Tom Law

The biggest events on the Prairie Meadows Racetrack’s racing calendar were carded last weekend and the progeny of Claiborne Farm’s First Samurai brought home a pair of graded stakes trophies.

Churchill Downs and Santa Anita Park wrapped up spring-summer meetings over the weekend that saw plenty of interesting racing that proved there is plenty of life after the spring classics.

Pioneerof the Nile kept hold of the top spot on North America’s second-crop sire list with a pair of stakes victories on a weekend that also saw some first-crop stallions start to assert themselves.

The longest day of the year is in the books and the countdown to the best summer racing on both coasts continues in earnest.

Royal Ascot wraps its meeting Saturday and relative shortage of top-tier races here in the U.S. with only three graded heats from coast to coast. In between and in other corners there are plenty of interesting races to watch and wager on, from Belmont to Santa Anita and Delaware to Pleasanton.

The *Ribot sire line is hanging on by a thread North America, but last weekend’s results reminded everyone that it’s not gone the way of the dodo quite yet.

Randy Morse stood on the clocker’s stand on the backside of Churchill Downs Tuesday morning, a few days after the up-and-coming Moonshine Mullin won the Stephen Foster Handicap to give the veteran trainer a career milestone victory.

Halfway past the month that marks the halfway point of the year means it’s not too early to start dreaming about Saratoga.

There are Grade 1 winners and then there are classic winners and Tonalist’s gritty victory in the Belmont Stakes filled out the last remaining hole in Tapit’s spectacular resume.