Jon White

Hard to believe that 16 years have gone by since the great Zenyatta made her career debut and won a 6 1/2-furlong maiden race on Thanksgiving at Hollywood Park.

It was 50 years ago (Aug. 16, 1970) that Turbulator broke the world record for 6 1/2 furlongs by 2/5 of a second at Longacres near Seattle when he won the Governor’s Handicap for jockey Larry Pierce, trainer Tom Crawford & co-owners Farnsworth & Crawford.

While I was on Steve Byk’s radio program At The Races this morning, I talked about getting an autograph from the great Mickey Mantle at Louisiana Downs in 1980 when I was working for the Daily Racing Form...

Triple Crown winner American Pharoah and yours truly.