Bob Wisener

We may not have heard the last from Speed King, one of two horses involved in a speed duel that affected the 2025 Arkansas Derby. Oaklawn's Grade 3 Southwest Stakes winner at 3 and trained by Ron Moquett, the Volatile 4-year-old is on the mend after a second round of surgery, Hot Springs owner Ted Bowman (Triton Stables) reported.

My 2017 trip to upstate New York for Saratoga racing coincided with annual baseball Hall of Fame ceremonies in nearby Cooperstown. The Albany airport teemed with fans displaying Houston Astros merchandise in honor of inductee Jeff Bagwell, a first baseman obtained by trade who played all 15 MLB seasons in the club's ugly orange uniform.

Bob Wisener

Friend and newspaper colleague Tom Murphy might have had too much time on his hands at Southeastern Conference Media Days.

Like a certain New Jersey product did in movies and song, not to mention in other areas, Renegade does things his way on the race track. The year's Arkansas Derby winner could no more change his style than an opera star adopt country music.

I groaned in the Churchill Downs press box one day when Larry Snyder's name was not called for the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame.

Robby Albarado fits nicely on a list of Oaklawn riding champions, a solid citizen if not possessing the magnitude of Pat Day or Larry Snyder.

If Saratoga is the racing fan's August place to be, as the upstate New York track claims, then the Whitney Stakes is the race to see in 2026.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Nothing much happened in the movie industry 50 years ago. Certainly not like Al Jolson ushering in the sound era or Orson Welles jolting the sensibilities of publisher William Randolph Hearst.