Neil Milbert

Starting Sunday, Chicago's three harness racing tracks--Balmoral Park, Maywood Park and Hawthorne Race Course--will spend three months playing musical sulkies. The unprecedented schedule will have Hawthorne racing on Sunday, Monday,...

It appears the Preakness will attract a full field of 14 horses for the first time since 1992. If more than 14 are entered by Wednesday, a three-tiered earnings format...

High Fly could soar If Nick Zito decides to run High Fly, he's my early pick. True, he finished 10th in the Kentucky Derby but if you probe the Preakness...

1. July 2 The Grade III $150,000 Arlington Classic kicks off the Mid-America Triple series of grass races for 3-year-olds. 2. July 23 Million Preview Day has yet to produce...

When I arrived at Marquette as a freshman from Dyersville, Iowa, in the fall of 1956 and got in some pickup basketball games on the outdoor courts, I discovered the...

1. Eusebio Razo Second in the standings the last two years, he's the jockey champion heir apparent now that Rene Douglas, who took the title for four straight years, is...

The Derby has a maximum field of 20, and it is determined by graded-stakes earnings. The draw for the field is Wednesday. Afleet Alex ($1,245,000): Last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile...

Pat Day's top finishes at Churchill Downs, including a 1992 win. 1. 1992: Lil E. Tee Derby winner Lil E. Tee was a 17-1 long shot and was running 12th...

B. Wayne Hughes thought he had a Kentucky Derby horse. He just didn't think it would turn out to be Greeley's Galaxy. "Mr. Hughes had another horse he had a...

Fairleigh Dickinson coach Tom Green took a page out of retiring Purdue coach Gene Keady's psychology book in preparing his 16th-seeded team for Thursday's NCAA tournament first-round game against top-seeded...