Jim Reisler

Many in the crowd of 43,416 fans who filed into Aqueduct Racetrack on April 21, 1973 for the 49th running for the Wood Memorial were expecting a rout.

Jim Reisler

Few other horses ever kicked off their 3-year-old season with the kind of fanfare that greeted Meadow Stable’s Secretariat 50 years ago.

Jim Reisler

Sentell “Sonny” Taylor, Jr., who went to work for the New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) as an assistant clocker on April 15, 1964 at Aqueduct Racetrack and built a career of nearly six decades as a racing official and ambassador for the sport, has announced his retirement.

Jim Reisler

On the road to the Triple Crown 50 years ago this spring, Secretariat did something unusual in his next-to-last tune-up race, the $50,000 1-mile Gotham on April 7, 1973 at Aqueduct.

NYRA Press Office

In the history of thoroughbred racing, there is arguably no story as fascinating as the life led by Jimmy Winkfield.

NYRA

​As a jockey, Francisco Barrera disciplined himself to laser-focus on the next race – “looking at what was just ahead of me,” as he put it, “and taking it one step at a time in order to do my best.”