Ron Gierkink is based in Toronto and covers Woodbine as a handicapper and reporter. He joined Daily Racing Form in 1988.

Betting on the Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore jumped 11.3 percent compared to last year despite the defection of the Kentucky Derby winner, according to charts of ...

Two days from Guineas Day at Longchamp, France-based fillies dominated antepost betting on the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches, the 1000 Guineas, while the market favored shippers from Ireland and ...

In deep stretch of Saturday’s 150th Preakness Stakes, trainer Michael McCarthy thought he was going to witness history repeating itself from two weeks ago in the Kentucky Derby.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – There are a million ways to celebrate Memorial Day, but trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. may have found a new one. This past Monday, Joseph spent the afternoon sitting in his ...

Could he have won? At least finished in the top 4? No one ever will know how Burnham Squared would have fared in the Kentucky Derby had he not been checked hard before the far turn, dropping back ...

American Flag, who won the 1925 Belmont Stakes, is from one of the most successful sirelines in that classic’s history. But it was through his daughters, not his sons, that American Flag left ...

Two Sharp started her 4-year-old campaign the same way she ended her 3-year-old season – impressively winning a stakes at Churchill Downs. Two Sharp showed brilliant speed to make an early lead ...

The question regarding the J.T. Lockinge Stakes on Saturday at Newbury: Do you want two 4-year-olds who excelled as sophomores or a different one, Dancing Gemini, who had a somewhat lost 3-year ...

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Red River Rebel and Tap Gold, a couple of 7-year-old warhorses who finished noses apart when second and third, respectively, behind Chess Master in their most recent ...

Utah Beach invaded Churchill Downs from his Keeneland base and on Saturday night did in the Louisville Stakes what he’d done last month in the Elkhorn back on his home course – win a 1 1/2 ...

Baeza, third in the Kentucky Derby on May 3, worked a slow half-mile in 53.60 seconds at Santa Anita on Friday in preparation for a scheduled start in the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes at Saratoga on June 7.