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…
Good-bye Saratoga
Horse racing has a pulse, and that pulse beats strongest at Saratoga. We felt it Saturday in the roar of the crowd for Rachel Alexandra. We felt it th…
Almost done
It hits me on the first cool morning of the season, a nip in the air and the scent of fall. We're almost done. I try to ignore it. I avoid the inevit…
Running for second
Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin evaluated the field for the 56th running of the Woodward like this: there's Rachel, and then there's everybody else. New Yo…