Virgil Raines

So the big question is whether the out-of-town jocks, in the heat of a $1-million battle for the GI TVG.com Haskell S., can master the instinct to reach for the whip? If any lifelong flagellants are anxious of their self-discipline, then they need only play back the 1988 running and remind themselves how Laffit Pincay, Jr. coaxed Forty Niner home, in withering heat, by a nose from Seeking the Gold. The whip is unsheathed, for sure, but so seamlessly with the horse's own efforts that the overall effect is like...

Longtime owner and breeder Leonard Green, whose D J Stable has been a fixture at Monmouth Park for nearly four decades, has been named the 2020 winner of the New Jersey track's Virgil "Buddy" Raines Distinguished Achievement Award. Dennis Drazin, chairman and CEO of Darby Development, operator of Monmouth Park, said Green "exemplifies everything that is good about Thoroughbred racing." Drazin continued, "The Raines Award honors the very best in our sport and Leonard Green has represented that for many years now." Leonard and Lois Green's D.J. Stable has been...