Ah, I love the Belmont Stakes! It is my favorite American race at one of my favorite distances, the classic mile & a half. There aren’t many of these around in this day and age of fast preps and even faster careers of both horse and man. I have never been much of a sprinting [...]
John Servis, trainer of Smarty Jones says of that horse’s prep for the Preakness: “Really, I think the secret is you don’t do a whole lot. They ran a mile and a quarter two weeks ago, so they’re not going to get too much more fit than that. From a physical standpoint, I thought my horse [...]
From the Lexington Herald-Leader: “There’s on the fence, and there’s on the fence,” Borel said at Churchill Downs on Wednesday. “You know, to me, if you can get right on it, there is traction there. But if you get a half a horse off of it, (the traction) is good and bad, and then they’ll start bobbling, [...]
It has always blown my mind how Thoroughbred trainers hate the one hole so at the starting gate. Bob Baffert is certainly not thrilled about his horse, Lookin At Lucky, having to start from that position! He writes: “Once you get in there, if you are shuffled back one time, then you’ll get shuffled back a second, [...]
I have either trained or been around racehorses for 30+ years and have to say how shocked I was in finally being able to view a horse racing movie that had the very minimum of goofs in it. Amazing! ESPN and ABC aired one of the most realistic racing movies of all time in the [...]
As a youngster, I was seduced into the mysticism of the “juiced” race horse. I mean, the stereotype that race horses can be drugged into winning races has permeated every aspect of our dear sport since long ago. It can almost be considered mandatory for every plot in horse racing fiction, be it a novel, [...]