The Hipodromo de San Isidro racetrack, thirty minutes from downtown Buenos Aires, is a world class facility, with its mile and a half oval turf and mile and an eighth dirt inner track. Hipodromo de San Isidro hosts “Carrera de…
Pack at the Track Harvey Pack’s autobiography, written with freelancer Peter Thomas Fornatale, is exactly what it should be: an honest, entertaining reflection of a unique New York racing institution. The book is just like Harvey: funny as hell, outrageous,…
By Larry Tritten My most salient memory of the National Sporting Library in Middleburg, Virginia is of the bronze sculpture of a war-weary Civil War horse in the Library’s courtyard. This is not the customary type of equestrian statute, with…
By Steve Schuelein First printed 2008 Legendary jockey John Longden once said of Santa Anita Park, “It’s the most beautiful place you can find. You’re camping out when you leave Santa Anita”. The late rider, who won 932 races during 26…
First published December 2008. Quietly, almost anonymously, jockey Ramon Dominguez slipped into New York and won two Grade 1 stakes in a little more than an hour at Belmont Park and then drove back with his family – his wife…
This month Featured Artist is Nicole Charbonnet, and she cannot be described as “emerging” in the usual sense of the word; her reputation as a leading contemporary artist has already been made. What does continue to emerge, however, is Nicole’s…