CALUM McCLURKIN: Late calls are part of the game and it’s a show of strength from Mullins
With the Cheltenham Festival just round the corner, we know most of the targets for the big guns.
Category: Horse Racing News
Favored Iron Honor Joins the Derby Trail with Gotham Stakes Win at Aqueduct
Historians will note that a Gotham Stakes winner has not captured the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve since the immortal Secretariat in 1973.
NTRA Crowns Dave Nichols of Wayne, Pa. 2025 NHC Tour Champion
Topping a field of more than 3,725 of the nation’s best horseplayers over a 12-month period, Dave Nichols of Wayne, PA, captured the 2025 National Horseplayers Championship (NHC) Tour. Nichols earned $75,000 for winning the NHC Tour and is eligible for a $5 million bonus if he captures the 27th NTRA National Horseplayers Championship (NHC), March 13-15 at Horseshoe Las Vegas.
Perseverance Made Sylvia Bishop a Racing Pioneer: ‘I Knew What I Wanted to Do’
Sylvia Rideoutt Bishop did not set out to become the first black woman licensed to train racehorses in the United States. Horses were a part of her, and she wanted to make her living training them. Her perseverance not only made her a pioneer, but it also sparked a legacy of generations that followed her into the game, ensuring that her name would live on long beyond her days on the racetrack. For the Love of the Horse
