Remember Ben with a gift to Thoroughbred aftercare
Welcome to the new TDN Podcast page, which features a weekly racing discussion—the TDN Writers' Room—along with stories from the TDN Look and longer stories in the TDN which have been made into podcasts.
The Stronach Group likes to think big–so big that it has created the richest horse race in the history of the world, the $12 million Pegasus World Cup, which will be run Jan. 28 at Gulfstream Park. One of the people leading the team is Mike Rogers, the President of the Stronach Group, and he is this week's guest on the Thoroughbred Daily News podcast.
He was once so small he was considered to be perhaps even too small to be a jockey. He made his debut in US racing in 2008 as an obscure apprentice/exercise rider who got all of three mounts for Todd Pletcher at Gulfstream. But few riders in the history of racing have come so far
You can knock him down but you can never knock him out. Gary Stevens, having battled Father Time and numerous injuries, seems to always find his way back to the heights of his profession. Now recovering from hip replacement surgery, is there another chapter to Stevens's career as a jockey? We'll find as Stevens is this
Never miss another story from the TDN
Click Here to sign up for a free subscription.
