Ron Gierkink is based in Toronto and covers Woodbine as a handicapper and reporter. He joined Daily Racing Form in 1988.

Trainer Aidan O'Brien stands an excellent change of extending his record for most English Derby winners to 11, when he starts Delacroix for his principal client, Coolmore, in the classic Saturday ...

Chad Brown came into Saturday with 24 turf stakes wins at Monmouth Park since 2020, 17 more than the next-highest total for a trainer. Brown came out of Saturday with two more turf stakes wins, as ...

An arbitrator for the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit has used evidence drawn from the testing of hair samples to lengthen a suspension given to a trainer for a violation of the rules for ...

When France's leading trainer Francis-Henri Graffard ran Mandanaba in the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches, surely he hoped to win France's 1000 Guineas. But the Pouliches also served as a means to an ...

Judge a horse by the company she keeps and Bourbon Breeze rates an upset chance in the featured eighth race Sunday at Churchill. She's entered under an $80,000 claiming option Sunday in a 6 1/2 ...