BackTracks: Shuvee takes the Gold Cup
BackTracks focuses on Midlantic racing history. Today, Shuvee, the filly who, like her sire Nashua, is one of the few to repeat in the Jockey Club Gold Cup.
BackTracks focuses on Midlantic racing history. Today, Shuvee, the filly who, like her sire Nashua, is one of the few to repeat in the Jockey Club Gold Cup.
The De Francis Dash and Laurel Futurity were once among the nation’s most important races. That’s no longer the case — but you wouldn’t know that from the winners’ reactions on Saturday.
The Twitterverse may not have a character to spare for the Delaware Handicap, but racing’s history books — and Eclipse records — pay close attention.