Racing has been cancelled indefinitely at Santa Anita Park following the fatal injury sustained by four-year-old filly Lets Light the Way during training on the main track Tuesday morning. This...
It's the West Coast Cathedral of racing, as Belmont is to the East Coast and Churchill Downs is to Kentucky. It has hosted racing legends historic and recent, male and...
In his most famous poem cycle, T.S. Eliot writes: "The naming of cats is a difficult matter…" So, too, with the naming of a Thoroughbred foal who someday may carry...
Just a week after a triumphant staging of the 2018 Breeders' Cup, the Churchill Downs community and racing fans nationwide were reminded the sport can deal tragedy in equal measure...
The Breeders' Cup increasingly is becoming as anticipated an event as the Kentucky Derby. This edition had the added benefit of taking place at Churchill Downs, and that site's historic...
A full field of 14 horses will enter the gates at Churchill Downs at approximately 6:05 pm EDT to compete in the 35th running of the Breeders' Cup Classic. The...
Horseracing is commonly referred to as "The Sport of Kings." But Breeders' Cup Championship Saturday at Churchill Downs features more diversity than the current British Royal Family in both its...
After five days of countless early morning exercise rides, media events, Louisville partying rivaled only by Kentucky Derby Week, a mint julep (or two if you wisely designated a driver),...
It would be a pretty exciting day at the races if... Hronis Racing's Accelerate, current two-time consecutive Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (G1) Champion filly Enable, Qatar Racing Limited's Roaring...
To understand modern Thoroughbred racing and particularly breeding industries in the U.S. as they extend their reach abroad, you have to start with—Canada, and a head. Much of the entire...
With his four-length Travers Stakes win over Mendelssohn Saturday, Catholic Boy reaffirmed Saratoga's reputation as The Graveyard of Champions. The first three choices, 7-5 Good Magic, 3-1 Gronkowski and 5-1...
Fans who feared this year's Travers Stakes at Saratoga, also called "The Midsummer Derby," would be diminished by the absence of retired Triple Crown Champion Justify need not fear. This...
American Triple Crown winner Justify has been retired from racing. The announcement came Wednesday following several weeks of speculation about his racing future after disclosure the three-year-old son of Scat...
Hall of Fame jockey Victor Espinoza is expected to fully recover after suffering a fracture of his C-3 neck vertebra and what his agent Brian Beach described as a "stinger"...
Little new information is known about the medical condition of Champion Justify following the announcement earlier this week that the 13th winner of the American Triple Crown has been taken...
Swans glide across a large lake while a central fountain continuously sprays water. Spring grass is green as the eye can see in all directions. A peacock struts across a...
Justify completed the Belmont Stakes in a relatively slow 2:28.18—perhaps because he continues to drag along doubters. Not long after the big chestnut son of Scat Daddy became the 13th...
One is easily recognizable in jeans with his shock of white hair and ready smile. The other is a diminutive collection of muscle and quiet determination, on first glance known...
They will have to run the race before they give him the trophy—and the Triple Crown—but Justify has magnified historical odds by drawing post position #1 in Saturday's Belmont Stakes....
