David Harrison of Webster, N.Y., topped a field of 643 entries to win the $725,000 first-place prize and an Eclipse Award as Horseplayer of the Year at the 23rd annual National Horseplayers Championship. 

After a disappointing comeback effort in the Fifth Season Stakes, the bar may be set lower for the next start of Gary and Mary West’s Concert Tour.

It looks like there will be a trip to New Orleans in Remsen Stakes (G2) runner-up Zandon’s future.

After a disappointing comeback effort in the Fifth Season Stakes, the bar may be set slightly lower for the next start of Gary and Mary West’s Concert Tour.

David Harrison of Webster, N.Y., topped a field of 643 entries to win the $725,000 first-place prize and an Eclipse Award as Horseplayer of the Year at the 23rd annual National Horseplayers Championship. 

After a nearly 5-minute deliberation following the finish of the Jan. 30 John B. Connally Turf Cup (G3), the Sam Houston Race Park stewards ruled that Another Mystery and Fantasioso were simply inseparable at the wire. Dead Heat.

When trainer Todd Pletcher was asked how his Pegasus winner was doing a day later, he offered a doubly long answer.

Trainer Steve Asmussen collected his third victory in the $400,000 Houston Ladies Classic (G3) Jan. 30 at Sam Houston Race Park thanks to Stonestreet Stables’ homebred Pauline’s Pearl.

Friar’s Road has shown a liking for the Southern California turf, capping 2021 off with three graded stakes placings. He had his breakthrough moment Jan. 30 at Santa Anita Park, flying down the stretch in the $225,000 San Marcos Stakes (G2T).

Though it was the Bob Baffert-trained Newgrange who came out on top in the Jan. 29 Southwest Stakes (G3) at Oaklawn Park, it is runner-up Barber Road who collected the most qualifying points from the race toward a spot in the Kentucky Derby (G1).