Tag: Remsen Stakes

By Ed McNamara Unfortunately, “practice makes perfect” doesn’t apply to handicapping and betting. I’ve been playing the horses for 40 years, and gradually it’s gotten harder to have winning weeks, let alone winning years. How …

By Noel Michaels With the Breeders’ Cup over after a stellar weekend at Keeneland featuring the blazing speed of Gamine and Authentic, among others, and a 73-1 long-shot winner, it would have been easy to …

By Ed McNamara The late, great Ed Comerford was the turf writer at Newsday when I started my 36-year career there in 1983, and I learned a lot from him. Besides being a wordsmith, Ed …

Although the Remsen Stakes (G2) hasn’t produced a Kentucky Derby winner since Thunder Gulch in 1995, the annual feature for two-year-olds has certainly generated more than its fair share of good horses. Mohaymen was an …

The long, cold winter at Aqueduct will formally begin after the “official” sign goes up for Saturday’s running of the Cigar Mile — the last graded stakes race to be run in New York this …