Tom Law

Ready or not, the main event and closing act have arrived. The 155th running of the Grade 1, $1.5 million Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets headlines a spectacular card featuring nine graded stakes Saturday at Belmont Park. The 1 ½-mile Belmont, truly the Test of the Champion, headlines the day with champion Forte, Preakness … Read more

The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival kicks off Friday, after a one-day delay due to poor air quality in the New York Metropolitan area forcing a cancellation of racing Thursday. Things kick into gear in a big way Friday, with five stakes on an 11-race card including a trio of Grade 1 events with the New … Read more

Nobody takes being a jockey more seriously than John Velazquez. He’s 34 years into a Hall of Fame career, a winner of 6,507 races, a leader in every jockeys’ room he hangs his saddles. So when he says watching another jockey fall is ”a knife to your heart” you believe him. When Havnameltdown was fatally … Read more

Hi Ho Pimlico. It’s Preakness Day and the second jewel of the Triple Crown, with all eyes on Kentucky Derby Mage to see if he can add a second classic and make a run at history in three weeks. The son of Good Magic scored a 15-1 upset two weeks ago in Louisville and won’t … Read more

The Triple Crown makes its way to the Mid-Atlantic for one of racing’s great traditions, Preakness Stakes Week. Black-Eyed Susan Day kicks off the weekend, with full fields for most of the day’s stakes including the headliner. All eyes on the undefeated Faiza in the $300,000 Black-Eyed Susan as she ships in from Southern California … Read more

The end of the National Steeplechase Association’s spring slate is right around the corner and the jumpers double up Saturday, heading to Nashville’s Percy Warner Park for the 82nd Iroquois Steeplechase and to Kennett Square, Pa., for the Willowdale Races. The Iroquois card features seven races – three stakes – worth $445,000, the richest meet … Read more

Turn the page. Another memorable Kentucky Derby in the books – for both the right and a few wrong reasons – and time to look ahead to next week’s Preakness Stakes. If it were only that simple. Some of the shrapnel from Derby Week remains, with five scratches including the morning-line favorite and an uncomfortable … Read more

Ramiro Restrepo and Gustavo Delgado Jr. combed the sales grounds before last year’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May sale of 2-year-olds and settled on two prospects they thought could work and fit their budget. Hip 592, a colt from the first crop of champion Good Magic, went through the ring first and about a half-hour before Hip … Read more

The big day is finally here, the 149th Kentucky Derby and all its pomp and circumstance. All the time watching the countdown clocks and checking those Derby watch lists and top 10s, dozens, 20s and all don’t really matter since it’s time to put up or, you know. Churchill Downs rolled out a stacked card … Read more

Need a little betting advice for this year’s Kentucky Derby? This Is Horse Racing contributor and native Kentuckian John Cox might have just the trick. Check out John’s strategy … Happy Derby Week! I wanted to share with friends a Kentucky Derby bet I fire on every year, which is a set of $1 exactas. … Read more