess, no cough, no high nail from a shoeing, no flat tire on the van. And no defeats. For seven consecutive years, McDynamo went to American steeplechasing’s richest race meet – the Far Hills Races in New Jersey – and delivered.
