Channel Archives: Racing

"Folks talk about ‘second Man o’ Wars’. There ain’t any 'second Man o’ Wars'. This is the greatest hoss of them all. Nobody will ever know how good he was—there...

At 5:30am on Monday morning, polo champion Nic Roldan and friends arrived at Gulfstream Park outside Miami to meet The Champ himself, California Chrome...and what an experience it was. We...

California Chrome was voted 2016 Horse of the Year, an honor which he also won in 2014, at the 46th Annual Eclipse Awards ceremony at Gulfstream Park Racing & Casino...

The Al Fahidi Fort is named after Dubai's oldest structure, built in 1787, and the winner of this year's 7-furlong Group 2 feature was 6-year-old Championship, oldest among the top...

Local favorite Reynaldothewizard proved there is still some magic left in his 11-year-old hooves as he poofed away his competitors to win his third consecutive 3/4-mile Dubawi Stakes trophy on the...

If "April is the cruelest month", as T.S. Eliot famously wrote, then January may be the coolest month for horse racing fans, and not just because of the plunging temperatures....

Join Linda Finstad on an extraordinary photographic journey into the "back stretch" in her new book The Humans of Horse Racing. Discover the inner sanctum of racing, strictly off limits to the public,...

The life of a broodmare manager is not a glamorous one, which means that the life of the significant other to a broodmare manager isn’t either. Sun up to sundown...

In the loaded world of sports, rarely does a horse breakthrough to mainstream acclaim. To draw the general public's waning attention away from the daily deluge of hot takes and sensationalized sound...

It is difficult to tell the claimers from the Derby champions as they press against their paddock fences hoping to seduce the passing tour into parting with just a few...

Driving into Lane's End Farm is a bit of challenge. Between the impossibly green pastures stretching into the horizon, jaw-dropping barns and world class horses turned out in every direction,...

California Chrome is heading to stud in 2017 and will stand for a fee of $40,000, Taylor Made Farm's Duncan Taylor announced on Tuesday. The 5-year-old will remain in training through...

The crowd was ready. Packed into every nook and cranny of the Santa Anita grandstand on Saturday to witness America's horse, their horse, take his rightful place in the winner's circle...

I'm not a blueblood. At least not in the racing industry. My father was not a famous trainer. My mother did not own Secretariat. My brother has never tacked up...

Gary Stevens has seen some things. The kinds of things only visible from the saddle in a career spanning nearly four decades and 28,700 races. But in Friday's Breeders' Cup...

Two days, 13 races, hundreds of the world's top thoroughbreds, jockeys and trainers all competing on one track with $26 million up for grabs. It's thoroughbred racing's grandest stage. It's...

The Breeders’ Cup is the equivalent of the Super Bowl and Christmas combined for horse racing fans. The motto of the Breeders’ Cup is “the best is yet to come”, and...

Two days, twelve races, $26,500,000 in total purse money. The 2016 Breeders' Cup is ready to roll this Friday and Saturday when the world's best horsemen and thoroughbreds converge on...

The NTRA has its poll, and we have ours. And our poll is longer, stronger and righter. We are but a fortnight away from the Breeders' Cup 2016 at Santa...

Exterminator (1915-1945) Chestnut gelding by McGee, out of Fair Empress, bred in Kentucky by F.D. "Dixie" Knight Nicknames: Old Bones, The Galloping Hatrack Record: 99 starts, 50 wins, 17 places,...