#Good Samaritan

Havnameltdown wins Sunday's Bob Hope Stakes for 2-year-olds at Del Mar. Benoit photo, courtesy of Del Mar Turf Club Nov. 21 (UPI) -- One of the more interesting subplots of late-year racing is the emergence of late-blooming 2-year-olds and Del Mar's weekend program featured two of those -- Havnameltdown among the colts and Justique in the filly…

In the latest chapter of his widely acclaimed series recalling his personal favorites, Jay Hovdey tells the story of an unsung hero who ran in four different races in four years at the Breeders' Cup Let's hear it for the unsung heroes. The anonymous donor. The unnamed benefactor. The Good Samaritan who was first to help at the scene of the crash,…

Flavien Prat, atop Flightline, looks between his legs for the rest of the field after winning the Breeders' Cup Classic at the Breeders' Cup Championships at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., on Saturday. Photo by Mark Abraham/UPI | License Photo LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The Breeders' Cup is in the rearview mirror and the star of the…

By Mary Eddy - NYRA Press Office OZONE PARK, N.Y.- Pine Brook Farm's impressive maiden winner Foggy Night will step up to face winners for the first time in Sunday's $150000 Tempted, a one-mile main track test for juvenile fillies, at Aqueduct Racetrack. Foggy Night, trained by Butch Reid, Jr. , was last seen dominating a one mile and 70-yard…

The most promising two-year-olds in the country will stretch out to two turns on Saturday for the Breeders' Futurity (G1) at Keeneland! The 1 1/16-mile race offers a $600000 purse and an automatic berth to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile for the winner, and an overflow field has lined up. A maximum of 14 horses can run, though the field also contains…

In today's cliff-hanging $1.25-million Travers Stakes at Saratoga, the most important past performances for players are not those of 2017's Triple Crown races, whose winners are the favorites this afternoon. True, the winners' work in those three races will deserve a look before putting the big money down. But, actually, for players, the two most…

This year's Travers Stakes features a wide open field... at least that's what most people think. There's no disputing that the field is star-studded. It includes the three winners of this year's Triple Crown races, and it's the first time all three winners of the spring classics have faced off since the 1982 Travers. That year, a horse named…