As fans and media alike prepare to get their first looks at Kentucky Derby hopefuls in the coming days, you might notice some unusual coloring on the hooves of top contender Fierceness, the reigning 2-year-old champion and winner of the Grade 1 Florida Derby in his last start.
New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program is excited to host its 7th Annual Open Barn & BBQ, presented by Seidman Stables, LLC on Thursday, April 25 from 4:00 p.m.
Saturday proved to be a banner day for two of the sport’s premier athletes, while the human side of the equation produced equally stellar heroics. At the
What race for 3-year-olds has produced the most Kentucky Derby winners? If the past is prologue, recent history might help us solve the annual handicapping
America’s racing champions have come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, from the burnished copper magnificence of Man o’ War and Secretariat, the near-black beauty of the free-running Ruffian, the ordinary bay of John Henry, and the towering powerhouse that was Forego.
The Daily Racing Form reported Tuesday that Frankie Dettori has picked up the Kentucky Derby mount aboard Society Man, last-out second-place finisher in the Grade 2 Wood Memorial.
Repole Stable’s Fierceness, the champion 2-year-old of 2023 and possible favorite for the 150th running of the $5 million Kentucky Derby (G1) Presented by Woodford Reserve, made his first appearance on the track at Churchill Downs on a sun-splashed Tuesday morning.
Keeneland’s April Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale will begin at 6:30 p.m. this Friday, closing day of the Spring Meet. Click here for the online catalog and here for full-sale form figures.
Uptowncharlybrown has been a fixture among Pennsylvania's top stallions for nearly a decade, and last year, that long climb saw him finish atop the list by Pennsylvania stallion award earnings.
Nine new members have been elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. The class of 2024 is comprised of jockey Joel Rosario and racehorses
The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) is expanding the highly popular Saratoga Breakfast and Breeding Farm tour program this summer with the addition of a third participant, Sugar Plum Farm, to complement incumbents Old Tavern Farm and Song Hill Thoroughbreds.
Starting Thursday and continuing through Wednesday, May 1, Churchill Downs will be open free-of-charge daily from 7-10 a.m. so guests can watch the nation’s top 3-year-old Thoroughbreds train toward their engagements in this year’s Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks.
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) has announced a new national campaign, Safety Runs First, and corresponding website to promote the sport’s collective commitment to safety, welfare, and integrity.
Lone Star Park track announcer Jim Byers said, "First time is the charm for Christopher Elliott," as Ru More Starter crossed the finish line 3 3/4 lengths in front in the third race at the Grand Prairie, Texas, track on April 21.
Trainer Saffie Joseph told the Daily Racing Form on Monday that jockey Jose Ortiz will be named to ride Catalytic in this year's Kentucky Derby. Ridden by Julien Leparoux when runner-up in the Florida Derby (G1), Catalytic was beaten 13 1/2 lengths by Fierceness.
With a compact field of 36 expected this year's edition of the five star Defender Kentucky event, a total of four full Thoroughbreds are expected to tackle the three day eventing top-level competition at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington.
Donte Lowery needed a change. He had lost his mother, Nina Lowery Jackson, to cancer when he was still a teenager. He was galloping horses in his hometown of Charles Town, W.
On a chilly Monday morning at Churchill Downs, the action was non-stop at trainer Bill Mott’s Barn 19 as his Kentucky Derby and Oaks hopefuls Resilience (five furlongs, 1:01.60) and Just F Y I (five furlongs, :59.80) had published workouts beneath the Twin Spires.
Arapahoe Park in Aurora, Colo., will not run its traditional summer meet this year – that’s the conclusion from a special meeting of the Colorado Horse Racing Commission on April 22.
Tickets for the 2024 Breeders’ Cup World Championships are on sale now at BreedersCup.com/Tickets. Beginning Monday, fans can secure their place at the 41st running of the season-ending international championships, which will be held Nov.
I learn something new every time I read one of Paulick Report editor-in-chief Natalie Voss’ pieces and her latest one, centered around a doomed harness horse named Mitch Maguire N, taught me a great deal about how some state racing commissions operate these days.
ECL Entertainment (ECL) announced Monday that, alongside its joint venture partner, Clairvest Group Inc. (collectively, the “Buyers”), it has entered into an agreement to purchase Wyoming Downs.
After a state veterinarian voided a claim for Olivier, a full brother to unbeaten 2022 Horse of the Year Flightline, at Keeneland April 17, the 4-year-old Tapit colt has returned to breeder and co-owner Jane Lyon's Summer Wind Farm in Georgetown, Ky.
Coffee in Bed earned a breakthrough graded stakes victory Sunday when narrowly prevailing in the $200,000 Santa Maria (G2) for older fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles on dirt at Santa Anita.
Patriot Spirit landed the resurrected Illinois Derby in fine style Sunday at Hawthorne Race Course, leading at every point of call en route to victory by 5 3/4 lengths in a tour-de-force performance under Julio Felix.
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