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...
Carrying heavy weight and perhaps his connections’ heavy hearts from Friday’s passing of former Godolphin stablemate Bernardini, heavy-favorite Essential Quality powered to the top of the three-year-old Thoroughbred class with...
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...
There are singular announcer calls in racing that have come to define the glory of the sport. Who can forget “He’s moving like a tremendous machine!” Chic Anderson’s unforgettable analogy...
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...
Okay, so in the Belmont Stakes (G1), Irad Ortiz, Jr. is out and off Known Agenda after a Thursday spill, Flavien Prat moved over from his Preakness-winning ride Rombauer to...
Three-time consecutive Eclipse Award-winning jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. will miss his ride on Known Agenda in Saturday's Belmont Stakes (G1) and will not ride for an estimated two weeks after...
With the Preakness (G1) in the rear-view mirror and the Kentucky Derby still to be decided, Saturday’s 153rd Belmont Stakes (G1), the “Test of Champions,” will test only eight entries...
As important and intriguing as is Saturday’s Belmont 153, the undercard also features the Ogden Phipps (G1). That race comes with a “Win and You’re In” automatic berth in the...
Officials at Churchill Downs have announced that trainer Bob Baffert will be suspended immediately for a period of two years. The suspension comes in the aftermath of reports earlier today...
Following a COVID-induced decline in 2020 entries and stakes races, Monmouth Park by the Atlantic coast in Oceanport, NJ will open its 53-day $6.15 million horseracing season Friday with…horseracing. That...
WinStar Farm announced this morning that Laoban, a leading second-crop sire, passed away unexpectedly at age eight. No cause of death was given. Bred in Kentucky by Respite Farm, the...
