Tag: Horse Racing Rules

‘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 Ed McNamara A year ago, Jason Servis couldn’t have been doing better. He had just seen Maximum Security dominate the Florida Derby and become a hot item for the Kentucky Derby. A week later, …

By Richard Rosenblatt There’s more than just Kentucky Derby preps and the Big ‘Cap going on in horse racing these days. The latest news from Dubai? Due to safety concerns regarding the coronavirus, no spectators …

By Ray Wallin Slang. Jargon. Vernacular. Lingo. These are all terms for a casual dialect spoken locally somewhere. To the outsider it makes no sense, but to the insider it is crystal clear. For example, …

Racetrack Slang and Jargon: These are terms for a casual dialect spoken locally somewhere. To the outsider it makes no sense, but to the insider it is crystal clear. For example, here in New Jersey …

I love going to the track. I especially love sitting out on the grandstand apron at Monmouth Park on a lazy, sunny Friday afternoon in the summer. We are all there for the same purpose, …

I witnessed a robbery yesterday. Not the kind involving weapons or ski masks or a W-4 form, but a robbery nonetheless. It occurred in the sixth race at Thistledown, where the horse that crossed the …