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.
ARCADIA, 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 AMARCADIA, Calif. -- The Breeders' Cup extravaganza gets underway today and what better way to start than with a winner, a sure thing, right from the trainer's mouth. Well, we've got the horse right here with a name...
November 02, 2009 12:00 AMMIDWAY through the six-week Saratoga racing season, Alan Garcia, the defending champion, held a four-win lead over Ramon Dominguez in the race for the jockeys' riding title. Who is on top at Del Mar? Don't ask. There...
August 22, 2009 4:59 AMRACHEL Alexandra might be the most glamorous horse in America today, but anyone who thinks she is a cinch to waltz off with next week's $1.25 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth should have a chat with Tim Ice....
July 25, 2009 2:23 AMCAN a horse with a 20-length lead on the field convert it into one of the most exciting races of the year? He certainly can if his name is Presious Passion, a six-year-old chestnut gelding, who saddled up at...
July 11, 2009 3:30 AMTHREE weeks after the Belmont Stakes, jockey Calvin Borel is returning to the scene of the "crime" -- or what critics dubbed his botched ride that led to the defeat of Mine That Bird. Call it the $12 million blunder,...
June 27, 2009 4:00 AMA FEW days before launching his successful raid on Royal Ascot this week, Wesley Ward, the former champion New York apprentice and now sharpshooting trainer, said, "I'm not a gambling man." But when he saw that...
June 20, 2009 3:37 AMTHREE days after the Belmont Stakes wrapped up a Triple Crown -- spectacular for its shocks, charm, TV interest and safety -- the penny dropped. Dunkirk -- the $3.7 million son of Unbridled's Song, who ran second in...
June 13, 2009 4:19 AMTHE Belmont Stakes has become the hardest race in America to handicap in the past decade, but no one nailed Saturday's 141st running quite like Jerry Brown, president of the speed chart service, Thoro-Graph. In...
June 08, 2009 2:49 AMWE'VE said here once, we've said it 20 times, and we'll say it again today: The last two furlongs of the Belmont Stakes are a killer. They have destroyed the hopes of so many great horses over the years and they did...
June 07, 2009 3:23 AMAmericans will bet more than $15 million on Mine That Bird to make him the 2-1 favorite in the Belmont Stakes this afternoon -- and they'll end up with the short end of the stick. That's the assessment of Jerry...
June 06, 2009 2:35 AMTHE biggest racing event of the year in New York, the Belmont Stakes, will be run tomorrow for the 141st time, the oldest and longest classic of the American turf It's always history, Triple Crown or not. Nobody...
June 05, 2009 3:28 AMIF YOU listen to experienced horsemen on the backstretch, Saturday's Belmont Stakes will be a one-horse rout: Charitable Man first, the rest nowhere. The unanimity among them is startling. Leading the pack at the...
June 04, 2009 3:49 AMIF American horseplayers at this time of the year look at trainer Nick Zito as if snake-bit, who can blame them? Nick has rocked 'em on their heels. It began in 2004, when reportedly the biggest crowd ever to...
June 03, 2009 2:58 AMTWO celebrated jockeys, light years apart in every way but riding at the peak of their form, will square off in Saturday's Belmont Stakes in a showdown that could turn out to be a thriller. In one corner is Calvin...
June 02, 2009 2:14 AMDUNKIRK, dubbed here as the Derby Dilemma horse because no one knew what to expect of him in the Kentucky Derby, is back to confuse the customers again in Saturday's Belmont Stakes. It's the same old guessing game...
June 01, 2009 2:39 AMTHERE was a widely-held assumption that next Saturday's Belmont Stakes was going to be a two-horse race, but with Rachel Alexandra's withdrawal last night, it's now down to one -- Mine That Bird. But should you bet...
May 30, 2009 4:04 AMBALTIMORE -- Against the euphoria of Rachel Alexandra's thrilling fireworks, a somber reality hung over the Preakness at Pimlico Saturday; the prospect that it might be the last Preakness ever run at the venerable old...
May 18, 2009 2:09 AMBALTIMORE -- They have been calling her Alexandra the Great but today she has a spanking new name. Call her Alexandra the Greatest. Rachel Alexandra, the filly hyped to the heavens as the finest of her gender since...
May 17, 2009 4:05 AMBALTIMORE -- Two weeks later, trainer Bob Baffert still is in shock that he lost the Kentucky Derby when Mine That Bird ran down his horse, Pioneerof the Nile, and zoomed off to win by more than six lengths. "At...
May 16, 2009 3:54 AMBALTIMORE -- In the racing business, sometimes there is no option but to bow to the inevitable, however uncomfortable, and tomorrow's running of the 134th Preakness is the time and place to do it. Thirteen horses...
May 15, 2009 3:39 AMBALTIMORE -- Mine That Bird, the Kentucky Derby idol, and Rachel Alexandra, his filly nemesis, took up their stations at Pimlico yesterday, spaced a few yards apart, but ready for what might be a historic showdown...
May 14, 2009 1:19 AMBALTIMORE -- As she is about to arrive at Pimlico, a fierce controversy is swirling over super filly Rachel Alexandra's entry into Saturday's Preakness Stakes. The question of the hour: Should she be unduly...
May 13, 2009 2:22 AMBALTIMORE -- So Calvin Borel is going to jump ship. Shame on him. Borel, everyone's favorite jockey after winning the Kentucky Derby on 50-1 shot Mine That Bird, has run out on the gallant little gelding for...
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