“He’s going to die any minute now,” a college classmate of mine said in 1994, when the Chilean poet Nicanor Parra had just turned eighty and we were eighteen. I asked if the poet was sick or something ...

He's been called the "Ghost of Barbaro". Already, people are clamoring to see him run his first race. His name is Nicanor—and he might be the savior horse racing has been looking for. Nicanor is by ...

Trainer Michael Matz switched Nicanor to the turf for his fourth career start and it clearly suited the colt well, as he demolished a maiden special weight field by 15 1/4 lengths at Delaware Park May ...

Nicanor , full brother to the ill-fated Kentucky Derby (gr. I) hero Barbaro, will have to wait until another day to get his first victory following his runner-up showing as the odds-one choice to ...

Nicanor's maiden voyage was nothing like his brother Barbaro's. Barbaro romped in his maiden start at Delaware Park winning by eight-and-a-half clear lengths. Nicanor was 24-three-fourth lengths back ...

Adam Coglianese Nicanor won 4 of 18 career starts and earned $147,697. Nicanor, a stakes-placed runner, sire, and full brother to Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, has been pensioned to Old Friends ...

Maria Nicanor is the director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. An architecture and design curator and historian, she is passionate about public access to culture and rethinking ...