Rachel Alexandra back in training

Rachel Alexandra, the superstar filly who has been taking it easy on the Churchill Downs backstretch for the last seven weeks, has returned to the racetrack for the first time since arriving here Oct. 7 from Saratoga.

The happiest of holidays

The holiday season at the horse races is my favorite time of the year.

Three to be thankful for

Thanksgiving means much more than getting out a nail punch from the tool shed and expanding your leather belt by a notch. It's a time to reflect and appreciate as much as anything; and those of us who work in, and enjoy, the horse racing industry truly have been blessed in 2009.

Gomez taken off mounts after spill

Jockey Garrett Gomez has taken off his scheduled mounts at Hollywood Park after escaping serious injury in a spill.

We owe it to them

One of Bobby Frankel's last requests -- that in lieu of flowers, donations in his memory be sent to Old Friends, The Grayson Jockey Club Research Foun...

Smokey Fire wins Kennedy Road

Smokey Fire won his first stakes over Grade 2 winner Field Commission and 20-1 outsider Signature Red in the $170,950 Kennedy Road at Woodbine on Saturday.

American Lion handles class jump

The highly-touted American Lion made the successful jump from the maiden ranks to stakes competition when he scored a half-length victory in the Grade 3, $100,000 Hollywood Prevue Stakes on Saturday at Hollywood Park.

Twin Sparks sets world record

Twin Sparks has always been a fast horse but likely no one knew the 6-year-old was this fast.

Haynesfield pulls clear at Aqueduct

Haynesfield, who four weeks earlier scored his richest victory in the $250,000 Empire Classic against older New York-bred rivals, captured his first graded stakes victory in Saturday's Grade 3, $103,500 Discovery Handicap for 3-year-olds.

Acoma wins stretch battle

Acoma probably earned herself another year of racetrack life when she bounced back from two last-place finishes to post a hard-fought victory Saturday in the 36th running of the Grade 3, $111,700 Cardinal Handicap at Churchill Downs.

Citation, winner of the 1948 Flamingo Stakes, was honored with a life-size statue at Hialeah.

The Flamingo Stakes, run over the main track at Hialeah until 2001, was a key Kentucky Derby prep for decades.

Hialeah's finish line looked more like a pasture than a racetrack in 2006.