For all of the electricity and euphoria American Pharoah brought to horse racing in 2015, he also drained much of the excitement from the voting for the Eclipse Awards. Horse of the Year honors for 2015 pretty much became a moot point on the ...

As much as American Pharoah changed the lives of so many people around him, there are some things that never change.A new year is almost at hand. Precocious 2-year-olds are about to turn the calendar page and become intriguing 3-year-olds.And Bob ...

Getting 9-1 odds on a horse with a perfect 5-for-5 record would generally be considered as much of a gift as anything you'll find in Santa Claus' sack of goodies.Unless you're talking about the 9-1 price on Nyquist in the first edition of Kentucky ...

NEW YORK -- A gray, overcast November day with sprinkles of rain coming down might not seem the best setting for optimistic thoughts about the coming year, yet the grand promise of 2016 was certainly on display at Aqueduct -- even in a surprising ...

As a new year approaches, Thoroughbred racing faces a strange situation. No matter what happens in 2016, it will be extremely difficult for the sport to top what happened this year.That's because 2015 served a valuable lesson in the power of ...

This coming weekend, horses across the country will be competing in stakes races. New champions will be crowned in January.In a few more months, talk about the 2016 Triple Crown will become louder and more prevalent as a new crop of stars takes ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- At some point soon, either the New York Mets or the Kansas City Royals will be popping bottles, spraying each other with champagne, and pretty much acting like they did when they were Little Leaguers.Whenever and wherever that ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- The first day of action at the Breeders' Cup is not usually the place you'll find a superstar colt.It's almost always a filly or mare who steals the show in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Distaff.Yet on the initial day of the first ...

Anything can, and usually does, happen when the starting gates open in a horse race. Yet trainer Kiaran McLaughlin is pretty insistent that history not repeat itself with Frosted, especially with $5 million on the line."We will not be chasing ...

Trainer Christophe Clement was delighted to see an old friend earlier this month. It was a gray, soggy day at Belmont Park, but that could not dampen Clement's spirits as, for a second year in a row, he stood beaming in the winner's circle alongside ...