Racing News
4-Way Race for Oaklawn Riding Title; Diodoro Leads Trainers, Asmussen Slumps
By Noel Michaels Four weeks of racing remain at Oaklawn Park, and its the best four weeks of the meet when fields will be the fullest, the competition strongest, and the handicapping its most chall...
4-Way Race for Oaklawn Riding Title; Diodoro Leads Trainers, Asmussen Slumps
By Noel Michaels Four weeks of racing remain at Oaklawn Park, and its the best four weeks of the meet when fields will be the fullest, the competition strongest, and the handicapping its most chall...
Thousand Words, Improbable Seek Big Wins for Baffert at Oaklawn
By Lynne Snierson Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert is loaded for bear in the two stakes on Saturdays 12-race card at Oaklawn Park with Kentucky Derby (G1) hopeful Thousand Words in the $200,000 Oak...
7 Handicapping Tips for a New Track
Handicapping Tips for a New Track By Ray Wallin If you are like me you are a creature of habit. You have a meet or two that you follow and play religiously and rarely deviate from that. For me...
Stallion Stories: J.O. Tobin
Award-winning author Margaret Ransom resumes her series of Stallion Stories, which occasionally focuses on geldings. Previous subjects in the series include Seattle Slew, Silver Charm, Grindstone, Sto...
Preakness update: No new date, but InfieldFest canceled
By Richard Rosenblatt Theres no new date for the Preakness Stakes (G1) yet, but the Maryland Jockey Club and The Stronach Group said theyre continuing to work with our key stakeholders to exp...
From bloodthirsty to blueblood: Countess Margit Batthyany used her racehorses to draw a veil over her appalling past
By Maryjean Wall Countess Margit Batthyany was once the most powerful woman in European racing, winning the Prix de lArc de Triomphe in 1972 with the filly, San San, and the year before that, the F...
Live Racing Becoming a Thing of the Past
By Richard Rosenblatt Live racing in the United States continues to dwindle with the closing of a few more racetracks in California. The latest tracks to cancel live racing after county health officia...
Oaklawn Park Handicapping: Best Live Racing Available
Oaklawn Park Handicapping: Coronavirus has wreaked havoc on the March and April racing calendar far and wide, but one place that so far has steadfastly kept most of its original four-day-a-week spring...
Kentucky Derby Top 10: Tiz The Law Lives Up to No. 1 Status
Kentucky Derby Top 10: Latest Recount And now? Nothing. Tiz the Law has done everything possible to stake his claim as the nations top 3-year-old with his victory in the Florida Derby (G1), and thu...