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By Mike Farrell The long and winding road that is the New York Racing Association’s 2021 graded stakes schedule concludes Saturday with a quartet of races topped by the Cigar Mile (G1). The card also includes a pair of Grade 2 stakes for juveniles: the Remsen and the Demoiselle for fillies. The Go For Wand (G3) for older fillies and mares rounds out the program. The Cigar Mile should be a solid event, if the horses under consideration show up for the contest. Likely runners include Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) winner Aloha West, multiple Grade 1 winner Code of Honor,

By Richard Rosenblatt It seems fitting to toss out a few Turkey Tributes after a holiday weekend stuffed with standout performances from Aqueduct to Churchill Downs to Del Mar to Woodbine. Cheers to Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux, who seems to be back in the riding groove following victories at Del Mar in the $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup (G2) aboard Say the Word ($13) on Friday and the $400,000 Hollywood Derby (G1) aboard Beyond Brilliant ($23.80) on Saturday. And well done to Maxfield in the final race of his short but stellar career. The 4-year-old won the $750,000 Clark

By Richard Rosenblatt Del Mar’s Turf Festival closes out the track’s fall meeting over this holiday weekend, ending a successful run that began with the 36th Breeders’ Cup in early November. Starting Friday, Del Mar features six graded stakes on the turf, including a pair of Grade 1s – the Hollywood Derby on Saturday and the Matriarch Stakes on Sunday. The other turf stakes at Del Mar are the Hollywood Turf Cup (G2) on Friday, the Seabiscuit Handicap (G2) and the Jimmy Durante Stakes (G3) on Saturday, and the Cecil B. DeMille Stakes (G3) on Sunday. Trainer Chad Brown sent

Margaret Ransom is an award-winning writer who has worked in the horse racing industry for decades who recently moved to Texas from California and started The Bridge Sanctuary. Its mission is to bridge the gap from forgotten horses to forever safe horses. Here’s her latest rescue story. By Margaret Ransom I want to tell you all about Atticus. Even though Atticus is nothing special by thoroughbred industry standards, he happens to be special to me and all of us here at The Bridge. So far, almost all the critters who have passed through the gates here have been relatively easy;

By Ed McNamara There’s always a hangover after the Breeders’ Cup, the final exam for horseplayers. If you did well, you have happy memories. If not, like me, you soured on the game temporarily. As Frank Sinatra sang in “My Way”: “Regrets, I have a few.” Here’s why I’ve been beating myself up lately. After obsessively researching the turf races, I spoke with my friend Craig, also a connoisseur of grass racing. He mentioned there was a Saturday pick 4 linking the Turf Sprint, Filly & Mare Turf, Mile and Turf. “This is right up our alley,” he said. No

By Ray Wallin It feels good to win. It feels bad to lose. Your ego will either make you feel like a success or an utter failure. Spending time thinking either way is a surefire way to lose money at the track. When we lose and see others win, we are often resentful that someone else figured the race correctly and we didn’t. When we win, we think we are smarter than the next handicapper. In our minds it is a criticism of our handicapping. Where there is criticism, there is a reaction. Regardless of winning or losing, the reaction