Correll’s Corner

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview TRINITY, Fla. – The 156th Belmont Stakes will not be “The Test of Champions” this year, it will be just another mile-and-a-quarter race at Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York. Because of the renovation work at Belmont Park the...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- TRINITY, Fla. – The 149th Preakness Stakes on May 18 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore drew only three contenders from the Kentucky Derby. Mystik Dan, Catching Freedom and Just Steel were the only ones to sign up the the...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- TRINITY, Fla. – The 150th Kentucky Derby will be run this year with an asterisk because several of the best 3-year-olds in the country won’t be in the race with the continued ban that Churchill Downs has placed on...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview —- TRINITY, Fla. – The last prep races for the 2024 Kentucky Derby were held on April 6 in New York, Kentucky and California. The Wood Memorial run at Aqueduct on Long Island could have been at Turf Paradise in Arizona...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview Ryan Thompson Photo TRINITY, Fla. – The “good” Fierceness showed up again in the Florida Derby on March 30 and the colt romped by more than 13 lengths to win in a nice time of 1:48.22 for the mile-and-an eighth race. The son of...

Ron Correll Senior columnist Tracksideview Catching Freedom; Hodges Photography TRINITY, Fla. – Catching Freedom came the widest of all off the second turn to storm down the long stretch at Fair Grounds in New Orleans to win the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby on March 23. The son...