With the return of racing this week to its inner dirt track for a four-month slog, this seems like an appropriate time to discuss Aqueduct. Torn down in the mid-1950s and then…
Articles by Author: Vance Hanson
A few thoughts following this week’s stakes action: *Don’t Tell Sophia perhaps might have garnered some additional votes in the Eclipse Award race for champion older female with a victory in Thursday’s…
If asked what their favorite time on the calendar is, most racing fans would gravitate toward the obvious. The “Family Feud” type survey would undoubtedly say the Triple Crown and its preceding…
Saturday’s $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot is one of the most lucrative juvenile events on the American racing calendar, and its stature has noticeably risen in the past decade. Among its past…
A loyal and layered congregation of fans and admirers descended on the Kentucky Horse Park’s Hall of Champions barn on Friday to pay tribute to Cigar, the two-time Horse of the Year…
Steven Crist recently wrote about an impending probability (“Older dirt horses need Eclipse of their own,” Daily Racing Form, November 8) in the upcoming Eclipse Award voting: “For the fifth time in…
Other than, perhaps, watching a great champion streak to victory or witnessing one being crowned, nothing quite beats that time-honored Breeders’ Cup experience of cashing tickets on an overlaid contender or longshot…