Lorne Richards

The champion of his generation in Canada in 2024 and the reigning Sovereign Award-winning older dirt male, Dresden Row (Lord Nelson) was entered for, but scratched from last Saturday's GIII Dinner Party Stakes at Laurel, for which he was the 7-5 morning-line favorite, opting instead for this high-level allowance Thursday evening at Churchill Downs. A two-time graded winner at three and victorious in the GII Autumn Stakes last November for True North Stable and Jeff Bloom's Bloom Racing Stable and trainer Lorne Richards, Dresden Row topped this year's Fasig-Tipton Digital...

With so many roads now leading to Del Mar, traffic may feel pretty slow just now. But we should make a virtue of that, in that our preoccupation with the elite program tends to deny due attention to those achieving their success a tier or so below the very top. After all, such people have typically required no less skill, endeavor and patience, often denied the very highest rewards only through lacking similar parity in resources. Take the breeder of GIII Ontario Derby winner Dresden Row (Lord Nelson), whose emergence...