After 50 years as a graded stakes, all but one of the last forty as a G2 event, the Bernard Baruch Handicap has been downgraded to listed status for its 2023 running. The list of past winners of the mile-and-a-sixteenth race includes such notables as Lure, Steinlen, Furiously, Fourstars Allstar and Wise Dan. The five […]
Hall of Fame trainer James “Sunny Jim” Fitzsimmons had the highest of opinions regarding Gallant Fox, the first of his two Triple Crown winners. “Gallant Fox was the best 3-year-old I ever handled, perhaps the greatest 3-year-old that ever lived,” Fitzsimmons said. Fitzsimmons is regarded by many as the greatest trainer of all time. He […]