Whenever mutually worthy candidates are up for Horse of the Year, strong cases can be made for both. But the ultimate result turns on what the majority of the Eclipse Award voters thinks the golden […]
Continuing a tradition started in 2015, I’ve gone back through the past 12 months and compiled a list of what I think were my better takes and historical features published at Brisnet.com during the course […]
Eclipse Award voters are encountering a bit of everything in this year’s equine divisional races. There are, of course, the slam dunk choices: Game Winner (juvenile colt), Justify (three-year-old colt), Monomoy Girl (three-year-old filly), Accelerate […]
Justify won the 2018 Triple Crown.
Supporters of Justify‘s Horse of the Year candidacy often note that the electorate has never turned its back on a Triple Crown winner for the honor since proper year-end polling commenced in 1936. True enough. […]
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert entered Saturday’s $300,345 Los Alamitos Futurity (G1) with a terrific chance of racking up his 11th victory in the juvenile feature, and his 1-5 favorite Improbable lived up to […]
Australian supermare Winx added another laurel to her lengthy resume Sunday when she was announced as the winner of the Secretariat Vox Populi Award. She became the first international winner of the online poll, reflecting […]
Following his fourth-place finish in Saturday’s Cigar Mile (G1), Mendelssohn is retiring to stud at Coolmore America. Last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) winner and reigning UAE Derby (G2) record-setter was already advertised to […]
Even before Accelerate woke up the morning of November 3, there were already preemptive strikes from several quarters in the racing media arguing that even if he prevailed that afternoon in the Breeders’ Cup Classic […]
Good Magic, the 2017 champion juvenile colt, has been retired and will stand at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms in Lexington, Kentucky, where he will join a roster that also includes his sire, Curlin. “We sold […]
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