Sean Clancy

Week four of the spring season. Happy Orthodox Easter. The Masters turns the corner. The Jenny Wiley and the Lexington showcase the Saturday card at Keeneland. The flag drops on the Maryland timber circuit with the historic My Lady’s Manor while the Blue Ridge Point-to-Point anchors the Virginia tour. Four races at the Manor and … Read more

Week two. At Aiken, Stephen Mulqueen doubled, steering St James The Great for Keri Brion to win the Imperial Cup and guiding first-time starter Claramente for Todd McKenna to win the filly/mare maiden hurdle. Mulqueen finished in a three-way tie for second in last year’s standings. Bernie Dalton and Freddie Procter, tied with Mulqueen in … Read more

Did you clean out the attic? Go on that vacation? Read those books?   Well, it’s too late now. The 2026 spring steeplechase season is upon us yet again. Time flies. Frenetic race season. Fast off season. Doesn’t seem that long ago when Fil Dor galloped off into the fading sunset with an upset score … Read more

Once more unto the breach. I’m sure I wrote that last year as well. Certainly, feels that way as several members of the Big Brother house have fallen to the vagaries of Cheltenham. Sore throats and empty wallets make bad bedfellows. But we carry on, we power through. Once more. One more day and it … Read more

Halftime. Two down. Two to go. Wind and rain moving in to drape proper chasing weather on top of proper racing. The Willie Mullins train chugs along with three Grade 1 scores, including the small but mighty Il Etait Temps picking up where favorite Majborough left off, birch splintering, frame rocking, in the BetMGM Queen … Read more

The reception. That’s what it is about, always been about. In all places, at all times during the sport’s biggest week. The first, for me, was when Istabraq pulled up early in his final Champion Hurdle. Standing at the top of the hill, favorite out, money gone, as the new generation disappeared in the distance, … Read more

And here we are. Yet again. The day of days. The week of weeks. The show of shows. Cheltenham. A place that began to seer into my racing soul way back in 2002. Sharing two bunk beds in the Hunter’s Lodge, breakfast, lunch and dinner in the stable canteen, a pile of Racing Posts to … Read more

Week two of the fall season. The jumpers roll up or down Route 29 or across I-64 for the Foxfield Fall Races Sunday in Charlottesville, Va. It’s the 47th time for the fall standard which has hosted the best in the sport – Zaccio, Sailor’s Clue, Double Reefed, Victorian Hill to name a few – and will … Read more

And then there were none. The final edition of The Saratoga Special for 2025. Le Mehana tries to make it three in a row in the Flower Bowl. Percy’s Bar rolls in from Keeneland for the Spinaway. Mindframe takes on a ring of stars in the Jockey Club Gold Cup Sunday. From Scylla to Scotland, … Read more