Author: Matt Hess

You wouldn’t know it if you lived in the Chicagoland area, but Saturday will be the one day all year that all eyes in the horse racing world will be focused on Arlington Park for …

Arlington Million Day at Arlington Park also features the Grade I Beverly D., a 1 3/16-mile affair for fillies and mares on the turf, and the horse to watch is the impressive Dona Bruja.  She …

A Grade III event for fillies, Saturday’s 1 1/8-mile Pucker Up Stakes at Arlintyon Park features 12 evenly-matched entrants. The morning line favorite is Lovely Bernadette for trainer James DiVito.  At 7-2, she’s certainly a …

Summer is starting to heat up here in Chicagoland, and so is the racing at Arlington International Racecourse. The biggest race day of the year is, of course, the Grade I Arlington Million.  But this …

I knew he was going to lose.  I just knew it. It was one year ago that I was preparing for my very first trip to Saratoga.  I couldn’t be more excited to see a …

The greatest athletes in the world all have one thing in common: they are driven by the pursuit of greatness. It’s what sports is all about. Being better than your opponent, better than the guy …

Horse racing is the only sport in the world that exists solely because of, and for the benefit of, its fans. Without gamblers in the seats, at the OTB’s and on their online accounts, the …