Warren Eves | September 29, 2012
By Warren Eves Jay Richards, former turf editor of the Las Vegas Review Journal, has strong views when it comes to those who cheat in horse racing. Over the years we have exchanged views on illegal drug use in the world around us. For years I’ve documented the cheating [...]
Warren Eves | October 13, 2011
By Warren Eves Leave it to Jerry Hollandorfer to make a timely claim. As soon as we watched For You My Heart re-break to win the fourth at Santa Anita Thursday October 13 we went to the Daily Racing Form to check the chart for claims. [...]
Warren Eves | June 7, 2011
How good could former claimer Derwin’s Star be? Derwin’s Star had not been seen since she made it look easy winning the $400,000 Charles Town Oaks under the lights September 18. Tuesday June 7th she returned to the races and won an allowance at Parx looking none the [...]
Warren Eves | April 1, 2011
By Warren Eves Trainer Larry Pilotti has been active at the claim box down in Florida. It would be great if Pilotti could have met the late Bobby Frankel to talk about claiming horses. One summer at Hollywood Park I got Bobby to sit down and talk. [...]
Warren Eves | March 3, 2011
By Warren Eves You never know where a nugget is going to surface. We went to the ninth race on the Tampa Bay Downs card Thursday afternoon. We wanted to see how Extraextraordinary made out. He’s another one of those Giant’s Causeway colts who was second in his debut last [...]
Warren H. Eves | February 3, 2011
By Warren Eves Look what we found at Tampa Bay Downs. Check out “notes” below on Derby prospect Toby’s Corner going in $100,000 Whirlaway at Aqueduct. On a slow Wednesday at Tampa Bay Downs we came across something totally unexpected. [...]
Warren H. Eves | February 1, 2011
By Warren Eves Guess who may be coming to dinner in Louisville May 7–96 days from now? Nick Zito that’s who. He assuredly has hopes to be bringing his top sophomore grade earner Dialed In. Even though I am not putting myself through the rigors of rating the [...]
Warren Eves | May 22, 2010
By Warren Eves Hopefully Santa Anita will change venue after what took place at Monmouth Park. Many have pleaded, some have waited far too long, and the old school doesn’t seem to see the urgency for change. This writer was among those who got involved Saturday. Big [...]
Warren Eves | March 21, 2010
By Warren Eves What’s next? When I went to review the first race at Aqueduct Sunday there was no race to be found. Associated Press reported the following. Action had been taken on the part of the horsemen to protest New York state’s failure to name [...]
