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The final days of 2017 are here and with them the time to look back at the most well read stories here at This Is Horse Racing. Consider it our version of a Year in Review with a bit of a twist since we don’t use a formula, poll the staff or some other unspoken approach.
Nancy Kelly will retire from her full-time duties at The Jockey Club at the end of the year, concluding a more than three-decade run as a goodwill ambassador for the organization and a key fundraiser for two vital industry charitable groups.
Mark Cusano gave up one career that required working most weekends nearly four decades ago for another that did just about the same and he doesn’t look back with even the slightest tinge of regret.
Claiborne Farm’s Hall of Famer Lure passed away Wednesday at the age of 28, triggering tributes and look backs at the career of the legendary two-time winner of the Breeders’ Cup Mile.
I have been in Australia for nearly three months as part of the Godolphin Flying Start program. The stint could not have been timed more perfectly, as I have been privileged to see Winx run five times in part of her astonishing campaign.
Part of Thoroughbred racing in one way or another since the 1930s, Maryland’s iconic Fair Hill property is home to plenty of horse activity – racing, training, eventing, showing, fox hunting, trail riding and everything else in between. New efforts are underway to substantially upgrade the outdoor event space at Fair Hill to host a … Read more
Take notes they said. Record or write down all the stories he tells you. When people told me that as I was growing older, I never fully understood the weight behind it.
“He’s 75, he’s forgotten more than most people in this game will ever learn,” we’d say.
It’s about 4:40 in the afternoon Travers Day and the field is heading from the paddock to the track for the Grade 1 Sword Dancer. I’m covering the race for The Saratoga Special and I’m fixated on the Aiden O’Brien runner Idaho.
Around every corner, tucked into a stall here and there and in barns across Nelson Avenue at the harness track are the horses trained, owned, bred and sometimes even ridden by the men and women whose names don’t get the headlines and full features in this or any publication.
It’s a Friday morning, the grass is still covered by a blanket of morning dew while the sun rises giving the grandstands of Saratoga Race Course an orange glow, and I can’t help but feel like I’m in a movie.
