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

Central Banker has claimed four straight titles as New York's leading general sire. As he eyes a fifth, his New York-bred champion Bank Frenzy will be one of his runners on Wednesday's statebred ...

In the past, she’d get in too much of a hurry, but Future Is Now just needed time to figure it all out. Maturation – and uniting with jockey Paco Lopez – turned Future Is Now from a one-way ...

A mere month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), Rhode Island passed a budget that legalized retail sports betting in the state.

Weekend GamePlan: Picks for Regret, Jersey Derby, Eclipse, Mechaya, Outrunner, Dataman ...

Unlike virtually all other Bible Belt states, Arkansas was an early adopter of legal sports betting, kicking off retail wagering in 2019 and the mobile version in 2022. Oaklawn Park, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spaliday won her first stakes race, the Boiling Spring, last summer at Monmouth Park and affirmed her fondness for the local lawn with a last-to-first victory Sunday in the $102,000 Miss Liberty ...

With increasing frequency, American horses who ship for a race on the Dubai World Cup card don't get the long post-Dubai rest they used to. Take Super Chow. He ran below his best form April 5 ...

After hitting an outer ring on the target a couple times in stakes competition, Marksman Queen finally nailed a bull's-eye, leading from start to finish for her first stakes win in the $219,655 ...

Bob Baffert not only returned to the Kentucky Derby this year for the first time since 2021, he left a small string at Churchill Downs after Derby week. Among them: Hope Road, who will take no end ...