By Ray Wallin Lawrence Peter Berra, better known as Yogi Berra, is considered one of the greatest catchers in baseball history. He was an 18-time All-Star and won an amazing 10 World Series titles over …

By Ed McNamara Back in the mid-Sixties, 14-year-old me watched “That Was The Week That Was,” an Americanized version of an earlier British TV series that satirized current events. Some of the political material was …

By Margaret Ransom Santa Anita Park kicks off its winter/spring racing season on Sunday with an 11-race card featuring five stakes races, highlighted by the Runhappy Malibu Stakes and the La Brea Stakes, the final …

By Noel Michaels   Fans of racing at Oaklawn Park are accustomed to seeing Steve Asmussen and Ricardo Santana, Jr. atop the trainer and jockey standings year after year. This meet could play out a …

‘Tis the season of joy and glad tidings. The tidings were hardly joyous last week for disgraced trainer Jorge Navarro, sentenced to five years in prison as a central figure in a widespread horse-doping scandal. …

By Richard Rosenblatt Jim Thorpe was born near Prague, Oklahoma, about a 60-minute drive east of Remington Park in Oklahoma City. Thorpe was an incredible athlete, considered by many the greatest of the 20th century. …

By Ed McNamara It’s tough to hit a pick 3 or a pick 4, but when you do, there’s a feeling of accomplishment. You didn’t zig when you could have zagged, and vice versa. You …

By US Racing Team Let the racing awards begin … It’s December, so the horse racing world takes some time out from so much controversy swirling around the sport to honor those who have excelled …

By Ray Wallin When you think of elite military operations, the U.S. Navy SEALs immediately come to mind. They are characterized as being highly efficient, intelligent, and skilled, often tackling the hardest assignments. Two retired …

By Noel Michaels We’re two weeks into the long and stakes stacked Gulfstream Park Champions Meet, where the winter season that’s not so wintry in South Florida attracts most of the best trainers, jockeys, grass …

By Mike Farrell The Road to the 2022 Triple Crown detours from the usual venues Friday night to Oklahoma City for the $400,000 Springboard Mile at Remington Park. It’s the only major 2-year-old stakes on …

By Richard Rosenblatt If you’re following the races on Saturday, there’s a bunch of familiar names showing up at tracks around the country, from Gulfstream Park in Florida to Los Alamitos in California. Let’s start …

  By Richard Rosenblatt The race is still seven weeks away, but the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) is worth some discussion now that winter racing is in full swing. The “Championship Meet” …

By Ed McNamara It began at age 12 on the primitive bush tracks of Louisiana, and it will end on a December night far from the spotlight. In the time between, Robby Albarado created a …

By Noel Michaels Some of the country’s top winter dirt racing has already begun in the Midwest with the opening of the Oaklawn Park meet last week. The meet added 10 racing days to boost …