This column highlights the performances of maidens who have made no more than five starts and who either sold for more than $500,000 at public auction, have siblings that are grade/group winners, or ...

Multiple graded stakes winner Tacitus , an earner of more than $3.7 million and a son of three-time leading North American sire Tapit out of champion older female and five-time grade 1 winner Close ...

For a man who delved into the lives of others, not all that much is known about the life of Cornelius Tacitus, historian of Rome under the empire. He was born in 56 or 57 a.d. and is thought to have ...

SARATOGA, N.Y. (WRGB) - The draw for the 150th running of the Travers Stakes was held Tuesday and the favorite will be right in the middle of the pack. The post position drawing for the $1.25 million ...

ELMONT, N.Y. — At a mile and a half, the Belmont Stakes is the longest road in thoroughbred racing, and on Saturday, Tacitus, a 9-5 favorite, made it a little longer. In a desperate race for running ...

Winning a Triple Crown race is a great accomplishment but not enough to make War Of Will the favorite to win the Belmont Stakes on Saturday. The Preakness Stakes winner was installed as the 2-1 second ...

Caillan Davenport receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Sometime in the 9th century AD, a monk in the Benedictine monastery of Fulda in modern Germany copied out an extensive Latin ...

Perhaps the most fateful decision in all of European history was made by Augustus Caesar, when he chose to fix the border of the Roman Empire at the Rhine. As a result, the region known to the Romans ...

The translation of Roman historian Tacitus’s work found its way to Lambeth Palace Library in London in the 17th century. The analysis of unique handwriting in an anonymous 16th century manuscript ...