TDN Writers' Room

David O'Rourke, the NYRA President and CEO, discusses the organization's successful Belmont weekend, the Belmont returning to Saratoga next year, and Belmont's hosting of the 2027 Breeders' Cup.

Jockey Junior Alvarado joined this week's TDN Writers' Room to discuss his win aboard Sovereignty in the GI Belmont Stakes and the long road it took to get back to the winner's circle after an injury earlier this year.

Trainer Jamie Osborne joins this week's TDN Writers' Room to discuss his Belmont contender Heart of Honor and share what it means to him to share the Triple Crown experience with his daughter, jockey Saffie Osborne.

In 10 days, Frank Mirahmadi will be in the announcers' booth to call the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga, both on-track and for the national Fox broadcast. His best trick to combat the nerves? His imagination. "Once the big Fox broadcast starts, there's no question the adrenaline goes to a new level," said Mirahmadi, appearing as the Gainesway Guest of the Week on the TDN Writers' Room podcast, presented by Keeneland. "The key with the big races--and I've learned this over many years, it's almost 30 years now that I'm calling...

Racecaller Frank Mirahmadi is counting down the days until this year's Belmont at Saratoga. He joined this week's TDN Writers' Room to discuss the upcoming Classic event and share his fondest racing memories.

Chef and racehorse owner Bobby Flay joined this week's TDN Writers' Room to discuss Crudo, a colt that he co-owns and that ran away with the Sir Barton Stakes on Preakness weekend. Will Crudo head to the Belmont next? Flay addresses this topic and much more.

After a historic weekend where Godolphin swept the worldwide classics, including a Kentucky Derby win with Sovereignty (Into Mischief), the colt's trainer Bill Mott appeared on the TDN Writers' Room podcast, presented by Keeneland, as the Gainesway Guest of the Week.

After a historic weekend where Godolphin swept the worldwide classics, including a Kentucky Derby win with Sovereignty (Into Mischief), the colt's trainer Bill Mott appeared on the TDN Writers' Room podcast, presented by Keeneland, as the Gainesway Guest of the Week. For Mott, it was his second Kentucky Derby win, following the promotion of Country House in the 2019 Derby after the disqualification of Maximum Security, and he admitted that this one was a big one. "It's pretty special, I've got to tell you," he said. "We really enjoyed Country...

Steve Kornacki is more than the political junkie who, for years, has had a way of explaining things when it comes to elections that help make everything make sense. He does so by turning statistics into an easy-to-understand formula and displaying his findings on an interactive map that is known as the big board. But Kornacki sometimes needs a break from politics, and he has found one in horse racing. It's been his passion since his uncle started taking him to the harness races at Scarborough Downs in Maine. He...

NBC Racing analyst Steve Kornacki joins the TDN Writers' Room's Kentucky Derby Show. Plus, our hosts participate in a Derby-Oaks draft.

Griffin Johnson is one of the internet's most popular influencers, and as a 2.5% owner in Sandman, he has now turned his attention to the Kentucky Derby, where Sandman will go off as one of the favorites. He joins the TDN Writers' Room to talk about young people and horse racing.

Jockey Umberto Rispoli will take on his third Kentucky Derby this year, but this time it will be with one of the likely favorites among the contenders in Michael McCarthy trainee Journalism. Rispoli discusses the promising 3-year-old in this week's TDN Writers' Room.