Johna Nerud News Today

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Four graded stakes highlight the last major racing weekend in New York, with the $500,000 Cigar Mile Saturday’s featured event. After 32 years as a G1, the Cigar has been downgraded to G2. This year’s edition may be short on household names – there are no G1 winners in the field […]

Fincher has enjoyed training all of the half-siblings produced thus far out of the multiple stakes-winning Desert Gold mare Rose’s Desert

The big news for the upcoming weekend is torrential rainfall in the Northeast, which is causing widespread flooding in the New York area.

“I was very impressed with him last time. I thought he showed a lot of courage,” Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott said

Summer racing is in full swing with the Jim Dandy at Saratoga attracting top 3-year-olds and reigning Breeders' Cup winners racing in two other races; the King George in England pits the 1-2 finishers from the Epsom Derb

Ust when you think that’s it, he hasn’t run as well as we’ve seen him run in the past or he’s not training that well, he fires off a bullet and wins a race,” Grant said

Dave Tuley and his handiccapping friends look for value plays at horse racing tracks from coast to coast.

Flavien Prat invaded Ellis Park on Saturday and came away with Grade 1 and Grade 2 stakes wins and the honor of Jockey of the Week

Fort Bragg nosed out Saudi Crown in an exciting stretch-long duel and won the $200,000 Dwyer (G3) for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert on Saturday (July 1) at…

It took a few moments for trainer Jason Cook to fully believe he had just won his first graded stakes Saturday when Three Technique shipped to Belmont Park to capture John A. Nerud (G2) by 3 3/4 lengths, but by Sunday morning the veteran horseman said it all became reality.