©Tod Marks Stone Farm and Upland Flats Racing’s Swore, who captured the Grade 1 Lonesome Glory at Aqueduct in September, proved his mettle against less-experienced foes as much the best in the Aflac Supreme novice stakes, Saturday’s feature at the Pine Mountain, Ga., course. With Stephen Mulqueen riding for trainer Keri Brion, the six-year-old son…

©Tod Marks The National Steeplechase Association has combined the Aiken Fall and Colonial Cup meets on the closing weekend of the season, a 12-race, $500,000 extravaganza in which several championships will be decided. First race post time both days is 1 p.m. There’s plenty of drama left in the 2025 NSA season as the jumpers…

©Tod Marks Cool Jet crushes field in G3 Noel Laing and becomes season’s only three-time graded stakes winner  Last weekend featured a trio of stakes races in Virginia and Pennsylvania headed by the Grade 3 $75,000 Noel Laing at Montpelier, which cast leading NSA owner Riverdee Stable in the spotlight once again.   The race also…

©Tod Marks The jumpers land in Virginia on Saturday, and Pennsylvania on Sunday as the National Steeplechase Association season steams toward the finish line in Camden, S.C., on Nov. 23. At the Montpelier Hunt Races, run on the front lawn of President James Madison’s historic home in Montpelier Station, Va., 53 horses have been entered…

©Tod Marks Racing returned to Virginia for the third of four times this fall, and on a picture-perfect autumn afternoon, one of the sport’s rising superstars cemented his place as a champion. At the International Gold Cup Races at Great Meadow Race Course in the Plains, Va., on Saturday, Dolly Fisher’s Keys Discount turned heads…