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By Richard Rosenblatt With the holiday season fast approaching – along with the end of 2020 — it seems like an appropriate time to sit back, take a deep breath, and think about … the Kentucky Derby (G1)! And why not? After all, the Run for the Roses is just over five months away – for now scheduled on its traditional date, the first Saturday in May — and back as the first leg of the Triple Crown. Churchill Downs on Monday (Nov. 23) announced that its first Derby Future Wager opens Thursday (Nov. 26), with Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1)

By John Furgele The TVG Finals at The Meadowlands on Nov. 21 brought together some of harness racing’s most popular performers who wrapped up their careers in style. The Finals comprised four of the 13 races on the card, with the $320,000 TVG Open Final kicking things off as race 2. Manchego, in her final start, was sent off the narrow even-money favorite over Atlanta in the field of five, and she didn’t disappoint, taking the lead in the stretch to win in 1:51.3. The win was her 33rd in 56 career starts and pushed her earnings to $2.72 million.

By Margaret Ransom For apprentice jockey Kody Kellenberger, this year’s Fair Grounds meeting is a bit of a case of finally finishing what he started. Eight months ago, during the waning weeks of the 2019-2020 meet, the now 24-year-old was forced to abruptly end his fairly prosperous first season at the New Orleans oval early after one of his mounts stumbled badly after the wire, launching him onto the track and breaking his collarbone. The injury also came at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the young rider, who had only started as a professional four months earlier, got

By Noel Michaels The second half of November and early December is truly one of the great times of year for horseplayers. Thanksgiving weekend has something for all racing fans, and the premier tracks are set to offer up one last hurrah to cap-off the fall post Breeders’ Cup racing season. And the few weeks following Thanksgiving, there will be extra helpings of great racing all over the country. Important and high-quality late fall racing revolves mainly around three tracks – Del Mar, Churchill Downs and Aqueduct – through early December. This is great for handicappers because it makes it

By Ed McNamara In a heartbreaking year in which COVID-19 overwhelmed us, horse racing soldiered on. Despite track shutdowns, scrambled schedules and empty stands, the sport provided a desperately needed distraction and, as always, many memorable moments. Here’s 10: 1 AUTHENTIC Front-running colt embodied the essence of the thoroughbred — brilliance — as he came within a neck of sweeping the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Breeders’ Cup Classic. Only Triple Crown hero American Pharoah ever won all three. A lock for Horse of the Year. 2 GIRL POWER Swiss Skydiver became only the sixth filly, and the first since Rachel

By Ed McNamara In a heartbreaking year in which COVID-19 overwhelmed us, horse racing soldiered on. Despite track shutdowns, scrambled schedules and empty stands, the sport provided a desperately needed distraction and, as always, many memorable moments. Here’s 10: 1 AUTHENTIC Front-running colt embodied the essence of the thoroughbred — brilliance — as he came within a neck of sweeping the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Breeders’ Cup Classic. Only Triple Crown hero American Pharoah ever won all three. A lock for Horse of the Year. 2 GIRL POWER Swiss Skydiver became only the sixth filly, and the first since Rachel