Nostalgic Horse

by Jarrod Horak Bayakoa, one of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred racing champions of the 20th century, was a two-time Breeders’ Cup Distaff and Eclipse award winning mare in 1989 and 1990. The South American wonder woman was trained by Ron McAnally, and the Hall of Fame miss left us in 1997 due to complications [...]

Check out our new article Top Horses of the Eightes. Or, some of our previous work: Top Horses of the Nineties and our Top Ten Forgotten Horses.

The smoke has cleared from Saturday’s disaster at Keeneland, and one horse is left standing, albeit on three legs. It did not happen at the Preakness, and it wasn’t watched by millions of at home television viewers so no one seems interested in covering this story, but we at Nostalgic Horse are very interested in [...]

Many were sad to see Rags to Riches get beat. They had put her on a pedestal that only the immortals of the sport had previously occupied. She was compared to Ruffian, Lady’s Secret, Personal Ensign, all of them. And in one fell swoop the Belmont winner’s quest for immortality ended. Or did it? Lear’s [...]

I have been away so I am now catching up on all things thoroughbreds. This is a most exciting time of year, especially with the Breeders Cup being only one month away and the picture for champs is still pretty cloudy. The end of this month should clear things up a bit. Rags to Riches [...]

Another Travers is in the record books, and the outcome was hardly surprising. It certainly wasn’t surprising that Street Sense won, and it wasn’t surprising that it wasn’t a cakewalk for this horse either. Trainer Ken McPeek said this weekend, “Street Sense is a great horse, no ifs, ands, or buts.” Is he? Sorry we [...]