Down the Stretch for December 22, 2025

A look back at the ‘Uns’ of the year – the Unexpected, the Unusual, the Unsettling, the Unthinkable, the Under reported, the Uncanny and the Unimaginable: + Electrifying race calls from Pete Aiello, Frank Mirahmadi, Robert Geller, Chad Rozema and even... Conan O’Brien? + Horses that won at ridiculous odds + Crazy moments when race callers knew who the winner was....and then didn’t + A race where Attfield defeated Schwarzeneggar + A race at Gulfstream that Chevy Chase would have loved + A race at Parx when Mychel Sanchez abandoned any chance of winning to save a fellow jockey + The day a guy proposed in the winners’ circle then watched a race won by Please Marry Me with Put a Rock On It coming in second + The day Perry Ouzts set an insane record at Belterra Park + The day a jockey with the letter Zed went 4 for 4 at the Fort, then a jockey with the letter X went triple X at Woodbine + What did host Peter Gross do to deserve the wrath of Trevor Denman, Robert De Niro, the Godfather and Andy Rooney? + We’ve got AI musical tributes to Garnet Barnsdale, Ken Middleton and Randy Waples + Bad beats... we have two of the worst + And the race between good and evil at Mohawk