Ray Kerrison joined the Post in 1977. He has been a turf columnist for 18 years and a general columnist for 14 years, covering thoroughbred races in the United States and France, presidential conventions and elections, business, budgets, education and social issues. He won a Page One Award from the New York Newspaper Guild and the Society of Silurians Award for investigative reporting.
The New York Racing Association nar rowly escaped an historic betting fiasco in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday when the well-bet sentimental favorite Uptowncharlybrown lost a lead pad during the running of the race....
June 07, 2010 12:00 AM
At 44 years of age, as retirement looms on the horizon, jockey Mike Smith yesterday finally got the one big race that had eluded him all his illustrious career when he drove Drosselmeyer to the wire to win the 142nd...
June 06, 2010 12:00 AM
The triple Crown winds up today at Belmont Park with one salient fact: It has been dominated to date by three of the biggest name trainers in the business — Todd Pletcher, Bob Baffert and Nick Zito. Between them, they...
June 05, 2010 3:57 AM
It comes down to the Belmont Stakes, the last stop on the Triple Crown, the make-or-break mile and a half around the big sand trap, New York's best horse race, tomorrow afternoon, at the biggest and most daunting...
June 04, 2010 12:00 AM
Just when the Belmont Stakes field seemed set to go with 11 horses, America's leading trainer, Todd Pletcher, jumped out of the woodwork and said: "Make it 12. Count me in!" His 11th-hour decision to run his grass...
June 03, 2010 12:00 AM
Eight women have tried without success to train the winner of the Belmont Stakes, but the ninth shooter could prove the charm when Alexis Barba saddles Make Music for Me in Saturday's 142nd running. The closest any...
June 02, 2010 12:00 AM
If you plan to bet the Belmont on Saturday, go for the price. That's the hot tip from Jerry Brown, proprietor of Thoro-Graph, the speed-figure guru whose daily trackings of horse performances are closely studied by...
June 01, 2010 12:00 AM
The old powerhouse training brigade -- Todd Pletcher, Bob Baffert and Nick Zito -- have dominated the Triple Crown trail leading up to Saturday's grand finale, the 142d Belmont Stakes. Between them, they have won...
May 31, 2010 12:00 AM
BALTIMORE -- At 57 years of age, Bob Baffert has seen it all, won it all and savored it all in the racing business, but early yesterday, outside the Pimlico stakes barn, he tasted the sweetest nectar of all:...
May 17, 2010 12:00 AM
BALTIMORE — Lookin At Lucky finally — yes, finally — lived up to his name and his billing. The year’s unluckiest horse in America finally got clear sailing in a horse race, finally got the ride of his life and finally...
May 16, 2010 3:16 AMBALTIMORE — Bob Baffert may be one of the sharpest trainers in the business, but as he prepared to saddle Lookin At Lucky in today’s Preakness Stakes, he conceded the horse has him baffled. “I don’t know what to make...
May 15, 2010 3:31 AMBALTIMORE -- The Preakness, which will be run for the 135th time tomorrow at Pimlico, is the easiest, big money, Grade 1 classic in America to handicap. It's so simple it's almost eerie. Just bet one of the...
May 14, 2010 12:00 AM
BALTIMORE -- The star of the show, Super Saver -- led by a police escort with flashing red and blue lights and greeted by throngs of photographers -- pulled into Pimlico yesterday, ready to add the Preakness Stakes to...
May 13, 2010 12:00 AMBALTIMORE — Although 17 of the past 20 Preakness Stakes have been won by horses emerging from the Kentucky Derby, contrarian horseplayers never stop looking for a new face with the potential to spring an upset at a...
May 12, 2010 4:34 AMBALTIMORE -- Boosted by the Kentucky Derby's biggest TV audience in 21 years and buoyed by the prospect of a full field of 14 horses and a 25 percent run-up in ticket sales, the 135th Preakness Stakes Saturday could be...
May 11, 2010 12:00 AMLOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Ever since born-again Christian jockey Pat Day retired from riding, religion has seldom intruded into the boisterous, cut-and-thrust, knock-down business of horse racing. But after Super Saver...
May 03, 2010 12:00 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — What more can you say about Calvin Borel? He’s the jockey who set the world alight with his daring ride to win the Kentucky Derby three years ago on Street Sense. He then uncorked perhaps the greatest...
May 02, 2010 2:57 AMLOUISVILLE, Ky. — After suffering through a wretched week of shock and disappointment, Todd Pletcher could rebound in a blaze of glory and vindication this afternoon if one of his four horses can win the Kentucky Derby....
May 01, 2010 5:25 AMLOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Unlike most connoisseurs of the racing game, I thought tomorrow's 136th Kentucky Derby was a two-horse race between Lookin at Lucky and Sidney's Candy, with the rest of them gasping for air. Now,...
April 30, 2010 12:00 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Moments after the local mayor presented him with the Keys to the City, trainer Nick Zito yesterday stood outside his barn and suggested he just might have the keys to Saturday's Kentucky Derby, too....
April 29, 2010 2:31 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- John Sadler, the hottest trainer in California, is making his first major run at the Kentucky Derby this week with the best speed horse in the country, Sidney's Candy. The question on everyone's...
April 28, 2010 12:00 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- In the past 24 hours, Saturday's Kentucky Derby has gone from a one-horse victory parade to a 20-horse scramble that has even top trainers scratching their heads. The disappearance of hot...
April 27, 2010 12:00 AM
LOUISVILLE -- Suddenly, Lookin At Lucky and his trainer Bob Baffert have vaulted to the top of the Kentucky Derby marquee. The dramatic defection of hot favorite Eskendereya from the line-up has turned the second...
April 26, 2010 12:00 AMARCADIA, Calif. -- Zenyatta's memorable swoop down the lane to capture the Breeders' Cup Classic may have been one of the great moments in the turf year, but it has thrown Horse of the Year voters into a tailspin....
November 09, 2009 12:00 AMARCADIA, Calif. -- She did it! Zenyatta, the big, beautiful ornament of American racing rocked southern California like an earthquake yesterday, when she came from dead last to storm her way through the stretch and...
November 08, 2009 12:00 AMARCADIA, Calif. -- Bring her on! With the whole turf world focused today on Zenyatta's dramatic showdown against male horses in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita, a rival trainer took one look at...
November 07, 2009 12:00 AMARCADIA, Calif. -- Adorned with the best mare on the planet, 30 high quality European horses and jockeys, fast tracks, fine weather and a superb setting, the 26th Breeders' Cup gets underway today at Santa Anita....
November 06, 2009 12:00 AMARCADIA, Calif. -- Jockey Richard Migliore, who lobbed a grenade in the Breeders' Cup last year by winning the Turf Sprint on the 36-1 shot Desert Code, is back at Santa Anita for this Cup with the same ammunition, the...
November 05, 2009 12:00 AMARCADIA, Calif. — Fresh off winning the Keeneland fall training title, Ken McPeek has pulled into Santa Anita with a cavalry of juveniles for the Breeders' Cup, ready to fire shots that could be heard round the world....
November 04, 2009 2:41 AMARCADIA, Calif. -- How quickly they forget. Five months ago, Mine That Bird and his black-hat cowboy trainer Chip Woolley were the toast of America after coming from a furlong behind to win the Kentucky Derby at 50...
November 03, 2009 12:00 AM
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