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Shows

Racetrack tales and then some, meet Ray Destefano

POSTED: July 15, 2021

If there ever was a Zelig or Damon Runyon type character from the racetrack Ray Destefano fits the bill pretty good. You name it Ray...

News

Five champion jockeys featured in 2021 edition of ‘Champions Talk’

POSTED: March 24, 2021

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The New York Race Track Chaplaincy announced today that the 2021 edition of its Champions Talk fundraiser will feature five retired...

Past The Wire

A Few of The Greatest Losses in Horse Racing

POSTED: September 17, 2020

If you read Past the Wire regularly you'll know there are two things I like to do in my column. I love using great quotes....

Features

Davona Dale: The Double Triple Crown Winner

POSTED: April 14, 2020

Horse racing fans were spoiled in the 1970’s, basking in three Triple Crown winners (Secretariat, Seattle Slew, Affirmed), shooting stars like Ruffian and Spectacular Bid...

Features

A Christmas Past

POSTED: December 19, 2019

Photo Credit: Jim Raftery-Jacinto Vasquez Aboard Christmas Past “Its hair, which hung about its neck and down its back, was white as if with age;...

News

Meet Rick Mocklin

POSTED: September 4, 2019

Meet Rick Mocklin: Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man with no wealth and taste, been around for a long, long,...

Columns

The Ghost Triple Crown Trophy

POSTED: January 31, 2019

By: Nick D’Agostino It had come to my attention that one of the 13 Triple Crown trophies had shown up in of all places, a...