#Carter Handicap

This content was produced in partnership with Sean Miller. If you are a casual fan of horse racing, you will know the first Saturday in May is for the Kentucky Derby. But that is just the culmination of months worth of qualifying to get into the main race, let alone all the other races on Kentucky Oaks and derby day. That is where we are at now:…

By Pat McKenna - NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y.- The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today announced the stakes schedule for the 2023 spring meet at Aqueduct Racetrack, featuring 14 stakes worth nearly $2.8 million in total purses. The 19-day spring meet will open on March 30 and continue through April 30. Live racing will be conducted…

Red Oak Stable and Madaket Stables' multiple Grade 1-winner Mind Control will retire on top of his game after securing a trademark gutsy score in Saturday's Grade 1, $750000 Cigar Mile Handicap presented by NYRA Bets, at Aqueduct Racetrack. Trained by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher and piloted by fellow Hall of Famer John Velazquez, the 6-year-old son…

Recalling some of the greatest gambles in racing history. This week: Frankie Dettori and the Magnificent Seven To win every contest at a race meeting, 'going through the card' in racing parlance, is a coveted feat rarely achieved by any jockey or trainer. To do it on one of the most important racedays of the year was the stuff of dreams for Frankie…

Epicenter, shown training before his second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, meets the winner of that race, Rich Strike, again Saturday in the Grade I Travers Stakes at Saratoga. Photo courtesy of Churchill Downs Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The "Midsummer Derby" at Saratoga pits the first three finishers from the Kentucky Derby against one another again in…

There is good reason the memory of Hall of Fame mare Gallorette bubbles to the surface at this time each year. It's not because she was a champion, with 21 wins and 20 seconds in a career of 72 starts, or that she retired in the autumn of 1948 with record earnings and a collection of victories over first-class male competition. It's because she was…

Churchtown wins the Gio Ponti under Junior Alvarado (NYRA/Coglianese) By Mary Eddy - NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y.- W. B. Harrigan and Mike Pietrangelo's Kentucky homebred Churchtown posted a game wire-to-wire victory for Hall of Fame trainer Roger Attfield in Saturday's $135000 Gio Ponti, a 1 1/16-mile outer turf route for 3-year-olds, at…

With three different Derby points races on Saturday and many other graded stakes races, fans can watch racing all day and not get bored. From a betting standpoint, the Grade 2, $750000 Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct, Grade 1, $1 million Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland and Grade 1, $750000 Santa Anita Derby appear chalky. Players need to either go…

In this biweekly series, racing analyst Keeler Johnson shares promising horses from his handicapping watch list, reviewing runners who have recently caught his eye and previewing horses scheduled to run back in the near future. Upcoming Entries Victorious in the Raven Run (G2) at Keeneland last fall, Caramel Swirl kicked off 2022 with a flashy 3…

Did you know active subscribers receive our Inside Track wagering guides absolutely FREE? Subscribe today and be the first to receive our upcoming MONSTER wagering guide to the 2022 Breeders' Cup! Dublin Fjord Stables, Racepoint Stables, Kevin D. Hilbert and Thomas E. O'Keefe's Drafted will vie for his third graded victory of the year in Saturday's…

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Dublin Fjord Stables, Racepoint Stables, Kevin D. Hilbert and Thomas E. O'Keefe's Drafted will vie for his third graded victory of the year in Saturday's Grade 2, $250000 Vosburgh, a seven-furlong main track sprint for 3-year-olds and up, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet. The winner of the Vosburgh will earn a berth in the…

Nations Pride and Classic Causeway will face off once again in Saturday's Caesars Jockey Club Derby (G3) at Aqueduct closing out the Caesars Turf Triple. Classic Causeway got away easy in the Belmont Derby, but Nations Pride evened the score by winning the G1 Saratoga Derby. While the Jockey Club Derby's longer, mile-and-a-half distance could…

Change. Sometimes we fear it, and sometimes we embrace it. President Bill Clinton once said that "the price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change." Few major races have had as much change in their history as the Jockey Club Gold Cup. One of those changes began last year with the race moving to the final weekend of the…