Maiden King

The World Anti-Doping Agency’s unanimous decision, if upheld, would exclude Russia from the 2020 Olympics, and the Winter Games and World Cup in 2022.

George Kittle dragged the 49ers to a win over the Saints, Patrick Mahomes finally beat the Patriots and the Ravens topped the Bills in a week that did not disappoint.

Late movement leaves Louisville matched with Mississippi State. Bowl pairings are always in flux. This year it was a frantic game of musical chairs.        

Kentucky football is headed to Charlotte, NC to face the Virginia Tech Hokies in the Belk Bowl on Dec. 31 at noon.        

Defense dominates as Shamrocks capture their 26th state championship        

Of all the horses I come across while matching this type continues to perplex me. I usually pass the race which I will do here today. How can one possibly know whether this type is landing in the right spot or not. My pace line selection puts him in the winners circle. But I have little confidence....

.............to those those folks who contributed the workbook and audio tapes for the Synergism seminar held back in '87 or '88 by PIRCO. I haven't finished studying them yet, but just listening to Bob Purdy and working along through the first few races has helped me get my head back into the...

Here are my horse-by-horse thoughts on all 10 stakes races at Belmont Saturday...

A tribute in memory of legendary writer Bill Nack.

This is just a little post to let people know that all my tournament content will now be appearing in a new place.

In the final episode of the DRF Players’ Podcast (the TBD Players’ Podcast will commence in another place next week), PTF and JK host the first ever Podcast Holiday Quiz. Joined by special guests Matt Scarlata, Drew Coatney, and Gene Menez, they review some of the sometimes sublime but always ridiculous history of the show.

Special guest Richard Migliore joins Peter Thomas Fornatale to talk about his life in racing. Topics include what horsemen and horseplayers can learn from each other, and how today's riding culture is different from when Migliore was riding. Plus, what does a dieting jockey eat for dessert?

Force the Pass will enter stud in Maryland in 2020, becoming a rare Grade 1 winner to stand in the state. He is the latest newcomer at Louis and Grace Merryman’s Anchor and Hope Farm in Port Deposit, Md., which is continuing to build an exciting roster of young stallions even while rebuilding from a destructive barn fire in August.

It’s college basketball season, and everything in Lexington, Ky., is wallpapered in Wildcat blue. But students from the University of Kentucky could be forgiven for having fond thoughts about an adopted Oklahoma Sooner. Multiple Grade 3 winner Fear the Cowboy, bred and raised by the University of Kentucky’s Maine Chance Farm, which employs students as part o […]

At age 25, Tale of the Cat has shown no signs of slowing down. Over the last decade, the Coolmore stallion is responsible for multiple Eclipse Award champion Gio Ponti and Breeders' Cup Distaff winner Stopchargingmaria, and in 2019 continued to light the board with several stakes-performing juveniles who will eye bigger things.

Only three weeks of rest proved inconsequential to Christopher St. Hilaire and Adam Vali's Queen Bee to You, who closed out her season on a high note with her first graded stakes win in the $100,000 Bayakoa Stakes (G3) Dec. 8 at Los Alamitos. 

The Brother Slew, a 45-1 longshot ridden by Paco Lopez, prevented a sweep by Mexico of the five Clasico Internacional del Caribe stakes at Gulfstream Park Dec. 8, scoring an upset victory for Venezuela in the $300,000 Clasico del Caribe.

Ex-Monceaux yearling manager has just launched Arcadia Elevage

 SANTA ANITA’S WINTER MEET OPENER SET FOR THURSDAY, DEC. 26, TRADITIONAL WALL CALENDAR FREE WITH PAID ADMISSION AS ICONIC VENUE OPENS FOR 83RD SEASON WITH EARLY FIRST POST TIME OF 11:30 a.m.  CONDITION BOOK ONE NOW AVAILABLE AS GRADE I MALIBU & GRADE I LA BREA STAKES HEADLINE OPENING DAY CARD THAT ALSO INCLUDES GRADE II […] The post  SANTA ANITA’S WINTER […]

SANTA ANITA ANNOUNCES 2019-20 WINTER/SPRING STAKES SCHEDULE; HEADED BY GRADE I MALIBU & LA BREA ON DEC. 26, A TOTAL OF 93 STAKES, 11 OF THEM GRADE I, TO BE OFFERED THROUGH JUNE 21 ARCADIA, Calif. (Nov. 22, 2019)–Santa Anita Park, which will open for its 83rd Winter/Spring Meeting on Thursday, Dec. 26, has announced […] The post SANTA ANITA ANNOUNCES 2019 […]

Bast and Donna Veloce were 1-2 the entire way in the $300,000 Starlet (G1) Saturday at Los Alamitos, with Bast getting the best of her foe by a half-length...

Thousand Words was headed in deep stretch by Anneau d'Or, but fought back gallantly to best his foe by a neck in the $200,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (G2)...

 SANTA ANITA’S WINTER MEET OPENER SET FOR THURSDAY, DEC. 26, TRADITIONAL WALL CALENDAR FREE WITH PAID ADMISSION AS ICONIC VENUE OPENS FOR 83RD SEASON WITH EARLY FIRST POST TIME OF 11:30 a.m.  CONDITION BOOK ONE NOW AVAILABLE AS GRADE I MALIBU & GRADE I LA BREA STAKES HEADLINE OPENING DAY CARD THAT ALSO INCLUDES GRADE II […] The post  SANTA ANITA’S WINTER […]

SANTA ANITA ANNOUNCES 2019-20 WINTER/SPRING STAKES SCHEDULE; HEADED BY GRADE I MALIBU & LA BREA ON DEC. 26, A TOTAL OF 93 STAKES, 11 OF THEM GRADE I, TO BE OFFERED THROUGH JUNE 21 ARCADIA, Calif. (Nov. 22, 2019)–Santa Anita Park, which will open for its 83rd Winter/Spring Meeting on Thursday, Dec. 26, has announced […] The post SANTA ANITA ANNOUNCES 2019 […]