Ray Kerrison joined the Post in 1977. He has been a turf columnist for 18 years and a general columnist for 14 years, covering thoroughbred races in the United States and France, presidential conventions and elections, business, budgets, education and social issues. He won a Page One Award from the New York Newspaper Guild and the Society of Silurians Award for investigative reporting.
OCEANPORT, N.J. -- The Haskell Invitational has long been the alpha and omega of New Jersey thoroughbred racing, a million dollar Grade 1 showcase, the historic bridge between the Triple Crown and the Travers Stakes at...
August 01, 2011 12:00 AM
OCEANPORT, N.J. — The sun-baked Jersey shore turns up the heat another notch today when two Triple Crown classic stars — Shackleford and Ruler On Ice — go at it in the $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park....
July 31, 2011 2:26 AM
Battered horseplayers coast-to-coast, stung by an unprecedented stream of upsets in the major 3-year-old races, buckled under the last straw when Ruler On Ice rolled to a 24-1 victory in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday....
June 13, 2011 12:00 AMOn a sodden day more suited to ducks than horses, an unsung, unheralded gelding from nowhere by the name of Ruler On Ice sloshed through the slop to win the 143rd Belmont Stakes yesterday and drive the final nail in the...
June 12, 2011 12:10 AM
Start spreadin’ the news. Animal Kingdom, who made his name out of town, has brought his act to New York for today’s Belmont Stakes and the question on everyone’s lips is: He made it there, but can he make it here? By...
June 11, 2011 2:13 AMAt the end of the long, exhilarating -- and unfathomable -- Triple Crown trail, four horses have established a clear and convincing superiority over the 2011 crop of three-year-olds. They are Animal Kingdom,...
June 10, 2011 12:00 AMIt would not be the Belmont Stakes without a fly in the ointment to confuse horseplayers searching for the winner. The snag in this Saturday's Belmont is easily identified: Master of Hounds, the Irish shipper. What...
June 09, 2011 12:00 AM
IF you want to ponder how unpredictable -- and exciting -- the racing business can be, consider the case of Brilliant Speed, a dark-horse candidate in this Saturday's Belmont Stakes. In February, the three-year-old...
June 08, 2011 12:00 AMThe Belmont Stakes on Saturday is being trumpeted as a showdown match between the Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom and his Preakness conqueror, Shackleford. Not so fast. Lurking in the wings at Barn 58 is a...
June 07, 2011 12:00 AMThe Belmont Stakes, sometimes dismissed when no Triple Crown is at stake, remains the biggest horse race in New York, its biggest racing draw card, its biggest one-day betting bonanza -- and the last surviving pillar...
June 06, 2011 12:00 AM
BALTIMORE -- Wall Street sharpies like to say, "the trend's your friend," so many of us went to Pimlico Saturday wondering what surprise would jump up and bite the Preakness. Sure enough, following the bloodbath...
May 23, 2011 12:00 AM
BALTIMORE — Another year, another Preakness and another Triple Crown bust. In a year marked by one sensational upset after another in all the important three-year-old races leading up to the Preakness, the second jewel...
May 22, 2011 12:46 AMBALTIMORE — Three giants of the American training profession — Todd Pletcher, Bob Baffert and Steve Asmussen — will saddle horses in the Preakness today and, surprisingly, all three are listed as long shots. It’s more...
May 21, 2011 2:41 AM
BALTIMORE -- In an ordinary year, finding the winner of tomorrow's $1 million Preakness Stakes would be like shooting fish in a barrel. It would be one of these three horses: Animal Kingdom, Dialed In or Mucho Macho...
May 20, 2011 12:00 AM
BALTIMORE -- If you believe in miracles, King Congie might be the horse for you to bet in the Preakness Stakes on Saturday. First, the horse is a 20-1 longshot, which alone might make him eligible for a miracle....
May 19, 2011 12:00 AM
BALTIMORE -- Animal Kingdom's shock 20-1 win in the Kentucky Derby drew a blistering response yesterday from Jerry Brown, one of America's most prominent horse racing experts, who called it the triumph "of a crap shoot...
May 18, 2011 12:00 AM
BALTIMORE -- The Triple Crown road show pulls into Pimlico this week for the Preak ness, an event that threatens to drive America's horseplayers over the cliff. Never have they had to endure a spring quite like...
May 17, 2011 12:00 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- For the first time in memory, the winner of the Kentucky Derby has spread a sour taste across the land. And that's too bad because the people associated with Animal Kingdom, the 20-1 surprise...
May 09, 2011 12:00 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Before the biggest crowd ever to jam into historic Churchill Downs in its 137 years, Barry Irwin, an old racetrack writer, owner and promoter stood up and blurted, "I can't believe it, I can't...
May 08, 2011 12:00 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Two men, who have suffered the cruelest blow in all of racing, have a chance to rebound in glory and make history in this afternoon's Kentucky Derby. The men are Ahmed Zayat, a Jewish businessman...
May 07, 2011 12:00 AMLOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The public will bet at least $105 million on the Kentucky Derby tomorrow and nearly every buck that goes through the windows will be a guess bet because not even Nostradamus could predict the winner....
May 06, 2011 12:00 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- No horse going into Saturday's Kentucky Derby can boast a better performance profile, a faster speed chart or a better work pattern than the horse with the most ridiculous name -- Archarcharch....
May 05, 2011 12:00 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A woman with a heart transplant is the trainer for a horse nicknamed Lazarus -- because he "rose from the dead" -- who is a leading contender to win Saturday's Kentucky Derby. Talk about drama and...
May 04, 2011 12:19 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Could this be the year trainer Nick Zito wins the Kentucky Derby and finally shakes the jinx that drove him to the brink last year? Zito will saddle Dialed In, the possible favorite in the Derby,...
May 03, 2011 12:00 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The slowest bunch of horses in 20 years are set to go in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, turning America's greatest horse race into a bettor's dream or, depending on your luck, nightmare. The...
May 02, 2011 12:00 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- "It was my fault. We should have won." Jockey Mike Smith, sobbing in frustration and disappointment, blamed himself for the defeat of the mighty mare Zenyatta in yesterday's Breeders' Cup Classic,...
November 07, 2010 1:00 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Go, baby, go! Racing’s universal cry will roar out of millions of throats this evening when Zenyatta, the nation’s celebrity of the hour, unleashes her spine-tingling stretch run in her bid to win the...
November 06, 2010 12:00 AMLOUISVILLE, Ky. -- To bet Zenyatta or not to bet her -- that's the question and the dilemma rippling across the land as the American idol faces the stiffest challenge of her life in the Breeders' Cup Classic at...
November 05, 2010 12:00 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Bob Baffert, the terror of the training game, last week asked his five-year-old son Bode to name the fastest racehorse in America. "Zenyatta," the boy replied. Baffert asked, "Why do you say she...
November 04, 2010 12:00 AM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- After two years of dodging and weaving, debate and acrimony, perfection and doubt, Zenyatta, the magic icon of thoroughbred racing, finally is about to lay her reputation and title on the line. In...
November 03, 2010 12:00 AM
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