The first time that I went to Parx was in January of 2007. It was a day trip from New York with a couple of friends, and I met there another friend, someone who knew the place much better than I did. Admittedly, a maiden voyage to any northern track ideally shouldn’t happen in the…
Two years ago, on the advice of bloodstock agent Tom McGreevy, Fox Hill Farm’s Rick Porter entered the bidding fray in the Humphrey S. Finney Pavilion at the Fasig-Tipton yearling sale in Saratoga, trying to add a dark bay Medaglia d’Oro filly to his already prodigious list of stakes-winning fillies and mares. Four-hundred thousand dollars…
What little attention paid to horse racing in the winter is generally devoted to three-year-old horses on the Kentucky Derby trail. Two months out from the big race, two undefeated colts, Mohaymen and Nyquist, are the buzz horses, with the hype expected to grow if they take each other on in the Florida Derby on…
Brooklyn Backstretch 