Coastal

With so many handicappers and Triple Crown fans intent on riding the Charitable Man bandwagon into the Belmont Stakes winners‘ circle on Saturday, I offer this embellishment-free memory. I do this because I can never look at another impressive Peter Pan Stakes winner and not think of Coastal, and I ...Read More

June 18, 1979 Since Sir Barton first won the Triple Crown of American Thoroughbred racing in 1919, eight horses have captured the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes, only to have their hopes founder over the grueling 1½-mile distance of the Belmont Stakes. Read More

General Assembly romps in the 1979 Travers by 15 lengths in the mudRead More