On Saturday afternoon at Santa Anita Park, Jim Rome did something few horse owners have accomplished: he won a Breeders’ Cup race for the second consecutive year. Two days later and 2,000 miles away, he sold the horse that did it for him, Mizdirection, for $2.7 million. Rome runs his horses in the name of…
Day two of the Breeders’ Cup kicks off at 3:05 ET with the $2 million Juvenile Fillies and will end Saturday night with the $5 million Classic, with a post time of 8:35 ET. TV coverage begins at 3:30 pm ET on NBC Sports Network and switches at 8 pm ET to NBC for the…
For a woman who doesn’t like the city, Maryland’s Annie Finney has made quite a name for herself on the New York circuit. A native of the greater Baltimore area, Finney has worked since 2011 as an exercise rider for Todd Pletcher; based at first in Saratoga and now at his Belmont barn, she works…
We’re less than 24 hours away from one of the most anticipated racing events of the year, the Breeders’ Cup, taking place on Friday and Saturday at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. Two days of racing offer 14 Breeders’ Cup races with purses of $25 million, highlighted Friday by the $2 million Distaff and Saturday by…
On the last weekend of October a year ago, Thoroughbred trainer Mark Hennig and his wife Rosemary were on their way home from Florida. They’d heard about the impending storm heading towards their New York home, but they weren’t particularly concerned. “We were just due to come back that day,” Hennig said this week at…
As Trinniberg and Currency Swap dueled to the wire in the quagmire that was the 2011 Three Chimneys Hopeful Stakes (gr. I), I stood in the winner’s circle in a rooting quandary. Currency Swap was trained by Teresa Pompay, a Saratoga native whose family I had known since I was 13 years old. A win would mean her first…
Join Infinite Hope Animal Rescue this Thursday night at the Nu Hotel on Smith Street (at Atlantic Avenue) to celebrate a year of helping animals and to help fund the organization’s rescue efforts. Infinite Hope is an all-volunteer animal rescue based in Boerum Hill that houses, cares for, and places abandoned animals; the organization’s adoption center is…
Saturday’s meeting was scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. EDT, the time the gates open at Belmont. But with few people in attendance, the forum was delayed until nearly 11:30 a.m., which put it up against a jockey autograph signing scheduled by the New York Racing Association. NYRA’s only role in the fan council forum…
On Saturday at Belmont Park, the New York Racing Association will run its annual autumn showcase for New York-bred horses. Re-named this year, Empire Showcase Day will feature 11 races exclusively for horses that were foaled in this state. More than 100 horses will compete for purse money totaling more than $1.6 million. Showcase Day…
A couple of dozen Thoroughbreds took to the track at Pimlico last weekend, but not to run in a race. There was no starting gate, no betting, and no jockeys, but more than 600 people bought tickets to see what the horses could do beyond competing in a horse race. The Retired Racehorse Training Project took over…
Brooklyn Backstretch 