Bob Hill – Handicapping

By Heather Pettinger —- El Areeb; All photos by Chelsea Durand OZONE PARK, N.Y. – M M G Stables’ El Areeb picked up 10 points towards securing a spot in the starting gate at the 2017 Kentucky Derby, recording his third straight victory with an 11 ¼-length romp...

By Brian Spencer —- NEW ORLEANS (January 2, 2017) – Two horses on the backstretch at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots spiked temperatures Monday morning. As a result of this development, the precautionary step has been taken to place the entirety of the Fair Grounds...

By Don Stevens —- JOCKEY ASHLEY BROUSSARD SWEEPS THE LOOKOUT AND B-CONNECTED STAKES IN BACK-TO-BACK YEARS AT DELTA DOWNS VINTON, LA. – For the second consecutive year jockey Ashley Broussard has won the Lookout and B-Connected Stakes at Delta Downs on the same weekend....

By Brian Bohl —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Curragh Stables’ Caledonian overtook Always a Suspect in deep stretch to win his stakes debut by a neck in the $100,000 Lost in the Fog for newly turned 3-year-olds on Sunday in the first stakes race of the year at Aqueduct...

By Mike Henry —- OLDSMAR, FL. – For the majority of participants in Thoroughbred racing, their involvement transcends making a living. Many adopt a nomadic existence, moving from one track to the next and from state to state at least once or twice a year. Anyone who has...

By Ed Golden —- • NEW YEAR OFF TO A WINNING START FOR NAKATANI • SHAH TURNS HIS HORSES OVER TO SHERMAN, O’NEILL • SHANE’S GIRLFRIEND TO RUN IN SANTA YNEZ STAKES NAKATANI RETURNS TO SANTA ANITA A WINNER Corey Nakatani is back. Now 46, the native of Covina has returned to...

By Michael Adolphson, Brian Spencer —- NEW ORLEANS (January 1, 2017) – A third horse has tested positive for equine herpes at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots. The horse, trained by Mike Stidham, resides in Barn 36 and contracted EHV-1 non-neurogenic type, also call...

NYRA RELEASE —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – A field of seven newly minted 3-year-olds will look to start 2017 off right on Monday’s special holiday card at Aqueduct Racetrack as New York’s road to the Kentucky Derby makes its first stop of the year in the Grade 3,...

NYRA RELEASE —- OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Eight maiden races worth $100,000 each will be offered this spring as part of the New York Racing Association’s ongoing program for 2-year-olds leading up to the Astoria and Tremont, run on June 8 and 9 as the first two...