Juddmonte Farms has announced the Jan. 12 death of founder Prince Khalid bin Abdullah. No cause of death was announced though a statement says Prince Khalid passed peacefully. He was...
To recap the year that was, we asked horsemen and women from all spectrums of the industry to write a holiday letter to the year 2020. This is the third...
Happy soon-to-be New Year’s 2021! Before we let 2020 out of the barn, there are a few important stories and updates from this year you may have missed. Horse Racing...
The complex rules governing enactment of American law worked to horses’ benefit late Sunday night when President Trump signed the $2.3 trillion dollar COVID-19 relief bill into law. Included in...
The Longines Hong Kong International Races are four year-end Grade 1 contests billed as the “Turf World Championships.” They are the last of the year’s significant worldwide race meets and...
For the first time in history, three winners of all three Japanese Triple Crown races squared off against each other in the 40th running of the Longines Japan Cup at...
“All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story”—Isak Dinesen Steve Melen is a lucky man. He's a successful financial advisor and a likeable person. It’s difficult...
If you are in the news business, particularly sports and politics since the two seem co-mingled these days, you’re familiar with the term “horse race.” In politics, the “horse race”...
In moves that may pre-sage others, Spendthrift owner B. Wayne Hughes dug deep into his pockets as the hammer at Keeneland’s Fasig-Tipton November mixed sale came down—very gently—for $9.5 million...
He had just tied legendary trainer Ben Jones with his sixth Kentucky Derby win saddling Authentic at a spectator-less Churchill Downs Sept. 5, but Bob Baffert seemed more surprised than...
The Breeders’ Cup World Championships return to Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, KY later today and Saturday for the first time since their inaugural running at U.S. racing’s most picturesque...
“Don’t let it be forgot that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment….”—Alan Jay Lerner In the midst of an unpredictable global pandemic and a contentious American...
The international racing world turns its attention to Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington, KY this week for the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, Friday and Saturday. The iconic course in the heart...
I know readers come here to “lose” themselves in horses; for many of you to gain some distance, some relief, from daily stress, from real-life losses great and small. I...
Superstar European mare Enable will be retired from racing effective immediately. The decision by Juddmonte Farms and Enable owner Prince Khalid Abdullah follows her unsuccessful attempt to win a historic...
If you’ve seen the film Amadeus (…and if you haven’t, you should), there’s a telling scene about the writing process. Mozart, brilliantly caricatured by Tom Hulce, is visited late at...
The world was with her, the weather was not. French Champion Sottsass crossed the finish line first in the coveted $1.5 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1), but had to...
Swiss Skydiver gamely fought off a challenge from Kentucky Derby winner Authentic to win by a nose in a photo finish, becoming only the sixth filly in its 145-year history...
The first thing one learns in any decent journalism school is the first person singular pronoun, “I,” and its relative “me,” have no place in your work. The journalist is...
It’s rare when the Preakness gets as much attention as the Kentucky Derby and more than the now long-ago Belmont Stakes. But that’s what happens when the middle jewel in...
