The owner of Muth, the winner of the Arkansas Derby, said Thursday he's focusing on the Preakness Stakes after a judge denied the horse entry into next week's Kentucky Derby.
Effective immediately, Samantha Randazzo will no longer serve as The Jockey Club steward at New York Racing Association Inc. (NYRA) racetracks. Juliet
Champion jockey Jevian Toledo is expected to be out of action until late June after having minor surgery to repair his collarbone, while spring meet leading rider J.G.
Kentucky Derby (G1) favorites Fierceness and Sierra Leone will open as the second and third choices respectively in the Preakness Future Wager when the final pool opens Friday, April 26.
Ribble Farms, Michael Eiserman, Earl Silver and Kenneth and Dave Fishbein’s Honor Marie worked five furlongs in company in :59.20 over a fast track on a chilly Thursday morning at Churchill Downs.
With Distinction, a Grade 3 winner and veteran sire, died in Korea on April 25, according to Korea Racing Authority records. The 23-year-old son of Storm Cat had resided in Korea since November 2017, after beginning his stallion career at Hartley/De Renzo Thoroughbreds in Florida during the 2007 breeding season.
A Kentucky appeals court judge has denied Zedan Racing Stables' requests for an emergency hearing and ruling that sought to allow Bob Baffert-trained Arkansas Derby winner Muth to run in next week's Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs.
WinStar Farm reached out to Hall of Fame equestrian and Olympic medalist David O’Connor ahead of this weekend’s Defender Kentucky Three Day Event at the Kentucky Horse Park, hoping for a few pictures of the five-star contender Phelps so that the famed Thoroughbred stallion and breeding farm could follow along with this weekend’s action.
Voting by the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred and Standardbred Election Committees has been tallied and the CHRHF Class of 2024 is now confirmed.
The FWD Champions Day’s trio of Group 1 stakes races will be held on Sunday, April 28, at Sha Tin and it looks like a vintage renewal. Despite a formidable international contingent, the home team looks as strong as it did when they won the same three stakes races at these distances back in December in the Longines’ races.
Inbreeding has little effect on mare’s early pregnancy loss, a study from the Royal Veterinary College and Cornell University has shown. However, inbreeding does affect mid and late-term pregnancy loss in mares, reports Equine Science Update.
Foals that are produced using ovum pick-up (OPU) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) will no longer be eligible for registration with the Swedish Warmblood Association in Sweden beginning March of 2025.
When Emerald Downs begins its 2024 season on Saturday, May 4, a familiar voice returns to the announcer’s booth high atop the grandstand. After a two-year hiatus, Tom Harris is back at Emerald Downs where he occupied the booth previously from 2018-2021.
Bregman Family Racing, WWBD and Edge Racing’s three-time stakes winning No Nay Mets (IRE) headlines a field of 12 3-year-olds plus three also-eligibles entered Wednesday for the ninth running of the $300,000 William Walker (Listed) going 5 ½ furlongs on the Matt Winn Turf Course on Champions Day at Churchill Downs.
Hastings Racecourse is thrilled to announce the opening of its 2024 racing season on Saturday, April 27, at 2:30 pm PDT with a new schedule and some horseplayer-focused changes.
Headed by the renamed $2.5 million Nashville Derby (Grade 3) on Aug. 31, Kentucky Downs will stage six races worth at least $2 million apiece, including supplements for registered Kentucky-breds, at this year’s seven-day race meet.
The New York Thoroughbred Breeders, Inc. (NYTB) is pleased to announce Thoroughbred breeder and owner Vivien Malloy will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in the New York-bred program.
Susumu Fujita’s undefeated Forever Young (JPN) worked six furlongs in 1:19.60 over a fast track Wednesday morning at Churchill Downs. With jockey Ryusei Sakai aboard, Forever Young posted fractions of :14.80, :28.80, :42.60, :55.20, 1:19.60 and out seven furlongs in 1:33,60.
The start of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s June 2024 Two-Year-Olds in Training & Horses of Racing Age Sale and Under Tack Show have each been shifted forward one day to allow additional travel and inspection time for those attending Belmont Stakes weekend held at Saratoga this year from June 6 to June 9.
Charles E. Moore, Executive Director of the Wyoming Gaming Commission, was honored earlier this spring with the "2024 Len Foote Award" from the Association of Racing Commissioners International (ARCI).
The Kentucky Derby prep schedule is complete, so we'll be taking detailed looks at the horses that could fill the Kentucky Oaks starting gate with Andrew Champagne of Raketech and The Saratogian's Pink Sheet.
The Thoroughbred racing industry joined forces on Sunday, April 21 for the sixth annual PDJF Telethon to raise over $430,000 for the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund (PDJF).
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