Rick Dutrow

In gathering darkness last Saturday at Belmont Park, trainer Nick Zito watched as horses walked on a dirt path inside his backstretch barn, cooling themselves after racing in punishing 90° heat. A tall, brown colt...

One of the most tumultuous and controversial Triple Crown seasons in history is finished. Many questions remain about the five weeks just finished and about the years ahead for horse racing. Some of the questions,...

ELMONT, N.Y. -- He leaned over a worn-down wooden railing outside Barn 11, supporting himself on his forearms, staring with deep despair into the Belmont Stakes' post-race holding stables. His horse, Big Brown, was...

ELMONT, N.Y .-- We all fell for it, and we should have known better. After five weeks spent watching Big Brown dominate races in Kentucky and Maryland, it was just too easy to go along with trainer Rick Dutrow when...

To a nation of sports fans, Rick Dutrow is something of an anomaly. Daily, weekly, yearly, we are inundated with banalities from the athletes who play the games we love to watch, with the sort of one-game-at-a-time...