Expect the unexpected
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — Moments before the Arkansas Derby, word of the Blue Grass Stakes winner reached those standing in the owner/trainer area near…
Now casting at Oaklawn
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — These are the buzz horses of the weekend: Zenyatta on Friday, and Noble's Promise on Saturday. As expected, the unbeaten Zeny…
Zenyatta commands attention
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. -- There's this race. It's called the Arkansas Derby. Nine horses are entered to run in it on Saturday. Around here, you wouldn't ne…
Goosebumps welcome
ARCADIA, CALIF -- Bob Baffert stood in the middle of a media cluster at Clocker's Corner on Tuesday morning and enthusiastically rambled on about a ru…
Peppermints please
ARCADIA, CALIF -- Sometimes everything falls into place. You never know when it might happen, but when it does, you breathe a sigh of relief. That's…
Passion
MIDAIR, U.S.A. - As a child, I lived and breathed racing. I printed out Blood-Horse articles and kept them in a scrapbook (along with illustrations by…
Zenyatta
ARCADIA, Calif. -- Mike Smith checked in with the boys on the ESPN desk, pulling the unbeaten Zenyatta up from a 13th straight triumph. "She's good e…
Hawthorne
CICERO, Ill. -- I'm cranking out assignments at Hawthorne Race Course today -- coverage of a novel twilight race card, update on injured jockey Michae…
Super
ELMONT, NY -- Tim Ice brought Independence War to Belmont Park after a frustrating Saratoga season for the Red Bullet gelding. Among a group of three …
Homecoming
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL. -- There are new tables on the apron, they've upgraded the seating in the clubhouse boxes, and I'm standing in the horsemen's v…