©Tod Marks The key contenders, based on the morning-line odds $75,000 Harry Harris Four-Year-Old Stakes; 2 ⅛ miles Gordon Elliott has the 2-1 morning line favorite in Erdenheim Farm Thoroughbreds’ Chortal, who will be ridden by Jack Kennedy. The son of Golden Horn exits an allowance win over hurdles at Perth in England as the…

Three stakes – two over timber and a $50,000 hurdle event for three-year-old jumpers – highlight this Saturday’s National Steeplechase Association doubleheader in New York and Virginia – the one and only time two meets will share the same date on the fall calendar. At the Genesee Valley Hunt Races in Geneseo, N.Y., the only…

©Tod Marks The stage is set for American steeplechasing’s richest showcase day. The 104th Far Hills Races in Somerset County, N.J., will feature a star-studded, six-race, all stakes lineup and $795,000 in prize money.  Post time is 12:50 p.m. This year’s Far Hills Races will feature many of the best American jumpers, as well as…

©Tod Marks O’Brien, who has deep roots in the sport, will fill the role of assistant racing secretary, working alongside longtime director or racing and racing secretary Bill Gallo. A name familiar to many in the steeplechase community has been tapped for the newly created position of assistant racing secretary for the National Steeplechase Association,…

©Tod Marks The National Steeplechase Association kicked off its fall calendar on Saturday with a six-race $160,000 card in Hunt Valley, Md., and the star of the show was a horse who rose out of obscurity at Shawan Downs exactly a year ago to become the sport’s most exciting timber runner. When Dolly Fisher’s 2023…