Tag: Calumet Farm

By Richard Rosenblatt Once again, Mike Maker is loaded for the $1 million Calumet Turf Cup (G2) at Kentucky Downs on Saturday, with no less than four runners in a field of 12 going 1 …

By Richard Rosenblatt Charlatan, who returned to the races after an absence of eight months with a dominating 4 ½-length victory in the Grade I Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita on opening day Dec. 26, …

Preakness Profile: Excession In the days leading up to Saturday’s 145th Preakness, usracing.com will be publishing profiles of the 11 horses entered in 2020’s final leg of the Triple Crown. By Ed McNamara Although he’s …

One of the strangest unsolved cases in thoroughbred racing gets colder every year, more than 70 years after Citation’s original jockey went missing. Television could make something of this one: three men disappeared from their …

When you drive through the spectacular countryside of the Worthington Valley, you can’t miss it.  The early style cupolas atop the signature red-roofed barns and miles of white fences dot the Glyndon-Reisterstown, Maryland landscape. Sagamore …

On a beautiful afternoon in the spring of 2006, I walked into the Hall of Champions at the Kentucky Horse Park for the first time. A horse gazed out at me from the first stall …

He was The Grey Ghost.  The Horse of the Century. Across his racing career, he established no fewer than 14 world records. At age seven, he effectively partnered with a female to set two of …

There is no city in America like New Orleans and there is no racetrack like the Fair Grounds. Located two miles from the French Quarter in the heart of the Crescent City, these beloved grounds …

I walked toward the stall and saw six nameplates on the door. The top plate said Alydar. I moved on to the next stall… Whirlaway. And the stall across the way… Citation. For lovers of …