Jay Hovdey

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"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. After that my own rule is to let everything alone." —Meyer Wolfsheim, from The Great Gatsby

Mike Smith was three months shy of his 18th birthday when he rode the escalator up to the jockeys' room at

On May 30, 1946, Americans bowed their heads in recognition of the first Memorial Day following the end of World War II.

In this week's On Racing, Forged Steel shipped west to trounce the locals in the Hollywood Gold Cup Stakes (G2), becoming the latest star to emerge from the 2024 Street Sense Stakes (G3).

When tradition gives way to practicality, institutions are known to fall, which is a wordy way of saying adios to the Triple Crown as the game has known it since 1969.

Mark Casse can be forgiven if he forgot about the anniversary of the greatest moment in his Hall of Fame trainer career.

The death of any American racetrack is cause for mourning, but when a giant tree like Aqueduct Racetrack falls, the forest weeps.

If the famous quotation, "Pain makes cowards of us all," holds any grain of truth, I should be writing this column curled up in a fetal position in

The name of the village is taken from a poem entitled "The Fight of Paseo del Mar," by the American travel writer and part-time diplomat Bayard Taylor.