Harvey Clarke Racing Stables

"It was great," Steve Shahinian says, thinking back to his show-jumping days. "But it was just a little boring, compared with racing. And I thought racing was something I could figure out." Over 40 years on, how is that project progressing? Shahinian, a man lacking neither humor nor candor, offers a wry look. "I've sort of half-figured it out," he says. A pretty modest verdict, considering his role in the making of one of the best sophomores around. Gosger (Nyquist) again pushed Journalism (Curlin) hard in the GI Haskell Stakes,...

Harvey A. Clarke Racing Stables' Gosger (Nyquist), who opened a five-length lead in the May 17 GI Preakness Stakes into the final furlong before being run down in the final strides by Journalism (Curlin), will reportedly not contest the final leg of this year's Triple Crown, the GI Belmont Stakes at Saratoga June 7 trainer Brendan Walsh told Daily Racing Form Wednesday. The conditioner first mentioned the decision on At the Races With Steve Byk in the immediate aftermath of the Preakness Monday morning. Trained by Brendan Walsh, the homebred...