Troy Levy and Chuck Simon go way back. Both from New York, they met at Yonkers Raceway in 1988, Levy training and driving Standardbreds and Simon working as the assistant racing secretary. They mostly went their separate ways soon after that, but they always maintained a mutual love for horse racing, and their winding roads [...]

5th-BEL, $75K, Msw, 3yo/up, 1 1/16mT, post time: 3:36 p.m. ET Lael Stables and Three Chimenys Farm's NEZET (Tapit) was the second-highest lot of the 2015 Keeneland September sale when hammering for $1.65 million, and the chestnut makes his belated debut in this Thursday turf route at Belmont. Trained by Chad Brown, Nezet is out [...]

8th-DEL, $34k, Msw, 2yo, 1m, 4:45 p.m. EDT Robert Baker, William Mack and Brereton Jones partnered up to go in for $900,000 at Keeneland September on BELIEVE IN ROYALTY (Tapit), who makes his debut in this two-turn baby race at Delaware. The gray is the first foal out of Jones's homebred Believe You Can (Proud [...]

It was going to be like something out of a Disney movie. Champion Lady Eli (Divine Park) fought off a life-threatening bout of laminitis and clawed her way back to the races after more than a year on the bench in last year's GII Ballston Spa S. at Saratoga. She swept to the lead in [...]

New name, same loaded field. The GI H. Allen Jerkens Memorial S., heretofore known as the GI King's Bishop S., almost always attracts a high-quality field of 3-year-olds as the only Grade I on the calendar for sophomore sprinters. This year, the only thing different is the race's moniker, as 'TDN Rising Star' Coal Front [...]

Absent the imposing presence of its conqueror in 2015 and 2016, Flintshire (GB) (Dansili {GB}), an evenly-matched field of seven will go postward in Saturday's GI Longines Sword Dancer Invitational S. at Saratoga, with two European invaders taking on five American hard-knockers. Flaxman Holdings' Erupt (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) will try to make it two-for-two in [...]

In the Saratoga finale Aug. 2, a filly named March X Press (Shanghai Bobby) began her racing career with little fanfare or expectation. She was let go at over 5-1 despite being a Todd Pletcher-trained firster in a New York-bred race. The gates opened and everyone came out running but her. “What is this? This [...]

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.–One thing that I think all racing fans can agree on is that racing fans are complainers. It's in our nature, and most of it comes from a good place–being defensive about a niche sport struggling to survive in many areas and thus wanting it to be portrayed in the best possible light [...]

A good crowd, lots of smiling faces and healthy debate over a host of hot-button issues comprised the effective beginning of Equestricon, the first ever national horse racing convention, Monday in Saratoga Springs. Though Equestricon hosted a number of events around town and at the racetrack Sunday, Monday morning was the opening bell of a [...]

A little less than two years ago, Nat Rea of Regis Farms left the horse racing business by dispersing his stock at the Keeneland November sale. Two months before that, however, Rea had sold his Versailles farm to a new entity in American horse racing named Bonne Chance Farm. Little was divulged at the time [...]

It may only have five horses, but Wednesday's GII Honorable Miss H. at Saratoga is a very strong group, as three of the heavy hitters in the female sprinter division will knock heads in the six-furlong test. The morning line favorite and leading contender for the Eclipse award right now is Paulassilverlining (Ghostzapper), who was [...]

5th-SAR, $83K, Msw, 2yo, f, 5 1/2f, 3:14 p.m. ET The opening of Saratoga promises the unveiling of exciting juvenile prospects, and a group of 10 fillies will comprise the first open-company 2-year-old race of the meet. Todd Pletcher, fresh off of winning two-thirds of this year's Triple Crown, is sure to have some precocious [...]