By Ray Paulick To hear Carl Pascarella tell it, you’d think corporate marketers would have lined up from Louisville, Ky., all the way to New York’s Madison Avenue to bid on the Triple Crown sponsorship that Visa USA dropped in 1995 after a 10-year run. The relationship between the Triple...

By Ray Paulick The head of security for the New York Racing Association told the Paulick Report Tuesday that no security resources were used to protect IEAH president Michael Iavarone on Belmont Stakes Day, June 7, the day Iavarone said he had been the subject of a “serious death threat.”...

By Ray Paulick In the nine hours of Breeders’ Cup telecasts last Friday and Saturday, the strangest segment by far came during a brief interview between comedic sportscaster Kenny Mayne and Michael Iavarone, president of the IEAH stable that owns a majority of Big Brown, when Iavarone said he and...

Among the many laments that followed the announcement of Big Brown’s not-quite-surprising, injury-induced retirement on Monday was the notion that he is now denied the opportunity to establish himself as a “great horse.” Indeed, that term was being applied, however rapturously, last spring, before the...

By Jenny Kellner / NYRA There was a time earlier this year that nearly every Kentucky Derby poll had Pyro on or close to the top of the list. Overshadowed at age 2 by juvenile champion War Pass, who had beaten him three straight times, the son of Pulpit finally got everyone’s attention in February with...

Rizzi’s Twist blew past Under Serviced and Jovanna and won the fifth race at Belmont Park on Saturday. Bruce Levine keeps rolling along and it has been a long roll through the Aqueduct winter, the spring at Belmont and summer on both side of the Hudson. Along the way, he has raised both eyebrows and...

Big Brown's dislodged shoe will be speculated forever. The only thing we know for sure is that people will have different opinions......( read more )

By now, we’ve all seen an extreme magnification that shows clearly a separation between the shoe nailed to Big Brown’s right-hind hoof and the foot itself, a loose nail perhaps, and another vague potential excuse for the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner’s failure to complete the course in the Belmont...

Photos are now being posted at ESPN showing that Big Brown, the 3-year-old son of Boundary that took a run at the Triple Crown earlier this year, may have been running with a loose shoe during the Belmont. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/gallery/enlargePhoto?id=3457690&story=3456907 Rumor of the photos...

There’s more stuff still buzzing around in the aftermath of Saturday’s train wreck at Belmont Park than has followed any of the many Triple Crown failures of the last three decades. The television rating were terrific while the New York Racing Association was successful in drawing the smallest live crowd...