#5: the fifth annual Twelve Days of Curlin Babies

Welcome back to the Twelve Days of Curlin Babies, where we celebrate the twelve most memorable races from Curlin’s progeny throughout … More

building Catholic Boy’s foundation

When I think of Catholic Boy, I think of the unheralded hard work that goes into building a great horse’s … More

Season Two of this year’s Big Race Showdown at America’s Best Racing continues this weekend: where I clash heads with six awesome … More

Welcome to Day Two of the 2017 Breeders’ Cup! Picks and Ponderings previewed Friday’s four Breeders’ Cup races in a separate piece. Here, … More

It’s that time of the year once more: the best horses in the world have descended on one place to … More

A strong summer for the Curlin babies continued today, as two more achieved their first graded stakes placings of their … More

The ones who billed it as a battle between champions were technically correct. To many, those words were just bluster, … More

I have never had such a hard time watching a race as I did Sunday’s showdown in the San Diego … More

I hoped I would see Annie’s Curls (Keiko, by First Samurai) race at Arlington this summer. The juvenile daughter of … More

I am team Princess of Sylmar. Two years ago, I was just starting to gravitate closer to horse racing. Through … More

This Saturday, there are three Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re In races on the Del Mar card. The Pacific Classic … More

Sires rarely have better weekends than Curlin just had. Curlin had nine runners hit the board, six of whom won … More

The biggest day of the Aqueduct fall meet is upon us tomorrow: Cigar Mile Day. At Picks and Ponderings, I … More

As a continuation of Picks and Ponderings’s Thanksgiving Handicapping Feast, Paul and I delved into three more races for Friday. … More

This week at Picks and Ponderings, I previewed a grab bag of three stakes that could hardly be more dissimilar: … More