Channel Archives: Racing

The sport of Thoroughbred horse racing is often referred to as a “numbers game,” and there’s certainly no better example than the Kentucky Derby. The historic “Run for the Roses”...

As horse people, we invariably get asked the same question this time of year: "Who's your Derby horse?" Whether or not you actually follow thoroughbred racing, or once taught an...

In a race that shaped up as a tactical challenge, Hong Kong 's leading jockey general Joao Moriera led Japanese runner Neorealism to the lead on the backstretch then hung...

The Kentucky Derby kicks off the Spring racing season and the Triple Crown in the U.S. in a mere week away and features an "any horse can win" theme this...

There are many events that have provided me much excitement in the racing industry. Covering big races and horses as a journalist, meeting racing people I worshipped as a child, and...

The sport of timber racing was profiled in last night's episode of 60 Minutes, bringing one of America's oldest, and perhaps unsung horse sports into the mainstream. Timber racing is...

On paper it reads like a coronation: a big-money yearling turned 2-year-old champion, and now the expected Kentucky Derby favorite fresh off Arkansas Derby triumph. In a sport that often...

If there were any remaining doubts about his greatness, Arrogate shot them down and cemented his still-youthful legacy on a rain-soaked track 8,015 miles from home by breaking last but...

"What a freak!" gushed Terry Spargo following the "Wizard's" most recent mesmerizing Carnival performance. But this Carnival is not a circus; it's the annual Dubai World Cup Carnival. Spargo is...

Arrogate, the current "Longines World's Best Racehorse", will defend his top rating from the number 9 post against 13 competitors in Saturday's $10 million Dubai World Cup sponsored by Emirates Airline. Fittingly, he...

Taylor Made Farm is bursting at the seams with over 500 horses, mares, foals and yearlings, on its 1100 acre breeding farm near Nicholasville, Kentucky. The colts and fillies born...

Favorites fell and new potential stars shone brightly as "Super Saturday" became "Surprise Saturday" at Meydan, re-shuffling the pecking order for the March 25 Dubai World Cup day. The biggest...

Timing is everything and with Super Saturday a week away, Godolphin put its best clockers in the post and came away with a royal blue flush—three wins in six Thoroughbred...

The image is seared in the minds of Thoroughbred racing fans. It's the end of the 1999 Belmont Stakes and as Charismatic's Triple Crown hopes fade to a third-place ending,...

This week's Dubai World Cup Carnival featured an unusual two meetings on Thursday and Saturday and more than one unusual finish. It's rare that winning three of six races can...

We all know change can be a good thing. That maxim was proved at the World Cup Carnival as Furia Cruzada changed countries for the fifth time, trainers for the eighth...

Not sure who to pay attention to this Kentucky Derby season? The Kentucky Derby trail is quickly heating up with less than 100 days until the Derby, and it can...

Blue was the color of the fourth meeting of the Dubai World Cup Carnival at Meydan Thursday as hometown equine empire Godolphin and its boys in the royal blue silks...

As the world’s richest horse race nears its inaugural running, it seems only fitting that the world’s best big-money rider would not only be involved, but have a major say...

Turning for home with a 1-1/2 length lead and a head full of steam in last year's Breeders' Cup Classic, it seemed like a mere formality that California Chrome would...