Our occasional racing history features takes a different tack today: the story of the day the jocks allegedly fixed a race.
We debut a new (occasional) feature, Today in Racing History, with this tidbit on The Bid.
Rock N’ Bid nearly played Secretariat on the big screen. These days, says his former owner, the retired Thoroughbred is a star of a different sort.
Maryland-based owner Richard Hackerman attended the Preakness and Black-Eyed Susan, as he does every year. Here are his post-mortem observations of the weekend.
Plenty of good racing news doesn’t make it into the public eye. But one group in Maryland is doing what it can to promote the retraining of Thoroughbreds for other disciplines, and Richard Hackerman reports that they’re making a difference — they did to him.
