Over the 4 decades during which I’ve been an avid horse racing fan, I’ve seen a lot of well-managed and mismanaged horses.  One is tempted to be an armchair trainer and shout, “What were they thinking?!?!” when a horse is poorly spotted, and we’re willing to give a pass to a bad decision, but when [...]

The following is a guest blog by Ornatan:
Revenge . . .
. . . Is Mine.
Who wants Revenge?
It was the question on everyone’s lips during Derby week; and the bitter throng had many answers to offer. The pre-race Derby favorite was trained by Jeff Mullins, who had long since been anointed by hardened gamblers as a [...]

Once upon a time, there was a $200K yearling by Tiznow, out of Spring Flight by Miswaki. He was purchased by Robert LaPenta and (initially) trained by Nick Zito. The duo of LaPenta-Zito produced Da’ Tara, but it also produced The Bell Tolls, another promising, mismanaged Tiznow colt. After a sparkling debut at Delaware, [...]

Speculation has arisen in the last day since Perfect Song, a promising 3 year old colt, ran to a 2nd place finish in allowance company February 21st at Turfway. Dueling for almost the entirety of the 6.5 F, Perfect Song came out on the losing end to the longest shot in the field, He [...]

I’ve been waiting for this Dan Hendricks trainee to return to the worktab since his lackluster finish in the Arkansas Derby. After breaking his maiden on the Santa Anita lawn, Indian Sun was pointed toward the Triple Crown trail, even though repeated starts on the synthetic surface showed he had no interest to run on [...]