Senator Tommy Tomlinson Confident Race Horse Development Fund is Safe
February 15th, 2021Article by Dick Jerardi State Senator Tommy Tomlinson has been in the Pennsylvania legislature for 30 years, first in the House of Representatives and now serving his seventh term in the Senate, representing Bucks County. He knows precisely how
Let’s Go Racing is on the Radio!!
We have a brand new radio show! Join Bruce Casella & Dick Jerardi along with guests: Sal DeBunda, Gov. Ed Rendell, Top Trainers Butch Reid, Kate Demasi Smarty Jones Trainer John Servis & winning owner John Fanelli!
Miguel Penaloza Wins Big One at Laurel
February 23rd, 2021Article by Dick jerardi Like so many others in the sport, Parx trainer Miguel Penaloza had a rough 2020. After his stable had 37 wins and earned $1,261,787 in 2019, it was just nine wins last year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNnK7Hlco5c&feature=emb_logo Last Saturday, however,
The Florida Mystery
March 1st, 2021Article by Dick Jerardi Featured Photo by Coglianese Photos / Dom Napolitano If something happens once, perhaps it’s a coincidence. If it happens twice, you start to wonder. If it happens three times, it starts to become a pattern. It
Big Race Weekend
March 9th, 2021By Dick Jerardi Parx-based horses were in three major stakes races last Saturday in New York. None won, but several gave good accounts of themselves. And there was a Parx legend in one of those races who demonstrated exactly
The Baffert Factor
March 16th, 2021Article by Dick jerardi Basketball has LeBron James. Football has Tom Brady. Horse racing has Bob Baffert The legendary trainer is loaded again with a major talent for the May 1 Kentucky Derby, a race he has already won a
Life Is Good Out of Derby
March 22nd, 2021Article by Dick Jerardi There were just six weeks until the Kentucky Derby when unbeaten Life is Good finished off a tour de force workout last Saturday at Santa Anita Park. When the brilliant colt left the track, he
CURRENT REALITY AT PARX RACING
By Let's Go Racing Parx, 26th March 2021 By Dick Jerardi In my 33 years covering horse racing at the “Philadelphia Daily News,’’ I was never shy about criticism when criticism was necessary. When I set out to right a perceived wrong,
Kendrick Carmouche in First Derby
April 5th, 2021by Dick Jerardi When 2021 began, there were serious hopes that a Parx-based horse would make the Kentucky Derby. Well, there won’t be a horse, but there will be a jockey (albeit a graduate), one of the very best in
Ten Straight For Ness at Parx
April 11th, 2021by Dick Jerardi It began on the last Tuesday of March and ended on the first Tuesday of April. As it took a week, Jamie Ness did not realize it was happening until it was almost over. Since Keystone/Philadelphia Park/Parx