This year’s Kentucky Derby (G1) winner, Medina Spirit, collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack following a five-furlong training workout earlier today at Santa Anita Park. The announcement came...
"I've always found this a trying time of the year. Give me blizzards and frozen pipes, but not this nothing time, not this waiting room of the world.” —C.S. Lewis...
What turned out to be a slam dunk began as a what-if as a stellar eight-horse field lined up in Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) at Del Mar. The storyline posed...
Thoroughbred racing has a new female star. Echo Zulu blasted out of gate 6 to assume a lead that was never challenged on her way to a hand-ride 5 1/2-length...
Fausto Gutierrez is a breed apart in the exclusive world of Thoroughbred trainers. For one thing, he’s the son of a lawyer whose family had no connection to the racing...
Godolphin’s Essential Quality all but locked up the Eclipse Award as Champion Three-Year-Old Male with a classy victory, wearing down a determined Midnight Bourbon in the stretch to win Saturday’s...
Whether you’re the kind of person who thinks the Daily Racing Form should be required reading or a casual fan who follows the sport only on Kentucky Derby day, you’ll...
This Saturday is Runhappy Travers Day at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, NY. It’s the penultimate Saturday on the Saratoga summer racing schedule, but the season’s ultimate day for...
One is a speedy front-runner. Another a stalker pouncing in the deep stretch as the speed withers. The third is a natural closer, saving a quick burst of speed for...
The Whitney (G1) is one of the major contests on the summer racing calendar. This year’s Saturday contest features a small five-horse field dripping with class. From the rail, it’s...
Both were foaled in 2003, a year when the respected Thoroughbred racing crop would include Sweetnorthernsaint, Bluegrass Cat, Lawyer Ron and Brother Derek among others. One was a son of...
Darley America has announced 2006 Preakness winner (G1), Eclipse Award Three-Year-Old Champion and leading sire Bernardini was euthanized earlier today at its Jonabell Farm at age 18 due to complications...
Coolmore’s Susan Magnier chose the name "Galileo" because she thought the world of the horse at the time of his birth. Even that grand expectation could not have grasped the...
Coolmore has announced Champion Galileo, a son of Sadler's Wells responsible for siring over a record 90 Group One and Grade 1 winners, was humanely euthanized earlier today at 23...
With Saturday’s win in the Stephen Foster, Godolphin’s four-year-old Maxfield upped his record to a stellar seven wins in eight starts. The son of Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) winner Street...
Spend any time around Thoroughbred racehorse breeders and owners and you will learn that some are among the most passionate and generous of all participants in any sport. Aside from...
As the United States begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans find themselves gripped by a wave of inflation. Home and gasoline prices are at their highest levels since...
According to a recent economic study, female jockeys who race modern Thoroughbreds could fare just as well on the racetrack if given the identical chance. The study appearing in the...
Following a glorious close to the Triple Crown season after Saturday's heart-pounding Belmont Stakes won by Essential Quality over Hot Rod Charlie, racing is being dragged back to compounding issues...
“A true champion is a true champion. They go fight and, win or lose, give it their all.”—Glover Teixeira As Essential Quality and Hot Rod Charlie left the second turn...
