In recent years, the Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct has produced Kentucky Derby top-three finishers Sierra Leone (second in 2024) and Zandon (third in 2022), a pair of Grade 1 winners trained by Chad Brown.
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NTRA and Resolute Racing Present Sweepstakes Offering Trip to Eclipse Awards, Pegasus World Cup
Ron McAnally: The Making of a Masterful Horseman
Ron McAnally remembers one element above all others from the formative years he spent at the Covington Protestant Children’s Home, an orphanage in northern Kentucky. He will never forget the view. “They tell me I used to sit at the window and stare for hours,” he said. “I wouldn’t talk to anybody.” McAnally was at the tender age of 5 when he and his four siblings were sent to the home following the death of their mother. He sought comfort wherever he could find it, even at a window.
Six Fabulous Ideas for Your Visit to Hot Springs for the Oaklawn Park Meet
“Someone suggested that there's an incomplete part of our chromosomes that gets repaired or found when we hit New Orleans. Some of us just belong here.” —actor John Goodman While the Big Easy is uniquely grand (and boasts Fair Grounds), for many years I have felt this way about Hot Springs, Ark. I relax a bit when we exit I-30 and merge onto the wooded Highway 70, with Spa City 27 miles away. I fully exhale when my feet touch Central Avenue.
