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Tom Law 
D. Wayne Lukas likes to joke that he’s made a career running horses where they don’t belong. Such sentiment only seems half true, perhaps only for the latter parts of the Hall of Fame trainer’s career that includes scores of classic and Grade 1 victories. The 86-year-old Lukas added to his legend Friday in the … Read more
Lightning flashed and thunder shook the windows of my Butchertown Airbnb apartment before sunrise Tuesday. Then the rain came, after training hours began but before the half-hour window from 7:30 to 8 a.m. designated for the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks runners. Todd Pletcher thought about sending Mo Donegal, Charge It and Pioneer Of Medina, … Read more
The best week of the year – not counting every week at Saratoga – has finally arrived. I’m ready for the 80-mile trek from Lexington to Louisville for the 148th Kentucky Derby. The first came by way of Albany to Cincinnati and down to Louisville, way back in 1998, as a sportswriter for the hometown … Read more
March and critical Kentucky Derby prep season arrived in full force last week and continues on this week with the Tampa Bay Derby taking center stage.
Another memorable weekend in the books – the first of March – and we’re speeding toward the Triple Crown, the start of the American steeplechase season and Saratoga on the distant horizon.
Welcome to March. Well, at least welcome to the almost first week of March.
The final Saturday of February, almost time for some March Madness but first another major Kentucky Derby prep on one of Oaklawn Park’s biggest days of the year.
President’s Day. Quick, who’s your favorite president? No, no, no, not any of the recent ones, think back, the ones you wanted to learn about, read about, hear what they said.
A little late (Tom went ice fishing) but here we go. The Saturday Special for February 19. Fair Grounds is the key card and The Saratoga Special handicappers have given you all the winners. Enjoy.
Well, that was a week. From the Eclipse Awards to necropsy reports of the ill-fated Kentucky Derby “winner,” there certainly was plenty to talk, whine and opine about. What better way to transition out of that phase than into some actual racing.
