Vermont

"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,...

The Vermont Arson Tip Award Program is offering a $5,000 reward for information that will lead to the arrest of anyone involved in the suspicious fire that consumed the Green Mountain Park grandstand in the overnight hours of Sept. 15-17. The former track, located in the southern Vermont town of Pownal near the borders of Massachusetts and New York, last ran a Thoroughbred meet in 1976 and had been closed for racing since 1991 after converting to a greyhound configuration. The building was abandoned and no one was hurt in...